I thought this movie was OK, but I did not in any way understand the scene in which the main character and his girlfriend were rolling around in the paint. Did this have any significance later on in the movie, or was it just an artistic shot or something?
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that's why i uderestimate this director
heshould have been a porn director.
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Curiously enough, what I don't understand is why all that goes after this scene was necessary for (until the last scene, that is).
Sorry Amos but I think your story was not interesting enough to make a film of.
do you know where i can get clips/screenshots of the paint scene?
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im not sure about the paint, but after that war there was a huge baby boom in israel. maybe thats why.
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Amusing for the first thirty seconds or so, but WAY, WAY too long. I almost turned it off out of pure impatience.
shareTypically I love slow paced movies with long takes and little to no dialogue. I'm a big fan of Werner Herzog's 70s films and I like some more mainstream movies with that style such as Deliverance, Das Boot, The Deer Hunter and Apocalypse Now. I also like Alien which never occurred to me as slow, but many of my younger friends seem to think so. Because I like slower paced movies, I'm really surprised I didn't like Kippur. It wasn't bad, but it was very dull and worst of all, uninteresting.
The paint scene was actually one of my favorite parts though.
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I'm glad someone asked about this. I assumed it was an "antidote" to the expected way of depicting Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year. Instead of being in shul praying, as most of the population is, this early-70s bohemian couple was doing the polar opposite, i.e., acting out their sexual fantasy.
I believe Gitain intended it also as a stark juxtaposition to war, as well as an oblique message of peace: That in a world without war, the pious go to pray, the bohemians have sex, the kids ride their bikes in the streets, all without fear of being obliterated.
*Spoiler*
There is a moment after the helicopter is shot down where he is embracing his friend(with the compound leg fracture) they are both covered in mud, and blood and his friend is grabbing him out of pain.
The shot clearly parallels with the shot of him and his girlfriend covered in paint and trying to grip each other.
Thanks, abark. I like the way the viewer doesn't need language to get this.
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Kol Hakavod (way to go), Mr. Abark. You are correct in that this scene is a direct juxtaposition to the mud scene; showing the good goo and the bad goo as it were.
Having been in the IDF infantry in the Golan Heights in the winter (1987) I can attest that General Mud will slow down and/or stop both men and machines.
There is another reason for the sex scene in this movie: it is obligatory to have at least one sex scene in every Israeli movie.
Israelis are very melodramatic and love shlock and I personally think shlock has it's place, just not in every movie. I also love sex and think the same for it in movies and in society in general.