Two friends, Palestinians, recruited for suicide bombing. The film captures the frustration of the Palestinian, the rubble in which they live, the pressure and the pain to survive.
Are there other avenues? Other means?
"If we're dead in this life, why not choose martyrdom and gain paradise."
A friend says: "There is no paradise. It's only in your head."
"I'd rather have a paradise in my head then live in this hell."
A kindly take on desperate people ... are they monsters? No, but the times are monstrous, and what we do to one another, in the name of national security, or whatever, and to get away with it, we have to sooth our conscience, and we do so by dehumanizing those with whom we struggle.
Films such as this remind all of us that people are people - wanting to love and be loved, wanting nothing more than a fair shake, a job, a family, and some reasonable hope. When, in the course of events, one group gains the upper hand and systematically denies such things to a lesser group, that group will eventually respond in kind.
The powerful group will always see such measures as insanity, but the oppressed group as martrydom.
I suppose both are wrong, but the decisions remain in the hands of the powerful ... the film raises the question: how can this be a moral battle when the powerful group has no morals?
