““Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.”” He took the hand and all the rest.”
Watched without sound in a train because I forgot my headphones, but the visuals sufficed—all the archival (heartfelt) footage tied in neatly with the (very personal) subbed narration. Great juxtapositions and dialectics—educational yet intimate & poetic +++
A speech clear as day at 40:30
Tenderest dancing at 43:30
Funny anecdote about a drunken failed coup d’etat at 46:00
This documentary depicted all the parts that come with resistance in such subtle and human way; comraderie, love, rage, humor, endurance and despair. I cried my soul out all the way through.
A movie anyone who catches themselves slowly getting desensitized has to watch—I doubt IDF(A)’s sponsors have.
You do not need to speak French to undergo this gruesome story revealing that survival is the root cause of love, or more romantically formulated, you can not survive without love 🌉
