In the Bible, today's Palestinians and Jews should be half-brothers, but the deep-rooted hatred and war between Palestine and Israel cannot end. In this kind of war that has been going on for a long time but has not expanded, and the strengths of the two sides are disparate, there will always be dead men. To use a metaphor that is not necessarily appropriate, it is like Jing Ke stabbing Qin. But nowadays, not all the dead can be as beautiful as Jing Ke. They may only know tonight that they are going to die generously, and tomorrow they will disappear somewhere with the bomb tied to their bodies. This is the tragic part of the weak against the strong. Justice and freedom, the dignity of life, there is always someone to sacrifice for, as a tiny part of the war.
But if a dead man is ready and sets out with good faith, only to find that things are not going according to plan, that is a terrible situation - everything has been left behind for a heroic death, only to be killed by a change of circumstances. Forced back to reality, it was frustrating, and the world became absurd.
Is it right or wrong for a dead man to consider his way of war? Maybe a dead man can consider taking another path to fight for freedom, maybe a dead man should fight for his dignity and the long-standing pain of the oppressed without hesitation, maybe a dead man is too weak, but—in any case , war is a fallacy.
For this film, there is a documentary atmosphere, but the movement of the lens is natural and not dull. The wide-angle shot of Said running through the street in the early morning as a dead man is unforgettable.
PS: Syed is a lot like a young David Duchovny.
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