Your thoughts on..... Spoilers

Just been reading this interview with Kathryn Bolkovac here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephenie-foster/talking-with-kathryn-bolk_b_926772.html

Of the training she received to be a monitor in Bosnia Kathryn said this:
"It was a disgrace; none of us had even the minimum knowledge or idea of what we were supposed to be doing once we got into Bosnia."

When I watched the film just now I felt confused about what was going on quite a few times (mostly because the scenes in which no English was spoken had no subtitles). But the scenes at the beginning of Kathryn's 'tour' / the start of her mission in Bosnia were confusing to me too; namely I had just heard who I can only assume to have been one of her superiors on the bus taking new recruits to their living quarters to state that the monitors' jobs were to smooth the transition between post-war and peace (or something along those lines) which is quite a broad and vague job role. Then there is a scene in which Kathryn meets some colleagues and meets a woman with injuries from domestic violence and the group of her colleagues are asked who wants to take this woman's case. The point I am trying to get to here (bear with me! lol) is that it didn't seem obvious what was going on and what 'taking on this case' would involve and as the viewer I felt frustrated (had I missed something? Was not having subtitles going to completely hinder my understanding of the film? Is it a rubbish film as they're not explaining what's going on? Will all be revealed later?).

Then after the film as I read this interview I wondered if the script and scenes were written to purposefully be obscure to reflect to the audience how Kathryn was feeling/what she was thinking about her new role.








Hmmmm puzzler. Bit of a puzzle.