Warren Mcdermott

This is by far the most physically moving film I have ever watched. It was uncomfortable to sit through the film. The director and subject of the film does a remarkable job letting the viewer into his world that is actively being torn apart by Israeli military forces and illegal far right settlers in what was his family’s village and surrounding farmland. It is gut wrenching, human, mundane, beautiful, and so difficult to watch all at the same time. I can see why it has been censored by the conservatives in this country. It is too powerful a film. If more Americans could watch this, we would be unable to continue our part in supporting the genocide and apartheid of the Palestinian people. I hope that more folks can see it for themselves. Feel what it is like to live in a West Bank village being subjugated and terrorized by Israel.

It was really a terrible movie. High budget cinematography with dumb writing and even worse acting. The story was lame, the twist was not really a twist because it is clearly spelled out by the characters over and over again being beaten to death until finally at the end of the movie after an unbelievable turn of events the director again literally spells it out for the audience as if we are so stupid that we need a written explanation of the “twist”. Oh and there are way to many “medical” scenes in the movie that are not just far from being believable but actually distracting because they are so bad. No one should give M. Night money to make a film ever again unless he promises to let someone else direct it for him. The only funny part was that Night apparently considers calcium deficiency a medical condition that big Pharma is actively researching….