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Movie Reviews of Gaza Strip
Movie Review: One of the best films on this subject
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a truely excellent documentary -- it holds its own as an example of the documentary form, in addition to being one of the best films I have seen about the Middle East conflict. I was expecting an ordinary style documentary like the ones on BBC or PBS, with a scripted narration in the background explaining everything. Instead, this film tells the story through the voices of the characters. The camera moves around the Gaza Strip like some kind of wandering disembodied eye, looking over peoples' shoulders into their lives. Longley must be the Invisible Man to get the footage he has....If you're really interested in getting an inside view of Palestinian life in the Occupied Territories, this film is a powerful and essential addition to your collection. This film is a little hard to find on video, even though it's had great major media reviews including in the NYT / Village Voice / Variety and been shown all over, including in the Human Rights Watch traveling film festival, which is where I saw it. Glad to see Amazon has it.
Movie Review: A haunting insight into the lives of Palestinians in Gaza
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this documentary at the Vancouver International Film Festival in 2002. I have been interested in learning more about the Middle East conflict and this provided a unique view into the lives of Palestinians living in Gaza. I was stunned at the level of hatred aimed at the Israelis and the incredibly difficult times that these people live under. Like most North Americans I get my news from CNN, BBC World and CBC Newsworld. I have yet to see anything like this documentary coming from any of these news sources. If all I had was CNN, I would believe that all Palestinians were crazed terrorists lining up to martyr themselves. Having seen this documentary, I now have a human perspective and an understanding of what creates the need for martyrs. I would recommend this to anyone wanting to learn more about the Palestinian side of the conflict.
On leaving the theatre I could see tears streaming down every face. It left me with the most hollow feeling of despair and anxiety for the all those in the region that desire peace.
Movie Review: uncomfortable truths
Summary: 5 Stars
OK -- first I'll say that this film was hard for me to watch. I didn't like watching it. There are things in this film that upset me a lot. There are things that go against everything I thought I knew about Israelis and Palestinians. I support Israel, free and democratic. I don't support the occupation of Palestinian land or Israeli settlements in WB/Gaza, and this film underlined for me why I shouldn't. Right now there are 100,000 pro-settler demonstrators in Tel Aviv saying they won't get off Palestinian land, that the land is theirs. But it isn't theirs, and God is not a property broker. The occupation has got to end if there is going to be peace.This film is a dramatic illustration of why that is true. As you can see in this film, every new generation of Palestinians that grows up under Israeli occupation is a generation that hates Israel, and not for nothing. Let's stop giving the Palestinians such good reasons to dislike us! Let's let them live, too!
Movie Review: Subjugation of a People
Summary: 5 Stars
The film gives one a bird's eye view of the oppression and subjugation of the Palestinian people by the Israeli government. This is made possible by support given to the Israeli's by the U.S. taxpayer. When the rock throwing Mohammed states that there is nothing left to live for one can begin to understand completely the devastated will of the people to continue hoping for a better life. The Israeli's have done everything in there power to keep these people down. Every necessity of life from water to electricity to land they incrementally continue to remove each of these things needed to sustain life and growth to the extent that the people lose hope and then react in the only way they can from throwing rocks to bombings. The recent movie "Paradise Now", well awarded, portrays the apathy and loss of hope by those seeking to reestablish their dignity and give justice to those who suffer under the oppression of the Israeli government.Movie Review: This is a must-see film
Summary: 5 Stars
If you want to understand the Palestinian/Israeli conflict you have to understand both sides. In the United States, we are constantly being bombarded with the Israeli position, and shown detailed coverage of the attacks on Israelis. Most of us know little or nothing about what life is like for the Palestinians on the other side of the fence.This film goes miles toward filling that void. I think it is the first film of its kind I have ever seen -- a verite documentary film set inside the Gaza Strip, narrated by real people telling their stories. The camera sometimes seems like it's just floating on its own, or inside the heads of the protagonists. This is a great doc, and well made. It's not simple, either -- it draws on layers of visual and audio meaning to build a portrait of the Palestinian people that is more intimate than we ever get to see.
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