A poor start then it gets worse
I have just watched the opening scene. What predictable out of date *beep*
opens with shot an innocent and sweet looking Jewish boy walking, shows a bag on some other persons body....boy looks at caged birds...suicide bomb sound is heard as credits open. It does not say 10 YEARS AGO or whatever because SUICIDE BOMBINGS have NOT been an issue for Israelis for OVER 10 years now. Thus they are creating a false excuse for whatever we see Palestinians suffering after this point. Okay so her Mom back home says bombings are constantly on the news back home. But her daughter does not say "Yes in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan etc don't blur the entire world into one impression>" would have helped.
The West Bank scenes look like they were shot in North Africa they don't look like the West Bank. Now the movie is using real video footage that was first used out of context by the Western media and now this film is using it in their own co-opted out of context. Very dishonest. It gives the impression of Palestinians celebrating violence the scene outside of a store involves fewer than twenty people. The movie is now presenting the Israeli media impression of the innocent settlers attacked by evil Palestinians. Those of us who know the behaviour of such people on a daily basis toward the Palestinians know who the real violent ones are. The settlers terrorised Palestinian villagers relentlessly they don't even let school children walk to school in peace without hurtling abuse upon. These extras are NOT Palestinians none of this rings true. It is a terrible film. Sorry I am ejecting DVD at 21:13.
May I suggest that Quebecois film-makers deal with the Apartheid on their own
doorstep. Less than 40 minutes from downtown Montreal are two Mohawk Indian reservations and after nearly 25 years since their uprising, Quebec and its politicians have not even linked their communities with a public rail link with Montreal. They are still kept isolated and cut-off. The Mohawks of Quebec know how the Palestinians feel.