Israeli Cinema
A couple days ago, instead of class,we went to the Belmont to learn about Israeli Cinema. Ariella's mom came in order to explain and teach us about the films. She showed us several clips, a short film, and then a full length film in order to give us n in depth Israeli Cinema experience.
First we watched a couple different clips from different Israeli movies. The first was Someone to Run With, a film with two connected story lines. The first was a girl trying to find a character named Shay. She shaves her head and lives on the street with her dog while trying to find him. The second story line is about a boy who has a mission to find the owner of a dog that was put in the pound. It turns out that this is in fat the same dog that the girl had earlier in the movie. The second clip was from a film called Time of Favor. In it, there is a nice, obedient, strong male soldier, a smart, successful Yeshiva student, and the daughter of a Rabbi. This feature film is complete with a love triangle, rebels, and hard choices. The girl doesn't want to be a prize and has a thing for the soldier. There is a point where she tells him about some sensitive personal experience that make her wish she lived in a city rather than a settlement. The daughter also states that the soldier sees the world in black and white while implying that she believes differently, In this scene she also flirts with him by playing with shadows on the wall. Scandalous! There was another movie clip that we watched where we find out that the father of two kids was killed by a bee sting. Both kids react differently, the boy is very introverted and private while the girl is slightly more open. The girl also feels guilty because he died when they stopped to let her go to the bathroom. Next we watched a short film called The Bus Station, where two religious women meet at a bus stop. One is Arab and the other is a Jew, they at first are very anti social but after a tomato incident start talking and realize they are more similar than they thought. At the end, they go back to their normal lives and forget how similar they were. The last thing we watched, which was a full length movie, was Late Summer Blues. In this movie a bunch of friends deal with the growing threat of the War of Attrition. Sadly the first friend drafted into the war is killed during training. In the movie his friends have to learn how to cope with this tragedy and figure out who they are as individuals. There is a couple who gets married, a radical who eventually goes to war, a singer, a pianist and guitarist who is killed at the end of the movie while fighting in the war, and a boy with diabetes who cannot fight even though he wants to. This movie is a very realistic portrayal of teens during the War of Attrition and what they went through leading up to being drafted and fighting in the war.
This tiyul was very informative and a great look at Israeli culture. My question is what was your favorite clip/movie and why?
A couple days ago, instead of class,we went to the Belmont to learn about Israeli Cinema. Ariella's mom came in order to explain and teach us about the films. She showed us several clips, a short film, and then a full length film in order to give us n in depth Israeli Cinema experience.
First we watched a couple different clips from different Israeli movies. The first was Someone to Run With, a film with two connected story lines. The first was a girl trying to find a character named Shay. She shaves her head and lives on the street with her dog while trying to find him. The second story line is about a boy who has a mission to find the owner of a dog that was put in the pound. It turns out that this is in fat the same dog that the girl had earlier in the movie. The second clip was from a film called Time of Favor. In it, there is a nice, obedient, strong male soldier, a smart, successful Yeshiva student, and the daughter of a Rabbi. This feature film is complete with a love triangle, rebels, and hard choices. The girl doesn't want to be a prize and has a thing for the soldier. There is a point where she tells him about some sensitive personal experience that make her wish she lived in a city rather than a settlement. The daughter also states that the soldier sees the world in black and white while implying that she believes differently, In this scene she also flirts with him by playing with shadows on the wall. Scandalous! There was another movie clip that we watched where we find out that the father of two kids was killed by a bee sting. Both kids react differently, the boy is very introverted and private while the girl is slightly more open. The girl also feels guilty because he died when they stopped to let her go to the bathroom. Next we watched a short film called The Bus Station, where two religious women meet at a bus stop. One is Arab and the other is a Jew, they at first are very anti social but after a tomato incident start talking and realize they are more similar than they thought. At the end, they go back to their normal lives and forget how similar they were. The last thing we watched, which was a full length movie, was Late Summer Blues. In this movie a bunch of friends deal with the growing threat of the War of Attrition. Sadly the first friend drafted into the war is killed during training. In the movie his friends have to learn how to cope with this tragedy and figure out who they are as individuals. There is a couple who gets married, a radical who eventually goes to war, a singer, a pianist and guitarist who is killed at the end of the movie while fighting in the war, and a boy with diabetes who cannot fight even though he wants to. This movie is a very realistic portrayal of teens during the War of Attrition and what they went through leading up to being drafted and fighting in the war.
This tiyul was very informative and a great look at Israeli culture. My question is what was your favorite clip/movie and why?
by Nichole Haynes
My favorite clip was The Bus Station. I liked it because it was short but had everything it needed and contained a strong message about a very important modern topic. It portrayed such a common situation in not only an obvious way, but in a very powerful way as well. The ending showed that peace was possible which left the message with very positively mood.
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ReplyDeleteI very much enjoyed the Late Summer Blues film, and I'm kinda scattered as to why I liked it so much. There is a certain vibe I caught while we were watching it, and it reminded me of shows I'd watch when I was younger. I loved the power rangers, and strangely it was this that I immediately though of. Both films had a certain degree of corniness that in my opinion adds to the enjoyment of it all.
ReplyDeletemy favorite clip was the two women at the bus stop. It shows the audience that the two cultures/religions can be nice to each other and even become friends.
ReplyDeleteI think the bus stop clip was very cute and showed that two different cultures can get along and be friends with each other.
ReplyDeleteI thought all of the clips were really interesting, but my favorite was the full length film. Late Summer Blues it was unlike most movies i have seen and it was very emotional and raw, but very good. I think it is a great movie, although pretty sad.
ReplyDeleteI really liked the bus stop video because it really spoke to me. If more people could stop seeing all the differences and instead see our similarities, I think the world would be a better place.
ReplyDeleteThat day I was sick and was not able to see the clips.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite clip was from Someone To Run With because it was so good that it made me want to watch the full movie. I liked that the girl was courageous enough to go out and look for Shay herself.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite clip was Stop because it was concise but really spoke to the prejudices and arab-israeli conflicts we see today.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite was the Bus stop because it really demonstrated current Arab-Israeli sentiments in today's Israel
ReplyDeleteI loved the bus stop. It was a really well done video that in my opinion did a good job of expressing some of the emotional complications of the Arab- israeli conflict.
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