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Today, I introduce the film ”the other
son” that was filmed on location in Israel and Palestine.
This film asks what the ethnic battle is
through a bond of parent and child.
＜ 2. setting of the film ＞
Current Israel and Palestine are setting of
the film.
Summary of the film
-Production-
It was made in France in 2012.
-Contents-
This story opens with two families of
Israel and Palestine surrounded by separation barriers.
The Middle East conflict between a Jew and
an Arab continues for half a century.
Giant Israel strengthens the racial
discrimination, and weak Palestine increases hatred.
Still the two families were living happily.
One day, the parents know that there was an
accident at the time of the birth of their sons.
It brought two families conflicted feeling,
but before long two sons became ..…
Story
＜ 3. beginning ＞
Upper photo: sons of the leading player.
Israeli Joseph in the right side, and
Palestinian Yacine in the left side.
Central photo: a beginning scene of the film.
After this, Joseph takes an examination for
conscription, and the accident at the time of his birth becomes clear.
Lower photo: their parents.
Joseph’s parents in the left side, and
Yacine’s parents in the right side.
For the first time, they know the facts
that Yacine and Joseph was mixed up at the time of their birth in a hospital.
＜ 4. Yacine returns to his home ＞
Yacine returned home from studying in
France.
He received an inspection by Israeli
military and came back to his home in the separation barrier.
There were parents, an older brother, and a
younger sister welcoming him.
＜ 5. Joseph ＞
Joseph has enjoyed a freedom before his
conscription and has lived with a family happily.
By the accident that mixed up them, his
parents became not only other persons but also he suddenly belonged to fighting
enemy.
Furthermore, he lost his religious identity
because his mother was not a Jew.
Even if he desired to be a Judaist, the
rabbi pronounced that he could not be it.
Then he passes through a checkpoint, and
goes to meet his biological family of Palestine.
＜ 6. Yacine’s family ＞
Yacine’s family is invited from Joseph’s
family, and they go in Israel.
The older brother of Yacine refused to go
to Israel that he should hate.
＜ 7. at the end ＞
Each parent and older brother agonizes for
anger against enemy and despair, but each mother recognizes this fact before
long.
Two sons have a conflicted feeling with the
bond of parent and child, but they become friends while they are looking for
identity in adverse country.
One day, Joseph is stabbed by a ruffian at
a shore of Israel, and he come into hospital.
The older brother (biological brother) of
Yacine and Yacine came to visit Joseph.
Yacine: “I called your parents. They
are coming.”
Joseph:
“ My parents? Which ones?”
The film ends here.
There is the whole film of 1 hour and 45 minutes
in You Tube, and it is not in Japanese.
Sentiments
This film carefully describes "love of
the family" happening in maelstrom of the intense ethnic antagonism.
The accident of mixed up babies comes to break
the reliability of a source of conflict.
How much meaning does the difference of
race and religion that creates the hatred between Jew and Arab have?
This film shows that there is a hope in the
Middle East conflict.
About the Middle East conflict between
Israel and Palestine
Unfortunately, the reality is much more
miserable.
Therefore I introduce some helpful points
of the understanding of the Middle East conflict on the next time.
What is Israel and Palestine?
What did the Middle East conflict bring?
This continues next time.
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