If the Hollywood elite had a spine and soul in tact, they would have made a documentary, not a dramatization, which is solely to continue shielding Israel from rightful accusations of crimes against humanity. Something is better than nothing, but this turns my stomach as well.
Yeah I agree. But then on the other hand, I feel so powerless to stop it. I feel impotent and weak up against the trillion dollar machine enabling it. So I understand why people make art when they feel like they can’t do anything else. And if a movie causes someone to start caring or doing more, then it was helpful. But yes Hollywood as an industry extracts and monetizes the world’s pain. Studios profit and no one does anything to stop what’s actually going on. And I agree that makes me feel sick (I felt a similar disgust when watching and then later reading the praise about Superman’s “pro-Palestine” message — which the filmmaker also directly denied).
I don't get your complaint. Different people have different specialities and platforms, and use them to gain momentum for the free Palestine movement. Macklemore and Kneecap do it via songs and gigs. Film people do it via film. It's all just small parts that add up to a big whole.
Saying "I'd rather have Hind than a film about Hind" feels to me like missing the point.
Partly because that's not the choice actually available - we can only have 0 Hind & 1 film, or 0 Hind & 0 film.
And partly because if we think of "Hind" as representing all the children of Gaza, who we certainly would rather have be alive and safe than a film, remember that silence is their doom. If people forget about them, israel will kill them even faster. They must be a the forefront of everyone's minds, and this film will help a lot. It will humanise, too.
Agree. There is something sickly problematic with this whole spectacle. It is performative. What is a historic standing ovation worth when the genocide has only accelerated since the ?! Are they kidding us? What would Hind Rajab want? Respect to the Palestinians who worked on it.
Sadly, we are a society with screens that replace living in a frightening percentage of our lives.
I agree with you on all points, and feel embarrassed to be a part of a world who is allowing this to happen.
Perhaps a stronger message at the very start of the film would have been to scroll across the screen all of the names and ages of all of the children we know about who have had their lives cut short by Israel. Let the audience truly feel the impact as these names scroll for way too many uncomfortable minutes before zeroing in on one of the tragic stories.
Why write, if you could do something meaningful instead, like stopping a Genocide.
If the Hollywood elite had a spine and soul in tact, they would have made a documentary, not a dramatization, which is solely to continue shielding Israel from rightful accusations of crimes against humanity. Something is better than nothing, but this turns my stomach as well.
Yeah I agree. But then on the other hand, I feel so powerless to stop it. I feel impotent and weak up against the trillion dollar machine enabling it. So I understand why people make art when they feel like they can’t do anything else. And if a movie causes someone to start caring or doing more, then it was helpful. But yes Hollywood as an industry extracts and monetizes the world’s pain. Studios profit and no one does anything to stop what’s actually going on. And I agree that makes me feel sick (I felt a similar disgust when watching and then later reading the praise about Superman’s “pro-Palestine” message — which the filmmaker also directly denied).
I don't get your complaint. Different people have different specialities and platforms, and use them to gain momentum for the free Palestine movement. Macklemore and Kneecap do it via songs and gigs. Film people do it via film. It's all just small parts that add up to a big whole.
Saying "I'd rather have Hind than a film about Hind" feels to me like missing the point.
Partly because that's not the choice actually available - we can only have 0 Hind & 1 film, or 0 Hind & 0 film.
And partly because if we think of "Hind" as representing all the children of Gaza, who we certainly would rather have be alive and safe than a film, remember that silence is their doom. If people forget about them, israel will kill them even faster. They must be a the forefront of everyone's minds, and this film will help a lot. It will humanise, too.
Agree. There is something sickly problematic with this whole spectacle. It is performative. What is a historic standing ovation worth when the genocide has only accelerated since the ?! Are they kidding us? What would Hind Rajab want? Respect to the Palestinians who worked on it.
Because nobody actually believes it’s a genocide.
Sadly, we are a society with screens that replace living in a frightening percentage of our lives.
I agree with you on all points, and feel embarrassed to be a part of a world who is allowing this to happen.
Perhaps a stronger message at the very start of the film would have been to scroll across the screen all of the names and ages of all of the children we know about who have had their lives cut short by Israel. Let the audience truly feel the impact as these names scroll for way too many uncomfortable minutes before zeroing in on one of the tragic stories.