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Beirut's beaches
Kieran 2022-03-23 09:02:26
Never experienced war. But the Lebanon painted in the film is exactly the same as the memory of the summer of 2007 in my mind. On the Beirut seaside, one side of the road is the blue Mediterranean Sea. Occasionally people swim, and the other side is people going to empty buildings. It is dark at night. Only soldiers patrol the side of the road and set up roadblocks. This place, close to the mountains and the sea, should be a treasure land, but the same war process of reincarnation for decades makes people have to sigh the fate of this land and the local people.
Extended Reading
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Anonymous soldier: What to do? What to do? Why don't you tell us what to do?
Ari Folman: Shoot!
Anonymous soldier: On who?
Ari Folman: How should I know on who? Just shoot!
Anonymous soldier: Isn't it better to pray?
Ari Folman: Pray and shoot!
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[from trailer]
Ari Folman: After the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, I lost my memory. Now in order to remember, I am looking for those who can never forget.