There is a great
song in this movie that was on repeat for an hour outside the Debussy theater.
And then it makes a brief appearance in the movie. I didn't get sick of it
though. It is a quiet ballad that I believe is biblical in nature, though I
don't really know. I shazamed it and I have it saved in my phone.
Going into the
movie, I was told by Gillian that it is an anti-capitalist film. The synopsis
talks about "Dark forces" that were supposedly capitalism. But this
was not the case. The "Dark forces" were actually dark forces, not
just a communist exaggeration. This movie tells a complex story about a pretty
messed up family. The main character is technically the father but I think his
story is the least interesting. His daughter is entangled in some Palestinian
terrorism, and his wife is hooking up with one of her students. It is a really
tense movie, as you could imagine a movie about terrorism is. It is not
thrilling, but it's suspenseful. And the wife's storyline actually made me
laugh a few times. Not sure if it was meant to be funny, but juxtaposed with
the terrorism it kind of was.
