You see, the absurdity of the moment is not only at this moment, but everywhere, all the time.

Hassie 2022-04-14 09:01:06

This is a story that can be guessed from the beginning but full of twists. This movie was made by me on a website for 0.99. Originally, I just wanted to have dinner and drinks during the happy hour on weekend nights, but I didn't expect to have mixed feelings while watching it.

First of all, let’s evaluate one of the most intuitive advantages of this movie: straight to the point, but also for the two protagonists, there is not much nonsense and just the right foreshadowing. The director's intention in the first half of the movie seems to be just to play a childish game where the audience can choose the camp from the perspective of God. How many people who made the choice at the beginning start to slap in the face in the second half? Politics, even a game, has never been the kind that can bring laughter. The long-standing racial confrontation over historical issues broke out, and the sanctimonious old lawyer took the initiative to ask Ying just to consolidate his reputation in the industry, and who can say that a young lawyer Everything you do is really out of justice without a little bit of wanting to escape your father's halo rebellious psychology?

Public opinion, politics, and law seem to be weapons in the hands of the two protagonists, but in fact, two loaded pistols force them to follow the established route. Seeing this, I thought that these were just two honest good people who were used as spears by some indescribable mysterious force, but in the end I realized: these are not two honest good people, just two not-so-bad ordinary people Just people. At the beginning, they all set out for their own interests, were angry with their own experiences, and competed against each other; but the closer they got to the center of the storm, the more they could touch each other's "boots", they actually reached it long before the sentence "I'm sorry" Understand - as the old lawyer said, you can't tell the victim and the victim's family that forgetting is also a good way, there is no "reconciliation" here. The last two lawyers finally sobered up, and the fair in Themis said that there were two seats from beginning to end - "no one can monopolize the pain".

When I saw half of the time, I failed in the history to make up the history of Palestine refugees in Lebanon. Non-Middle East people did not understand the historical situation and it was easy to see it in the beginning, but such contradictions did not stop there. In Lebanon, you see, the absurdity of the moment is not just now, but all the time, everywhere. The same victims - Tony and Yasser, may be two identical pieces, but they were painted with different colors due to fate and placed in two completely different chess bowls, black and white. "We can't walk a mile in other people's boots," but a better voice would say: at least touch each other's boots.

I will not extend the various conflicts in the main line of the story, but I can only say that the "war" in this court was very exciting. We became human first before we became people of country X. In this smoke, no one wins and no one loses. , which may be the best possible outcome of all wars to be achieved.

ps: The camera processing is flawless. There is only a set of shots related to the wheat field, which implies the ups and downs of the male protagonist getting out of his own psychological barrier, which impressed me more deeply.

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The Insult quotes

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