Paradise Now (Click image to wach on Amazon)
Hany Abu-Assad had a difficult time making this movie. The crew had to survive a missile attack on one occasion and a location scout was kidnapped. The director said that in retrospect he never would have made the film had he known the violence he would face. Even more, it is difficult for a Western mind to comprehend the logic of a suicide bomber attack–why an individual’s beliefs would allow him to “self-destruct.’ Comment on how Paradise Now, by both character content and technical means, deconstructs or opens up the mind to help the viewer contemplate the “unthinkable’ decision to become a suicide bomber.
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