Don't let history repeat itself

Anibal 2022-04-07 08:01:02

The story started from a very low starting point, and halfway through, I was still self-righteously speculating that this was actually a final destination with "crimes of human nature" as the highest foothold. I didn't expect the ending to be far more than expected. The director seems to be easy to take as the audience's psychological expectation of the character's image, and is happy to break this psychological expectation, and constantly let both sides switch between the victim and the "violator", so that you can keep thinking while avoiding falling into human nature because of sympathy and pity. The trap, and even deliberately keeping the audience neutral in the process, while blurring that position in the portrayal of the lawyers on both sides that should have been neutral, is an excellent design. The first deliberate humiliation was for revenge, the second deliberate humiliation was for reconciliation. Although that sentence was not uttered from the mouth of the Pakistani refugee in the end, the answer has already told the audience: no one can obtain forgiveness and apology on behalf of their own or the group's behavior and suffering, but they should all be punished by the world. seen. It is exactly that sentence: remembering history is not for hatred, but to prevent history from repeating itself.

The thematic core of the film is really beyond my expectations, and at the same time, the second "humiliation" is really the finishing touch for the film.

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  • Leif 2022-04-11 09:01:07

    Surprise. Very well shot. From the individual to the group, from the family to the society, from the present to the history; triggered by a small conflict, to the step-by-step progress of the court debate, social issues and racial issues are peeled off layer by layer. Several place names that I heard repeatedly in the news since I was a child have appeared in the movie, which can be regarded as restoring the truth. If there is a solution to all these problems, hatred is by no means one of them. Although it is suspected of political preaching, it does not hide its shortcomings.

  • Tre 2022-04-11 09:01:07

    A textbook example of how to start a war and how to reconcile a chain of conflicts. Really good shot. The pattern of the story and the attributes and connections between the characters are very delicately pinched.

The Insult quotes

  • Wajdi Wehbe: Wajdi Wehbe: No one has a monopoly on suffering.