I don't really understand why Peter decided to be arrested in the end, instead of staying in Palestine/Israel with Lisa? His contract was nil. But was it his overall sense of "justice"---about having accidentally killed that Nazi back in London? Like he felt he had to go back and stand trial or something?
What do you think?
It's never "just a film."
I just saw the film this evening, It looked like he stayed
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I saw the film last night (11/9/09). It was my impression that Peter decided to stay in Palastine.
shareAs it appears from an earlier conversation between Peter and Dickens (after he had signed Van der Pink's contract), Peter tried to convince the British that "it would be worth [their] while to wait for that ship to come out of Palestine". He indented to turn himself in to the authorities in order to grand Lisa an unobstructed passage to Palestine. Peter's final dialogue with the captain ("They think we are bringing someone they want out of Palestine" "We are - me!"), only confirms this, IMO.
shareyeah, he turned himself in.
But the Brit had told him that he'd get an easy sentence, and he would, and then there would be the possibility of his return to israel and reuniting with Lisa.
i'm with you on this one....it's a heart breaker. i feel it's his sense of justice. great film...so darn under-rated. oh, you are on the mark about it's never a just a film!
shareAs far as I could tell he did not stay with Lisa in Palestine. I was quite disappointed.
I was also disappointed that what was done to her medically was never really explained.
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He did not stay.
I thought it was pretty clear that he sacrificed himself in order to get her safely INTO Palestine, knowing that the boat on the way out would be subject to being stopped by the British.
Earlier it was said, yes, you can get TO Palestine, but it's getting out that's the problem, once you get outside the 3-mile Palestinian legal limit and you are in international waters where the British patrol and can stop the boat.
The skipper got him and the girl there, in spite of doing his own surprise gun running that Peter did not expect.
But the British boat saw them come into shore. And if Peter sacrifices himself to the British on the way out, then the skipper of the boat gets away to bring more people--or whatever guns--into Palestine later.
Peter made the supreme sacrifice for love. He was honorable. Peter made the deal with the British agent before they left--that if they left the boat alone (we saw the British boat turn away from them when they were out in open waters, with Dickens on the bridge, because Dickens was waiting for them to come back OUT with four wanted people Peter promised to deliver into his hands.)
The British patrol boat even went as far as to chase away the other gun running boat that was firing on Peter's boat--so Peter's boat could make it all the way in.
The only trick Peter played was that it was him--and not the four earlier mentioned people headed for a secret meeting.
But Dickens got his man. Peter made good.
Whether he went back to Palestine after his prison sentence in Britain, we don't know. But I think it was left to us to think perhaps so--after all Dickens told him the British courts were not going to go very hard on a Dutch policeman who accidentally killed an ex-Nazi white slave trader (!!!) by pushing him and having him fall on his own knife.
Peter easily could go back to Palestine/Israel later.