As far as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is concerned in the Middle East, its scope of influence is no longer limited to two countries. It has expanded to two kinds of beliefs and has become a historical legacy that cannot be easily erased. This scar is sensitive and sensitive to the people in the Middle East. incurable.
Tony and Arthur, a Lebanese believe in Christianity, a Palestinian believe in Islam, Arthur is a refugee who fled to Lebanon, Palestinians have become "blacks" in Europe, they have their own nationality, but lost their homeland, Because of the war, he became a helpless "foreigner". He insisted on his own principles and made a forbearance in this country. He was portrayed in the movie as a character that easily aroused the sympathy of the audience. He was not good at speaking and was serious and responsible for his work; Tony , reckless behavior, fierce rhetoric, and strong muscles, the two of them have a great contrast from image to character. This contrast unnaturally makes the audience gravitate towards "Palestine refugees" in their hearts. This is also the director, as a film The Lebanese do it on purpose, and this contrast can make what the director really wants to convey to the audience more strongly.
The father-daughter relationship between the plaintiff's attorney and the defendant's attorney is the fun part of the movie, making serious questions well-paced because of this diminutive, witty language. The daughter said, "Dad, for you, every time you go to court is a battle." The strong confrontational thinking is too aggressive for a generation that has not experienced war. The father's original intention was to resist, while the daughter's original intention was Protect.
The daughter's high heels and beauty, Tony's wife's strength, Arthur's wife's compromise, the female power in this film is also worthy of attention. In addition to the lawyer's daughter, the wives of the two protagonists are always on the periphery of the war. Their cries revolve around their husbands. The husband's war is a man's war, with scars, humiliation, hatred, and women are the weak in this world. But what is interesting is that this young female lawyer, with white skin, beauty, and business appearance, her stubbornness and resistance allude to the director's imagination of the image of a new woman, her tears when defending, and her seemingly ruthless privacy to others in court. Unveiled, hard and soft all at one, they are rising as men's captivating, non-humorous, non-tough yin and yang images.
Finally, when it comes to ideology, this is a film made by Lebanese for Lebanese. The big suspense left in the film is Tony's childhood memories, the massacre of native Lebanese villages by Palestinian militia groups, and the words of the lawyer's father are deafening "Who is not in pain?" What?", this is what the director really wants to make the audience reflect on. Refugees are victims in the megaphone, while those in their own country are forgotten.
The verdict was innocent, but the film's narrative center is actually Tony, a refugee from his own country. This kind of reflection on the war, the banner of advocating peace and understanding is actually the director's sympathy for the victims of his country. Tony is the one who sprinkled water on Arthur's head first, and his words and deeds were rude. Arthur finally finished his apology to Tony once. The director's political obscenity, refugees should apologize to the people of their own country, but does Tony always owe Arthur an apology? Can his verbal violence be beautified and erased with a charitable car repair scene? His words are also based on hatred, but the root of that hatred is the generalization of the Palestinians, the Palestinians destroyed his homeland, and he hated the Palestinians. It seems logical, but Arthur happened to be Representative of this demonized Palestinian population, this is unfair to Arthur, and the acquittal is a legal forgiveness for Arthur, but Arthur's personal harm is ignored, both on a legal and personal level.
Arthur also needs an apology from the Lebanese. We live under the identity of the country, and we have hatred because of this identity, and we also have to bear the bad impression caused by the mistakes of individual citizens of the country. This is the price that recognition has to pay. The misplaced hatred is placed on people who should not be vented, and it stems from the memory of the past. This memory allows the hatred to continue and peace to come. One Tony wakes up, but there are still countless Tonys ignorant.
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