Western References and Revisionism in Hana Jušić’s God Will Not Help

God Will Not Help (Bog neće pomoći, 2025) unfolds across multiple planes of reality, where mythic and material worlds coexist in constant tension, shaping both narrative progression and character experience. This structural logic is inseparable from the film’s genre hybridity, which blends Western, historical, and social and psychological drama conventions into a Dalmatian-inflected reimagining of (American) frontier mythology. By analysing space, perspective, pace, and embodied practices, specifically of female characters, the discussion highlights the mechanisms through which emancipation, moral agency, and subjectivity in a restrictive community are staged. Situated within contemporary currents of revisionist Westerns and films centring on stories of women from female perspectives, Jušić’s work negotiates inherited genre expectations to produce a layered, postmodern narrative.

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