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Malek was shot directly in the head by the enraged policeman. At least it seemed that's what happened in at least 3 versions we saw play out.
I don't think he actually had the policeman's brother's watch. I think the policeman thought it was his brother's. He was so full of anger and grief that the sight of such a watch set him off.
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Malek bought the clock in Nablus (sh'hem) from a random guy (that probably somehow got it from the people/ terrorists that kidnapped and murdered yoni) , the clock was meant to be a birthday present to his friend.
The officer immediately recognized it on the TV surveilance screen and got all emotional, and after confirming that indeed it was the original clock of his murdered brother by the inside engraving we all saw, he drew his pistol and started questioning Malek about it.
The kid brother that was meant to stay in the car, saw the officer with a pistol in his hand and mistakenly assumed he was about to shoot malek (he didnt know they were undercover police officers and that he was questioning malek) , shot the officer, the other detective shot the kid brother right after that, malek was unharmed only shocked from the whole insidence.
We were supposed to assume all along the film that :
1. The drug dealer was killed by other gangsters (no, he overdosed)
2. after realizing that they were detectives, we thought they were corrupt
(no, they were just searching his appartment)
3. Malik got killed (no, the shot came from the kid brother)
4. The drug deal was driven by nasty gangsters, then corrupt cops (no, it was a police undercoved operation)
5. Dando the police officer seeked random revenge for his murdered brother (no, he just randomly happened to be there)
All loose ends gets binded.
Oh... the irony. the story teller is dead in the end (A young kid shot from a close range by a 9mm - not a good prognosis at all).
The Officer (Dando) gets also shot, both Nasri and Malik are actually unharmed.
None of us was it coming.
Great film.
Great reply! Thanks :)
Good luck in the Oscars..
Thanks for the sum-up.
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I however am pretty sure that Malek was killed. Our last view of him is with blood coming out of his mouth, so we have no other reason to believe otherwise. We do not know which person shot him (was it Nasri? Doubtful but not sure. A policeman? More possible).
I however could not understand why Binj flushed the real drugs and put the fake drugs all over his apartment.
My thought was he hid the fake drugs all over the apartment to mess with the cops, b/c he knew they'd be coming back, and he would be at his GF's home.
shareNasri was killed, he was shot to death on the spot by the undercover officer.
Malek was blinking his eyes and moving a bit, he was only pistol-whipped.
Binj did that because he was a funny guy, that was his funny way of getting even with the undercover cops.
If only he allowed himself to live to see it.
Just think about how funny that situation turned out, all those bags of dope, the cops grinning all over the place, "we knew it, we knew it, we knew it", but each time, they sniff the drugs and realize they're fake, and they keep uncovering more stashes of it...
There were a lot of funny situations in the film, but I think that people are missing the humour because of the heavy subject matter.
HK -
I think there are at least three of us on this board who believe it was Malek who gets shot in the end.
Also, some questions regarding the pocketwatch: 1- When and how is it established that Malek has acquired the watch (which is meant as a gift for his employer, I believe, not for a friend)? 2- When is the scene which you say an engraving is first shown? 3- When in the end is this engraving show again so that Dando definitively identifies it as his brother's watch?
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We first saw the watch at the :43 mark in the film, after Malek spent the night at Binj's place. Toma woke up Malek, Malek showed Toma the watch he purchased for Abu Elias, Toma flipped it open, but all the viewers saw was the watch face, not the interiour of the cover. Malek asked Toma to find him wrapping paper.
We then saw the watch towards the very end of the film as Omar and Malek and Nasri were driving towards the meeting place. Malek quickly opened the watch, and we were only quickly shown the watch face, not the interiour of the cover.
Then we saw Dando opening the watch and looking inside the cover, and the camera zoomed in, and we saw the engraving.
That was the only time viewers saw the written engraving.
The point of not showing how Malek obtained the watch and not showing the engraving until the end meant that we don't know the facts about every situation and our perceptions of situations are coloured by our own biases, yet we decide that we know enough about a situation to judge and we think we are "neutral" enough to pass the "right" judgment, but our judgments are absolutely wrong and heavily biased.
All the things haifakid listed re-enforce that theme - judging without knowing all the facts, and judging based on biases.
That theme applies to how everyone outside of Israel/Gaza/West Bank judges that situation.