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Miral Never Online free Movie Part 2
When we're not being told (literally told) who the Jews are and why they are here and how long they've been (and probably what they had for breakfast in the Summer of 1957), we are being shown archive news footage (some of which is really quite interesting), further highlighting the educational nature of the film. It is as if it were made for schools. In fact, if it was, it would probably make for a diverting lesson and a chance to put the books away..
It is also very poorly paced and edited together. All actions have a consequence which is usually, hilariously, immediate. For example, a nurse helps a group of soldiers escape a hospital and is remanded whilst they are still in view. Why not stop them leaving? A student worries that they have to marry their cousin. Two seconds later: "do you want to marry your cousin?" "No" "Ok then". It's a farce.
There are many more examples of this. Once the Arriaga-like narrative sees different characters introduced and then disposed of, with little time to care in between, we are then introduced to the titular Miral and see her life from small child to fierce young women. The problem here is that she is crushingly unlikeable, bigoted and selfish
When making a film about the Israel/Palestine situation, a high degree of tact and sensitivity is not only necessary and appropriate, but desirable. Here, again, Miral comes up short, with its evil Israeli soldiers, emptying people's bags on the bus like big school bullies. They snarl at crying mothers whilst bulldozzing their houses and pointing automatic weapons at their tiny screaming children. I'm sure things like that happen,
but not on such broad and simplistic terms. Films like Lebanon and Waltz With Bashir have demonstrated a great deal of humanism and Israeli introspection that is lacking here. The soldiers there are young people, scared and fighting for their lives after being thrown into the army. Not heartless monsters, but multi-faceted human beings, capable of anger and destruction, but usually through ignorance and fear rather than maleficence.
Good films aren't afraid of ambiguity or of complicated ideas. But Miral boils everything down to a propagandist and purely reactionary level, which is easier to sell and requires less understanding. In fact worse than that: it actually breeds less understanding.
