paradise Now

The Middle East is known for its ray of different conflicts. One that is most notable is the Israeli- Palestinian conflict, which has it, roots from the late 19th century to the early 20th century. The roots of the conflict can be link back to the earliest Zionist movement. During this movement, the Jews came to Palestine and started buying up land to build up their Jewish community. In 1947, the United Nations announce that there would be two separate states Israel and Palestine, in which this nor the Zionist movement set well with the Palestine Arabs, which lead up to the conflict between the two states. In addition to the conflict, the Palestine “terrorists” used a tactic known as suicide bombers that in which to this day is a controversial topic. Hany Abu-Assad film Paradise Now shows this tactic used by the Palestine “terrorist” from their point of view, that also sparked debate on rather or not its content and message was morally accepted and if should be nominated for an award. One could claim that Abu-Assad film Paradise Now shows them as glorified murders and promotes suicide bombs or that it shows both sides of the stories, but this should not take away Abu-Assad right of freedom of speech, in which he should still have the chance at winning the award.

Paradise now is a fictional film that shows two young men, Khali and Said, from the west bank town Nablus, who are set out to carry out a suicide bombing on the town Tel Aviv (page 4). The film is shown from the Palestine perspective, demonstrating how they feel about the suicide bombings. Kahled and Said were chosen for the operation, since they have been friends since their early years. The plan did not go as well the first time, when Said got separated from Khaled, ...

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...r has become an epidemic. We don’t need to understand it, we don’t need to excuse it….. No more. We need to end”(page4). This statement is not quite accurate, in order to end something you have to understand the situation at hand from both sides, and Paradise Now helps show this.

Abu-Assad deserves an award for his film Paradise Now. His goals for the film were legiemate and the message for his film can be interpret in different ways depending on how one views the movie. Like John Pavlik says, “… We’re not going to disqualify films because some don’t like its content”(page4). Not everyone is going to agree with everything present in the movie, and they are entitle to their own opinion but you cannot take someone chances of winning an award away from a producers. Moreover, that is what makes a good movie an awarding winning movie, the controversial attached to it.