Good movies about the Israeli Occupation / Palestine situation?

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Stealth said:
Well if you're looking for GOOD movies, I'd recommend not watching Munich.
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You're trippin comrade. That movie is ill.

WhiteDevil, peep "Paradise Now", if you haven't already.

Also, a movie called "Divine Intervention", which is about life under Israeli occupation. I haven't seen it, but I've been told its good.
 
Stealth

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I learned a lot from the movie, but I just couldn't get into it. The meat of the movie is hitmen running around killing people, and then the "cause of the Jewish people" is just an afterthought once they made an exciting movie. At the end of the movie when he's in America and starts tripping out hard over everything that happened, it was almost like Spielberg said "okay, well we made a bloody movie, now lets put in the scene where Bana reflects on his life and realizes that the actions of the Isreali's really did ruin his life and make him rethink everything he held dear to him".

I dunno...it just seemed like...telling the story about Munich/Israel/Palestine took the backseat to telling a "Stephen Speilberg movie".


Then again, I'd probably enjoy it a lot more the second time around because I wont be saying "what's going on, who's that guy, why is he mad, where are they now, are those guys Palestinians, how comes these other Arab guys are staying with the Jews in this 'safe spot', etc. etc. etc.". But I blame Speilberg again for making the movie not easily understandable unless you were alive during the Munich events.
 
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Stealth said:
I learned a lot from the movie, but I just couldn't get into it. The meat of the movie is hitmen running around killing people, and then the "cause of the Jewish people" is just an afterthought once they made an exciting movie. At the end of the movie when he's in America and starts tripping out hard over everything that happened, it was almost like Spielberg said "okay, well we made a bloody movie, now lets put in the scene where Bana reflects on his life and realizes that the actions of the Isreali's really did ruin his life and make him rethink everything he held dear to him".

I dunno...it just seemed like...telling the story about Munich/Israel/Palestine took the backseat to telling a "Stephen Speilberg movie".


Then again, I'd probably enjoy it a lot more the second time around because I wont be saying "what's going on, who's that guy, why is he mad, where are they now, are those guys Palestinians, how comes these other Arab guys are staying with the Jews in this 'safe spot', etc. etc. etc.". But I blame Speilberg again for making the movie not easily understandable unless you were alive during the Munich events.
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I knew about the what happened in Munich by watching a documentary some years ago, then to see the film especially near the end where he kills the hostages I really felt that. I think they should of focused alot more on how inept the germans were at that time in regards to their security and response.

I think it dragged on a bit, but also I think he did a great job with cinematics with explosions and gun fire, very realistic sounds/ effects.

I rate the movie highly and Eric Bana did well in my opinion.
 
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