I watched Shame at the Film Archive today. There were neither too many people nor too few people in the theater. There was a customary applause after the end credits were shown. It's really a wonderful movie for me, and I didn't expect such a masterpiece to be made in the Middle East.
I don't have the ambition to comment on the "Tear Middle East" macroscopically, but I prefer to divide the film into three levels, between Tony and Yasser, between the lawyer father and daughter, and between the people.
In the whole movie, I could not feel the confrontation and conflict between Tony and Yasser's national identities. The question of whether to repair the drain is a very simple civil issue. Yasser, as a very conscientious engineer in the eyes of others, decided to help Tony without authorization. Repairing drains while Tony's anger stems from the intrusion of the private sphere, perhaps due to the fact that Lebanon is the most "westernized" country in the Middle East. "I wished Ariel Sharon had wiped you out," as the plaintiff's lawyer put it, in a very personal conversation, traced back to the Damour massacre Tony experienced when he was six years old, and can be considered an unconscious blurb. Tony's apology at the end for Yasser repairing the car and Yasser in the garage also shows that the conflict between the two is not as intertwined as the political narrative.
The film does not explain where the discord between the father and daughter of the lawyer originated. My guess is that the two generations have different standpoints and concepts. The daughter, who had never experienced the war, went to the West to study with the material support of a wealthy family, and was naturally exposed to the idea of equality, becoming the leftist opposite of her right-wing father in the narrative (although I do not like to use left and right to label others). In this way, one of the focuses of the two people's court debate is undoubtedly the "boundary of freedom of speech". The daughter argues that what Tony said is an insult, while the father believes that if a hate speech that occurs in a private conversation needs to be convicted, then the thought also needs to be convicted. Are you going to be sentenced, and your dreams to be controlled? While watching the movie, I kept thinking of the Hate Speech Restriction Regulations passed by Tokyo a few days ago, to be frank, and I can’t give the firmest position on the ruling on the boundary of freedom of speech. Anhui people #￥%&” Hell Knight (.
In humiliation, ethnic, religious, and political divisions fall into the crowd. The strings connecting the Palestinian refugees and the Christians in Lebanon will be broken at any time. Just a few seconds of images and a casual remark, because of the religious and political attributes, can ignite the anger of both sides. When I was taking geopolitics as an elective in high school, the teacher told us that the root causes of all conflicts in the Middle East came from Israel and Palestine. Unfortunately, I just listened to this class casually, and didn't understand it further, I couldn't even think about it in my mind. To form a picture, what kind of pain and atrocities both parties or more people have endured, so there is no qualification to go to any group to make moral judgments, and can only dovishly pray for the end of the chaos.
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