In Israel, where all men and women are soldiers, a career in the military is a must-have experience for everyone. If you have no experience in joining the army, you will become a second-class citizen in social life-friends think you can't be trusted; recruitment companies think you can't fulfill your civic duties; girls even look down on you. In successive years of "fighting for the defense of the motherland," almost every family in Israel lost their loved ones in the war. Because the war covered the memory of every individual, it permeated the memory of a generation.
What kind of generation? Their ancestors were slaughtered and oppressed in concentration camps in Europe, and they took their families to hide in Tibet during the long journey of exile. Kibbutz collective farms were reclaimed in the muddy northern swamp. And they themselves are being hated by Arabs because of being a member of the invincible Israel Defense Forces, and they are being criticized and criticized by world public opinion. Where young people in Tel Aviv gather, they can often feel their unique temperament: being isolated by the world.
Today, what this movie shows is the massacre of Arab women and children in Lebanese refugee camps by themselves—the descendants of the Jews who were slaughtered in concentration camps. The picture unabashedly showed the murder of the bloody Arab women and children, and at the same time, it fiercely uncovered the scars in the hearts of the Jewish audience in the country-how embarrassing such atrocities are. Although the direct killers were the Lebanese Christian militia, and the Israeli soldiers did not participate in the massacre and did not know about the massacre beforehand, how could all this happen without the connivance of the executioner Sharons and the acquiescence of the top Israeli leaders?
In Israel, many ordinary families lost their relatives in the Lebanon War. Although they all know that their relatives are soldiers with weapons, how can they find a just cause when they see this scene again on the screen many years later? ?
The film bravely reproduced the scene of Israeli soldiers firing on Lebanese children armed with rocket launchers; young Israeli soldiers sang "Good morning Lebanon" all the way, eating potato chips all the way, driving a tank all the way into the tender scene. The scene of the tank turning around on the narrow road in the devastated residential area of Beirut is impressive: every movement of it will damage the surrounding houses; and every targeted attack will destroy nine innocent buildings beyond one target. As an "aggressor" who was on that tank, the director did not conduct moral trials or political judgments. He only expressed personal sadness and loss. As long as dictatorships and politicians are still keen on war-this is the root cause of war, the chess pieces on the chessboard will always have the fate of being moved.
As a person who lives in Israel, learns Hebrew, and has a group of good Israeli friends around, I have no convincing judgment on whether the film is "favorite". "History" can never be restored, and there is no truth. This is the advantage of making this documentary in the form of animation. The director's intention is not to tell people "a real Lebanese war", but to "express the war experience in personal memory". Therefore, the films we see have both real tragedies and complex emotions of the recaller. As the director said, this film is not political, but personal.
In a war, there is never a victorious individual.
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