Who has seen the israeli movie " The Bubble" ? Did you liked it ?!


Question:

Who has seen the israeli movie " The Bubble" ? Did you liked it ?

I cried several times when I was watching this movie...Many emotionnal moments...A very sad story...

I was amazed by the interpretation of the character "Noam", and also the sister of Ashraf...

A movie about politics,love, homosexuality, Jewish-Arabian relationship, and about the absurdity of the war...

The delivery scene on the military checkpoint, when the doctors can't save the life of the palestinian baby...This scene was so harsh...And also many other scenes were very intense...

This movie really shocked me... Everyone should see it at least once...

And you ?


Answers:

Can I even begin to tell you how much I adored this film? We just had the US West Coast premiere here at the Seattle International Film Festival, and it was a great honor to be there, laughing and crying and frightened and turned on with all the other Seattleites, enjoying what I think is Eytan Fox's best film yet. I'm sure there are those who will disqualify our audience from commenting on THE BUBBLE just because we're a long long ways from Israel, and how could we possibly know what it's like there in that madness, and so forth. But I think that's the film's greatest accomplishment--it really doesn't take a side in the political struggle, just presents its story, makes you fall in love with all the characters, and if it's FOR anything, politically, it's something pretty simple and agreeable, like PEACE. (I'm not even sure the film is even so strongly advocating peace, come to think of it...it's more that the characters who advocate for peace are a lot more appealing than the war-mongers, and the film shows representatives of both on both sides.)

Now, I'm a Shakespeare enthusiast and promoter like none other, but the weird thing is until tonight I've never encountered ROMEO AND JULIET, in any form, which has really meant a lot to me. I've always thought it was my shameful little secret, my failure to appreciate the divine Bard. But tonight, I got it. And I don't think I responded so powerfully to this version simply because it's easier for me to get into the story when it's about two guys. My problem is that in R&J (and its descendants) I usually find the two lovers kind of obnoxious: naive, foolish, shrill, and immature (and even more repulsive when they're sometimes played by older actors pretending to be irritating teenagers). But in this Romeo and Juliet story, Eytan Fox handles the central romance so masterfully (and, for the straights among you, also offers a pair of sweet, funny, menacing, and touching straight romances as well) I think it would be impossible for anyone in the modern world NOT to be moved by the love story. Everyone in the cast is adorable, the friendships are beautiful, the many romantic entanglements make great cinema, the suspense had me at the edge of my seat, the pacing is flawless, and the ending truly cathartic.

I foresee two challenges for Fox and THE BUBBLE, both of which came up at our Q&A after the film--which Fox handled masterfully despite extreme jet lag. The first is that a lot of American gay audiences are going to have a hard time with the ending, in which Romeo and Juliet--guess what!?--don't live happily ever after. I think the ending is wildly brilliant, with its full-circle reference to BENT, but it's hardly the ending of ANOTHER GAY MOVIE. Oh well, I suppose gay Americans who aren't brave enough to face the tragic truth here can go live their own carefully cushioned little lives.

The other problem the movie may face is a little more pernicious, and it turned up at our Q&A when an attendee raised a hand (theoretically to ask a question, but you know how people are at these things) and said, "Oh, since you had the gunfire/bomb/terrorism on the one side accidental, and on the other side intentional, then you must really side with XXX, you dirty {insert ethnic/religious slur here}." I quote this person vaguely because a) the questioner got it wrong, b) responding to the question the director and interlocutor repeated the scrambled version and then got puzzled trying to unscramble it, and c) it doesn't matter! That's the whole point of the movie! Clearly, the violence on both sides is in the film--like the deaths of Mercutio and Tybalt in R&J--balanced, to be a double point of no return for the protagonists/lovers. That people (like our questioner tonight) are capable of bean-counting how many people were killed on which side, and was it intentional or an accident, and are we even yet, is the reason this terrible situation and this eye-for-an-eye tooth-for-a-tooth cycle of violence will continue forever!

Or, if enough people let down their defenses and go to this movie, maybe they'll see there is a way out...what would happen if we made love, not war?


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