Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Israeli Film The Policeman - Whose Shooting Who?

THE POLICEMAN is a contemporary Israeli film by Dir./screenwriter Nadav Lipid who has his pulse on what is stirring amongst Israel's Jewish young, beautiful & armed militants.  Lipid overlaps the story lines of an Israeli Defense Anti-Terrorist Police Unit and a group of young political activisits.  The dominant, narcicistic leader of the Israeli Defense Unit is Yaron.  Yaron is handsome, brave, virile & lacks compunction.  Married with a wife whose expecting their 1st child, a girl, is pragmatic about what they will not be able to afford. Yaron sways a terminally ill member of their unit to take the fall for the Unit's furtive mission.  Their targeted terrorist was killed and so were Palestinian civilians.  Yaron is seen admiring himself & seducing a 15 year old girl.  The members of the Defense Unit attend a funeral of a fellow Israeli soldier.  As they are leaving, they turn vicious & beat a young man for taking the flowers they had left.  The radical Israeli group's goal is a redistribution of the wealth in Israel. They are spear headed by the handsome, magnetic Nathaniel.  Also in the group is the beautiful, befuddled Shira who is entranced by Nathaniel.  The group convenes a luxury apartment belonging to Shira's parents; "they're pigs."  Walking to her car, Shira sees a band of teens vandalizing several cars including her's.  The leftist group takes a wedding party of an Israeli billionaire hostage, killing a photographer.   Nathaniel calls the news media demanding they arrive quickly from them to air their grievances or threatens more will be killed.  Yaron's unit is called in to rescue the hostages.  Shira uses her bullhorn: "Policemen, you are not our enemies.  You too are oppressed."  After the climatic shootout, Yaron is somber & perplexed that Jews are killing Jews.  Just who are the enemy is the underlying & overpowering message of this unsettling film.

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