what is the film about?
I heard it won the golden lion and it was directed by an israeli director.
I wonder what angel of view point did the director take?
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"I know it may be naive, but I like to believe that the film I made will open people's minds and that they will ask themselves who it is that we are," Maoz said of "Lebanon", shot entirely from inside an Israeli tank and written "from the gut".
Accepting the award from jury chairman Ang Lee, Maoz, 47, dedicated the honour to "all the thousands of people who come back from war like me, safe and sound... but inside the memory will remain stuck in their souls.
"I'm bowled over to be awarded this prize, the highest international distinction bestowed to date on Israeli cinema," Maoz told Israeli television after accepting the honour.
The intensely personal project tells the story of the first Lebanon war, reliving the director's own experience as a young Israeli soldier in 1982.
The viewing sight of the tank's gunner is "the filter through which I intended to tell my emotional story", Maoz said earlier.
I wonder what angel of view point did the director take?
What point of view do you think it will take? share
Most Israelis are Leftist in their politics and it is safe to say that most Israelis in the arts are super-Leftists. Ergo, it's an anti-war film. Never mind the fact that some wars are justified, as when Israel invaded Southern Lebanon to root out the cancer of the PLO where were rocketing and conducting terrorist raids on Israeli civilians for years without condemnation from anybody but Israel and the US, on occasion.
share“The viewing sight of the tank's gunner is "the filter through which I intended to tell my emotional story", Maoz said earlier.”
For me the whole story was about the gunner. It started with him climbing into the tank. We watched the whole film through his eyes. He wouldn’t/couldn’t shoot at the beginning; by the end he was blowing the sh!t out of everything. He also took control of the tank by the end - forcing the driver to get it together and actually drive. It then ended with him standing in the turret looking out at the field.
I really enjoyed it. As someone said in another thread - it isn’t a documentary.
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That sums it up perfectly. The Muslim world denies Israel’s right to exist; they won’t even play football against them for god’s sake.