Hollywood’s villains were once Russian or Chinese. Now they’re us – people from the Balkans | Ana Schnabl

Brad Pitt and George Clooney's new film Wolfs shows that while geopolitical realities have changed, western prejudice hasn't

I recently watched the new bro-flick Wolfs. In my defence: I was sick and therefore lacking in imagination. I didn't fall for the Brad Pitt-George Clooney combo, though, doing proper bro stuff - walking around in leather jackets, driving cars (fast), cracking egomaniac quasi-ironic jokes. If it wasn't for the portrayals of Albanians" and Croatians" and their rival mafias, I might have fallen asleep.

The Albanians enter the film as a bunch of hefty guys with guns; they're done away with swiftly, in less than a minute. The Croatians, on the other hand, are presented more elaborately, in a longer scene of a Croatian wedding party.

Ana Schnabl is a Slovenian novelist, editor and critic