Very affecting footage of course but I feel like you can really tell this was made by a “Palestinian-Israeli collective” bc it seemed to shy away from a lot? I was very interested in people taking yuval to task, especially hamdan, but instead of sitting in those conversations the film kept moving away from them, and I do think this would have benefitted from a more sincere exploration of his positionality. Similarly, I felt this shied away from a demand for…

Have seen a couple of takes that r like, “ppl heard the word ‘Israel’ and immediately called this Zionist rather than engaging w it”………. profoundly disingenuous critique imo. I’ve engaged w it and I still think it’s Zionist… now what. And btw idc that corbet has been pushing for US distribution of no other land. Who gaf… that doesn’t actually mean he’s not a Zionist?

There is seemingly a lot going on here but in reality not that much bc…

I say this not having seen that much bong joon ho/marvel, but this kind of felt like if bong joon ho made a marvel movie?? In the sense that it’s very tethered to liberalism through a neatly-packaged, unlikely-hero narrative. It’s simultaneously very loud about the very basic points it’s making (mark ruffalo trump impersonation for 2+ hours, which rly brought the whole thing down for me; and nasha’s they-were-here-first speech) and also doesn’t really explore much beyond that. What does…