Don't let history repeat itself

Anibal 2022-04-07 08:01:02

The story started from a very low starting point, and halfway through, I was still self-righteously speculating that this was actually a final destination with "crimes of human nature" as the highest foothold. I didn't expect the ending to be far more than expected. The director seems to be easy to take as the audience's psychological expectation of the character's image, and is happy to break this psychological expectation, and constantly let both sides switch between the victim and the "violator", so that you can keep thinking while avoiding falling into human nature because of sympathy and pity. The trap, and even deliberately keeping the audience neutral in the process, while blurring that position in the portrayal of the lawyers on both sides that should have been neutral, is an excellent design. The first deliberate humiliation was for revenge, the second deliberate humiliation was for reconciliation. Although that sentence was not uttered from the mouth of the Pakistani refugee in the end, the answer has already told the audience: no one can obtain forgiveness and apology on behalf of their own or the group's behavior and suffering, but they should all be punished by the world. seen. It is exactly that sentence: remembering history is not for hatred, but to prevent history from repeating itself.

The thematic core of the film is really beyond my expectations, and at the same time, the second "humiliation" is really the finishing touch for the film.

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  • Clarabelle 2022-04-08 09:01:13

    Winner of Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival last year, one of the five Oscar nominations for Best Foreign Language Film, a Lebanese social film. An uproar of ethnic and social conflicts caused by a small civil dispute. The play, director, and performance are all good, and it is a good work worth watching. The Silk Road Film Festival is on the right track for a film like this!

  • Ethyl 2022-04-07 08:01:02

    4 I haven't seen such a hearty courtroom drama for many years. I don't give 1 frame of hesitant editing. The blue-fire Gatling's speech speed and amount of information almost made me feel the urge to give 5 stars, but the third After the scene reversal, it was too warm and the main theme was a bit too warm, and it was not very smart to expose the scars of the country. Maybe the director himself did not want to do this.

The Insult quotes

  • Wajdi Wehbe: Wajdi Wehbe: No one has a monopoly on suffering.