Will make a point of seeing the movie

I would love to see this film, but my parents say I am too young

Israel seems unable to produce artists. the people with artistic inclinations generally lack the minimum technical competence required of artists. but of all the groups with artistic pretensions, there is none as infantile, fatuous, and narcissistic as the people who work in film. aloni is just another empty man with a cliche. he really, really wants to say something original. he wants to be esteemed by his colleagues. he wants to be reviled for his work by the people who love Israel. he has a hunch about what it takes to be considered "important," even in the absence of any discerable talent. but he knows nothing, believes in nothing and stands for nothing (aside from his career, for which he will do anything).

You made me want to see the movie (that I hadnt even heard of before reading this btw!)

drivel. I would expect this type of narcissistic drek from a 13 year old. Are all Israeli "artists" casting about for pats on the head from the "Euros" with this type of self-hating drama? P - eeeewww. Take your act to Europe where they drool over self-flagellating Israeli types.

I've seen the movie at the Berlin Film Festival this last winter and I must say that I found it horrible. It tries to touch the main subjects Israel and the Jewish people are traumatized by - the Holocaust and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but this is way too much. It doesn't deal well with any of it. It is a wanna-be pseudo-intellectual movie that doesn't know which way to go as it is occupied with so much message and morale. And the reaction of the audience at the Film Festival showed me that I was not the only one thinking like this.

I didn't hear about this movie, but afer reading the review I'm sure I will and I hope the movie is as good as the very well written review about it.

Though now I'm totally convinced that this movie will cause me to break into a royal shit fit. I'm already hating it! More "tochen" please!

In 1948, when the onslaught of the local Arabs had been in progress for over four months, and a month before the planned invasion by the seven Arab states, about, half the population still remained in the area mapped out by theUnited Nations as the Jewish state. Now began the fantastic phase of the exodus. A large part of the population panicked. Suddenly the countryside was filled with rumors and alleged reports of Jewish "atrocities." A highly colored report of a battle near Jerusalem became the driving theme. At the village of Dir Yassin, one of the bases-of the Arab forces maintaining pressure on the Jemsalem-Tel Aviv road, an assault by the "dissident" Irgun Zvai Leumi and the FFI (Stern Group) had continued for eight hours before the village was finally captured, and then only with the help of a Palmach armored car, which arrived on the scene unexpectedly. The element of surprise having been lost, the Arab soldiers could turn every house in the village into a fortress. Jewish casualties amounted to one third of the attacking force (40 out of 120). The Arabs, barricading themselves in the houses, had omitted to evacuate women and children, many of whom were thus lolled during the attack. The Arab leaders seized on the opportunity to tell an utterly fantastic story of a "massacre," which was disseminated throughout the world by all the arms of British propaganda. The accepted "orthodox" version to this day, it has served enemies of Israel and anti-Semites faithfully. The effect of the story was immediate and electric. The British officer who had done most in the years before 1948 to build up the Transjordanian Army, General Glubb Pasha, wrote in the London Daily Mail on August 12, 1948: "The Arab civilians panicked and fled ignominiously. Villages were frequently abandoned before they were threatened by the progress of war." And the refugee from Dir Yassin, Yunes Ahmed Assad, has soberly recorded that "The Arab exodus from other villages was not caused by the actual battle, but by the exaggerated description spread by Arab leaders to incite them to fight the Jews" (Al Urdun, April 9, 1953). Another quarter of a million Arabs thus left the area of the State of Israel in the late spring and early summer of 1948. Where they had the opportunity, the Yews tried to prevent the Arabs’ flight. Bishop Hakim of Galilee confirmed to the Rev. Karl Baehr, Executive Secretary of the American Christian Palestine Committee, that the Arabs of Haifa "fled in spite of the fact that the Jewish authorities guaranteed their safety and rights as citizens of Israel." This episode is described in depth in Days of Fire (New York, 1968). The Zionist establishment of 1948, in its eagerness to blacken the dissident underground, helped the libel along. Only years later did the Israeli Foreign Office correct the record (in Israel’s Struggle for Peace, Israel Office of Information, New York, 1960) and in an extensive statement entitled "Dir Yassin," published on March 16, 1969. An earlier Arab eyewitness account is a stunning refutation of the libel. On the fifth anniversary of the battle, Yunes Ahmed Assad of Dir Yassin wrote in the Jordan daily Al Urdun (April 9, 1953): "The Jews never intended to hurt the population of the village but were forced to do so after they met hostile fire from the population which killed the Irgun commander."

Ok here is the story of the movie : The main character in the film is an American Jew who enlists in the IDF and during his service kills a Palestinian girl. Following the incident he is institutionalized in a psychiatric facility which is built on the ruins of a former Palestinian village. The ghosts of the village try to communicate with the young man though a Holocaust survivor who is also a patient at the facility, forcing him to confront the past. I remind everyone that there were waves of attacks by arabs against Jews in “Palestine” throughout the 1920s and for example the entire Jewish population of Hebron was destroyed by Arab terrorists in 1929. So we could have made the same story in remembrance of the slaughter of jews by palestinians. Therefore let's imagine the same story but in the opposite way : an Arab-American who joins an Arab army to fight Israel, during his service kills an Israeli child, feels so guilty that he is institutionalized in a psychiatric facility on the ruins of a former Jewish village in an Arab country, where the ghosts of the village try to communicate with him through an old Muslim, "forcing him to confront the past". Unfortunatly 99.9% of the people in Israel's film industry are on the far left and we will never have such a movie which is not normal. I am tired of this self hatred dramas institutionalized by leftists jews. Forgivness is a stupid movie. When will we see on movie theaters screens the mass murder of jews by palestinians ?