The film begins with a clear blue sky full of tranquility. Without knowing about this movie, I thought it was a movie similar to "A Beautiful Mind", with a slow rhythm and philosophy. But then what appeared in front of me was a post-war depression. I predicted the depressing tone of the whole film, and then the heroine Suha, who was studying in France, appeared, and the hero and heroine met in this way. Suha, who was completely westernized in her thinking In the eyes of the Palestinians, it seems that rebellion cannot be forgiven by Allah, and the hero Saad is an extremely devout Islamic believer. In addition, Suha is the daughter of the hero Abu Assam, and Saad is The collaborator's son looks weird, but that's how love happens. When Thad was told to go on a mission the next day, I clearly saw a trace of panic in his eyes. When love has just begun, and life is beautiful and peaceful, who wants to die at this moment? But Thad agreed without hesitation. At the same time, Khaled was very excited. He fantasized about becoming a hero after sacrificing for his country and seeing the heaven and Allah in his heart. The comparison of these two people makes me think that the more one knows nothing, the more one has nothing to look back on. Having nothing is a kind of despair, but knowing nothing is stupid.
On the eve of the mission, Thad went over the wall to find Suha. His excuse to return the key was actually to see his lover one last time. During the chat between Thad and Suha, their eyes looked at each other for a time, showing a strong love, but Thad chose to avoid it, he may know that this relationship should not start at all. During their conversation, Suha asked Thad what his usual hobbies were. Thad said that if he had no hobbies, he liked to smoke hookah and came to the pessimistic conclusion that "life is the most boring". In Palestine, where all entertainment infrastructure has been destroyed by the enemy or themselves, war may be their form of entertainment.
The next morning, Thad and Khaled went to the basement together. When recording the sworn farewell video, Khaled sat upright for the first time, and Thad's seemingly calm eyes were full of helplessness and fear. When the video was not recorded well and Khaled asked to be recorded a second time, he was obviously angry that something important and serious to him became a little funny to the companion who sent him to death. During the process, when he saw his companion eating the pancakes his mother prepared in the morning, he couldn't help saying to the video: Mom, I know that there are water filters in XX that are much cheaper than XXX. Seeing this, I really want to cry, although the scene is very funny, but this is a real person, a person full of humanity, not a "tool" that blindly dies for that nihilistic ideal. When the first mission ended in failure, Thaad and Khaled became separated, Khaled returned to the camp to defuse the bomb strapped to him, while Thad was unable to find the bomb that the organization could not defuse. I want to choose suicide to escape. Desperate and helpless, Sadd came out of the bathroom. He said to himself in the mirror, "You can't change your destiny. You are a volunteer of Allah." He ran to the grave of his "collaborator" father and committed suicide. At this time, Khaled and Suha found him and brought him back.
After returning to the camp, Thad was quarantined and interrogated, and Aber Cullen said, "Go back, you ruined our whole plan." Thad told him his story without a direct request. When Sadd was 6 years old, he sent information to the enemy Israel, which now put Palestinians behind bars. And his father was also executed for collaborating with the enemy, all of which made his family live without dignity. Abel Cullen decides to let Thad and Khaled go on the mission again, but this time with a decidedly different attitude. Khaled has been awakened by Suha's words, he realizes that there is no point in endless retaliatory wars, and maybe they can choose other ways to solve the problem. On the other hand, Sade is more determined. I don’t think this is a fight for the country, but more about the redemption of the mistakes he made in his childhood and the restoration of the dignity of his family. He has no other choice but to die. And Khaled does not have as much burden as him, so Khaled chose to escape, which may be a "sleeping life", but it is better than a meaningless death.
At the end of the film, the camera slowly zooms in, and Thaad's eyes fill the entire screen. At this time, his eyes are full of calmness that looks like death. There is no sound, and the screen is blank. Maybe this is Thad's paradise without wars and killings. Heaven. The peace of mind that comes at the end in the process of accomplishing self-redemption.
After watching the whole movie, I suddenly felt that life is so beautiful, and it deepened my attachment to ordinary life and my admiration for human nature. For people in war, a peaceful life may be their paradise. Heaven is in everyone's heart, if you want, you are heaven.
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