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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Extended Reading
  • Lee 2022-04-24 07:01:26

    Out of dignity and pain, we will not mention the great trauma in our hearts, and the experiences of the two male protagonists can testify. Are verbal violence and physical harm the same, and which of the two is more guilty of? In the end, the presiding judge's interpretation of the trial also gave the film and reality the best answer. The result of innocence is the conclusion of guilt on both sides of the Palestinian refugee and Christian party identity representatives. After the trauma of war, there is still a need for coexistence and understanding.

  • Terrill 2022-04-11 09:01:07

    Hope for world peace. Carmel Basha played really well, especially the scene where he angered him after knowing that the other party was a survivor of the massacre.

The Insult quotes

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