O Jerusalem
Rating = C+
This film tells a piece of the
story told in Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins' best selling 1972
book Oh, Jerusalem. The film has low production production
values, or at least seemed to have when I saw it projected on a large
screen from a theatrical release DVD. The acting was also very
“basic.” All in all the movie seemed like it had been made
contemporaneously with the events being described.
The movie did a good job of providing balance between the Arab and
Jewish views of the events. It also reasonably clear that the major
colonial powers were continuously stirring the pot for their own
advantage. We saw the film on January 11, 2008, on essentially the day
that President Bush announced that he expected an Israeli-Palestinian
peace settlement by the time he leaves office, which would be 60 years
after the events shown in this film, 60 years of continuous
disagreement and often times open warfare: obviously there is no end in
sight for various world powers pretending to be interested in settling
the situation.
[2008-01-11]