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The best Israeli movies seen in recent years
Clifton 2022-10-28 22:29:36
Last year, the director of Cannes released another masterpiece during the biweekly. In fact, he is fully qualified to enter the main competition. After all, the Israeli brother and sister directors are already Cannes direct descendants. Since their debut, all three works have been nominated successfully. In fact, this "Litigation" is the final chapter of this series of trilogy. Many details in the play can be traced back to the plots of the first two parts, such as the conflicts between husband and wife mentioned in "The Lost in the Heart" and "Seven Days of Funeral." The depressing family atmosphere inside. Basically, the director’s author style has not changed much. The key to this film’s attention and success lies in the choice of an extremely favorable angle: the court. All the dramas are unfolded in this small repressive space. The setting of judges, prosecution and defense lawyers, plaintiff/defendant, and witnesses is full of strong metaphors of social reality. The scene scheduling of the indoor play was quite brilliant. At the beginning, I was very impressed by using the body of the lawyer as the scene of separating the husband and wife, not to mention the wonderful scenes of the witnesses being interrogated in the subsequent scenes. Secondly, the script is written quite close to reality. Although it is just a social news-like soap opera, the worrying suspense throughout it makes people breathless. The fate of the heroine made people sigh during the interrogation process, and the strong empathy coexisted with reflections on the current Israeli marriage system, moral religion, and patriarchal society. The director's handling of the passage of time is also very interesting. The capture of many details is imaginative, such as the appearance and makeup of the heroine, the mental outlook of the hero, the words of the judge and the lawyer, and so on. Finally, I admire the heroine and director Ronit the most. This charming actress has created a very credible image of a new Israeli woman with her superb acting skills: self-confident, independent, strong and unwilling to hesitate. This is also the main basis for my full score for this movie.
Extended Reading
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Viviane Amsalem: Why are you making me run around in circles? Why, Your Honor? Why? Why have I come in and out for years now and nothing's changed? Why? You can't force him to divorce nor to appear, and you can't this or that, and what about me? When will you see me? When I'm too exhausted to stand before you? When? If it were up to you, it could go on for 10 years. I could drop dead in front of you and all you'd see was him! But nobody is above the law. There's a God and there's justice and He'll judge you as you judge me. Mercilessly. You don't care about me!