In my memory, as early as 20 years ago, there was an English-language movie about the summer vacation of naughty middle school students, which was very popular in Hong Kong. However, the naughty students in the film are different from what you see in European and American movies. It was only later that news came out that it was an Israeli film. Back then, the information was underdeveloped, and Hong Kong movie audiences were not proactive enough, so there was a misunderstanding that all English-language films were produced by the United Kingdom and the United States.
In 2008, the Hong Kong International Television Festival had a special topic of "New Situation in Israel", showing 7 Israeli films, but the festival has 300 works, so there are too many choices, so only a few people pay attention to the 7 works. It is understandable that the topic "New Situation in Israel" did not elicit much reaction from the Hong Kong media. One of the 7 Israeli films is "When the Police Band Visits", which has won many awards around the world (from Cannes, France to Tokyo, Japan), and was later released in Hong Kong. Everyone wants a glimpse of Israeli life and culture. At this time That's it!
The Israeli film "When the Police Band Visits" tells that a police band in Port Alexandria, Egypt, was invited to a place in Israel to participate in the opening of a local Arab cultural center. How do you know that the band took the wrong car and went to a deserted place. They communicated with the locals in broken English, and finally a local half-old milf boss rescued them from sleeping in the wilderness. The Hong Kong Film Festival's programme manual said that after the film was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in France, the audience gave a standing ovation for 20 minutes.
Why did audiences around the world respond so enthusiastically to the Israeli film? I believe that everyone understands that Israel rarely shows goodwill to Arab countries (Egypt is located in Africa, which is actually on the periphery of Arab countries), so they are especially encouraged. Although the quality of the film is actually just mediocre, it is understandable that the award is still given.
The storyline of this movie is really simple enough, and the whole film is just about a few Israelis helping the Egyptian police spend a night. However, Israelis and Arab-Islamic people are feuding, and although Egypt is not Israel's number one enemy, it is also a matter of time for Israeli films to deal with this hot topic. The film is filmed with restraint and caution, and as a matter of course, the Israelis in the film are expressionless and speak very little. The director is actually quite smart. Since there are few dialogues in the film, and the film is often static, he simply emphasizes the image composition, the actor's pose, the color of the screen, etc., which makes the film's visual quality very prominent. Stylized, with respectable places.
It's a pity that the content of the film is really thin, and there are too few things that happened that night. The ambiguous relationship between the half-old milf and the band leader did not develop, and nothing happened when the young musician met the Israeli Huai Chun girl. The film is so indifferent, it can only mean that today Israelis have room to make friends with Arabs, and even show goodwill, but in the current environment and atmosphere, it is impossible to bear fruit. This film also shows such limitations. (Finish)
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