This discovery is quite interesting. So I re-watched the picture of the dinner, and it was true.
Of the 13, Said sat in the middle, where Jesus was. Unsmiling, he is portrayed as a savior in the film.
Although what he did was a bloody suicide bombing, I saw only love in him, love for family, love for girls, love for friends; but no hatred, at least not specific to an Israeli hatred. Perhaps he hated the sin itself, the sin of Israel occupying, driving out, and blocking his people.
And self-sacrifice. Not for Allah or some heaven after death, but through his "martyrdom" act to wash away the shame his father had brought to him and his family by being executed for "collaborating with the enemy". On a sublime point of view, he believes that through countless desperate and tragic loud noises like his, he can bring a little change to the future of his family and his nation.
The background stage that runs through the film is the dilapidated, crowded, and devastated Palestinian city, which is a huge contrast to the prosperous and prosperous Israeli city that Said sees in the final stage of the film.
This made me think, perhaps, the human bomb is the only fate of a poor Palestinian youth living in the occupied territories, and the only means for such a weak nation to fight against that extraordinarily powerful machine of violence.
I do not agree with terrorist acts, but I have great sympathy for Said, a lowly man.
The intellectual-looking leader (or think tank) in the resistance force can chew the pie as if nothing had happened at the "solemn moment" that the "martyrs" swore before they set off. This videotape full of oaths and righteousness is just a tool. While selling it for a profit, it promotes hatred, creates a paradise of nothingness, and recruits more human bombs.
What we should hate is violence, and the subject who exerts this violence to achieve one's own desires. Not only the Israeli decision-makers who have a strong military force and who will retaliate, but also the Palestinian extremist organizations that incite hatred and believe that they will send the other nation into the sea.
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