DeaconBlues' review of the movie "For My Father"
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 2:20 pm
I know, Dave has the "Dave Craps on Another Movie" thread and it is entirely adequate and appropriate for movie reviews, but I would like to ask the membership to at least consider and try out my idea here; a thread that is specific to one movie, and more or less limited to review of that move. Of course you can reference and cite other movies (e.g. "this reminds me of the original "El Mariachi" movie in that .....")
The movie I just rented and was very favorably impressed with is "For My Father," by Israfilms.
It is in Hebrew mostly with a few lines in Arabic, but the subtitles are readable.
The movie is about a Palestinian suicide bomber (Tareq), who gets a defectitive detonation switch on his explosive vest. He has to bide his time while keeping a low profile in Tel Aviv, and find a replacement for the defective switch so he can carry out his mission. Not an easy thing for an Arab in Tel Aviv, but he finds an electronics repair shop on a relatively low traffic street and has to wait two days for the special switch he needs for his vest. The owner of the shop, Mr. Katz, is of course a Jew, the very people Tareq has to kill. Tareq actually befriends the old fellow and fixes a leaking roof on the shop, while staying at the shop for the two days he must wait for the special switch. Tareq finds out that the people he will kill are also people, very much like his own people.
This is precisely the sort of movie I really like, it uses a good and plausable story line to keep the viewer interested, it does not use or need any overdone special effects, overdone graphic violence, or rediculous and unrealistic sex scenes. I like the fact that the "good guy" and the "bad guys" are neither all "good" or "bad." Sort of like REAL LIFE, you are forced to see that real people are so much more than the insane stereotypes that most movies push upon us:
Tareq is NOT a rabid fundamentalist piece of islamotrash, he is simply a man trying to make the best of a very bad situation. (Like a REAL person.)
Mr. Katz is NOT a xenophobic Arab hater. He is like a REAL person, also troubled with real problems, and trying to live out his life.
It was obviously done on a much smaller budget than most of the Hollywood trash you can get today and that makes me like it even more.
The movie I just rented and was very favorably impressed with is "For My Father," by Israfilms.
It is in Hebrew mostly with a few lines in Arabic, but the subtitles are readable.
The movie is about a Palestinian suicide bomber (Tareq), who gets a defectitive detonation switch on his explosive vest. He has to bide his time while keeping a low profile in Tel Aviv, and find a replacement for the defective switch so he can carry out his mission. Not an easy thing for an Arab in Tel Aviv, but he finds an electronics repair shop on a relatively low traffic street and has to wait two days for the special switch he needs for his vest. The owner of the shop, Mr. Katz, is of course a Jew, the very people Tareq has to kill. Tareq actually befriends the old fellow and fixes a leaking roof on the shop, while staying at the shop for the two days he must wait for the special switch. Tareq finds out that the people he will kill are also people, very much like his own people.
This is precisely the sort of movie I really like, it uses a good and plausable story line to keep the viewer interested, it does not use or need any overdone special effects, overdone graphic violence, or rediculous and unrealistic sex scenes. I like the fact that the "good guy" and the "bad guys" are neither all "good" or "bad." Sort of like REAL LIFE, you are forced to see that real people are so much more than the insane stereotypes that most movies push upon us:
Tareq is NOT a rabid fundamentalist piece of islamotrash, he is simply a man trying to make the best of a very bad situation. (Like a REAL person.)
Mr. Katz is NOT a xenophobic Arab hater. He is like a REAL person, also troubled with real problems, and trying to live out his life.
It was obviously done on a much smaller budget than most of the Hollywood trash you can get today and that makes me like it even more.
