Sunday, June 8, 2008

Paradise Now

Two seemingly normal guys become Palestinian suicide bombers and struggle with figuring out their role in the plan and their lives. They decide to do this almost impulsively (though one has issues from his past/legacy issues from his father that drives him to this) and when their first mission doesn't work out and they get separated, they spend the rest of the movie wrestling with the decision to be suicide bombers and trying to find each other. Of course, there is a girl who they are interested who becomes a sort of moral conscious for the film and asks them why this is even necessary. They feel that they are becoming oppressed, but when they start with the retaliations, they also become the oppressor, and she questions how that is possible. To be both the oppressed and the oppressor at the same time.

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