I recommend it and I’m from Lebanon. Very taboo to talk about the events of the war, so even seeing it from the enemy’s perspective is something to pay attention to. I broadly think the regret is real in this movie, and the whole story is about how atrocities are made so mundane that everyone in the story is an unreliable narrator anyway.

Would I call him a good guy? I don’t think I have any reason to think I can. I fucking want to. I want everyone to be redeemable. But the more I learn about their society the more I realize I have no idea how deep the ideology of death goes. He may be among the most regretful, most willing people to actually dismantle the system of genocide, and still not fully see us as people who are his equal. I don’t know.

The scene the movie is named after is extremely moving for me. And it probably means nothing to someone not from here.

My takeaway from the movie as an anti war movie was, how thought displacement over traumatic events works in humans.

I don’t know if this is related to the being-doomed-to-repeat-history argument. And I know far too little about current or past war atrocities in the region. I don’t know if or how these can be compared.