Movie Review SSJ

I asked Mr. Ren, “Why does a country that doesn’t even have a seat in the United Nations have its own film festival in Boston for several years?” Mr. Ren said, “Yeah, that’s a question. In the film, the son, who is an architect in Italy, goes back to Israel to attend his sister’s wedding and follows his old father to deliver the invitations for a day, but the story covers various racial issues after the separation of Palestine and Israel, and all aspects of the Arabs living in Israel. One of the clips is when the son and his father go to his uncle’s house to deliver the invitations, and the uncle says, “You can come back to Israel from the United States, and you can open your own clinic if you need a doctor here?” The son is shocked, “I’m not in America, I’m an architect in Italy,” and the father’s lie falls apart. I’m obviously in Italy, the father said you do not understand ah, living here, people ask questions best answer with other people’s heart presumptions about the answer, or will ask more. The son said, “Then why didn’t you say I was a pilot” and the father said, “They don’t let Arabs be pilots. On the invitation road up and down from the new city to the old city and the area under construction, the son commented like an occupational disease on the overall planning of Israel, the old roads are congested, traffic congestion can not be effectively managed, looking at the thriving city is indeed everywhere garbage piles urban infrastructure is extremely poor. “That’s because the government doesn’t have a good urban plan, so that’s why.” “When the letters “It’s shit.” appeared on the screen, Mr. Ren laughed inappropriately and whispered to me that this person was especially like you. Well, this is a long story, our house decoration in Shanghai, with my mother stressed “you do not buy anything, no aesthetic things do not put into the house.” Mr. Ren sometimes wears clothes indiscriminately, and after being crushed by me a few times, he couldn’t decide what to wear and rushed over to ask me, “Can you wear this one?” I said I feel particularly good about myself. Another profound passage appeared twice, the old father to go to his boss to send invitations, the son instantly exploded “you know I do not like him, why do you want to invite him, he is an Israeli, he is a school spy, if he did not report, I will not go abroad. To go and deliver the invitation, you drive yourself there yourself.” It sounded like political persecution and exile, and this kind of surveillance of Arabs living in Israel was evident. The old father said, “You live in Italy and I’m here, what do you want me to do, he’s my boss.” The son slammed the door, the old father drove his car with a heavy heart, and then hit a pet dog. The son heard the sound of the emergency brakes and immediately turned around and came back, and the old father said, “Go, go, this place if they know we hit their dog, do not know what will happen?” This place must have stems, but I did not understand, understand only in Israel an Arab living less than a pet dog freedom. Come to see the film in the audience will be Hebrew, in the subtitles did not come out, some people laughed in advance, hey, completely unable to appreciate the thrill. The father and son drove to the road for the second time, the father insisted on sending invitations to his boss, after a heated argument, the son returned alone, was originally angry emotions were offset by a bottle of beer from a neighbor’s invitation, the neighbor described to him how proud his father was of him, usually praised by everyone, the father also felt that his son was able to live freely than he was in Israel, the son instantly began to understand the father, went home to boil water The father then came in and found the water boiling, then took out the coffee, plates, cups, end knife balcony with his son to drink, the father said “you’re right, the green cloth is really ugly” “but the sister likes it, right?” Smoking, drinking coffee, father and son understand each other to tolerate everything, the day will be late, tomorrow is a new day.

       On the way home, suddenly I felt very funny, did not hold back the laugh out, Mr. Ren asked me what I was laughing at, I said “is really very much like me”, straight, hope to use their own learning to change society, of course, from their own side to get up, do not insist on the original is a misplaced thing! The female director’s film was once selected by the State of Palestine to compete for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in the United States, because Palestine does not have a national “name” was rejected. The film condenses the story of ordinary people living in Israel and shows the differences in politics, religious beliefs and lifestyles.