6.5 points, it reflects the local culture, political conflicts and ethnic conflicts, nothing particularly impressed me, and the shooting is also very rigid, with some deliberate elements, obviously not as good as "A Parting".
The background goes back to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For reasons of national self-determination and humanitarianism, the United Nations passed Resolution No. 181 in 1947, deciding to establish a Jewish state and an Arab state in Palestine. The Arabs rejected this resolution, but due to the resolute determination and efforts of the Jews, After a series of difficult struggles, several United Arab countries failed to defeat Israel. According to the armistice agreement reached at that time, most of the original Palestinian area except the Gaza Strip and the West Bank became the territory of Israel. After that, Israel began to systematically expel about 700,000 Arabs from the country. Some 100,000 of these Arabs fled to Lebanon as refugees, but they and their descendants could not have Lebanese nationality. Searle was a refugee at the time, and a conflict arose between him and Lebanese Christian Tony.
As far as this history goes, I have nothing to favor one side. Although the Jews deserve sympathy, they lost 6 million of their compatriots in World War II. It is not too much to gain such a palm-sized land to build a country, and I have generally learned the details of this history out of interest. Restoration process. But for the Arabs in the original region, this is of course also a disaster. It is also very sympathetic to be suddenly expelled from a place where ancestors have lived for thousands of years and become refugees without a homeland. Because of this reason, the two sides became feuds, killed each other, and both did cruel and excessive things to each other. How can we say who is right and who is wrong?
In my opinion, this movie is a trivial matter, and it is a good judgment if it is matter of fact. But this matter was magnified by the ethnic conflict, everyone became very narrow-minded, and the entire court trial process was ridiculous, because the plot required, the lawyers of both sides analyzed all kinds of history and events that were not related to the case. After reading it again, I estimate that most of the audience’s mental journey of watching the movie should be that they thought Tony was unreasonable at first, and sympathized with Yasser. Later, they found that Tony hated the Palestinians for a reason, because the PLO slaughtered him. After the village, he began to sympathize with Tony again, began to cry, and choked up, hoping that the two sides would shake hands and make peace, put the conflict aside, develop together, and live in harmony. But this is too vulgar, and if Tony is restrained and forbearing like the latter part of the film, it will be inconsistent with such a narrow character at the beginning. From these aspects, I think this film is not very well made, but it is still worth recommending to the Chinese people to watch. It would be even better if you can learn about this history by the way.
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