The view of the Israel and Iraq conflicts has been pretty one sided but the view of the other side is pretty poorly understood. This movie attempts to relieve some of that dichotomy and its pretty interesting for it.

Basically, its 20 hours surrounding the lives of two friends who volunteer for a suicide mission that gets botched. Certainly a riveting subject. Some insight into the people who surround these fairly believable people. The mother. The potential love interest. The people who convince those without hope that the best option is a kamikaze mission. All of them make for a very watchable movie.

I do hesitate. The movie kind of skims over the hopelessness that would drive one to such an act - but I don’t think it does it on purpose.  I kind of wanted the movie to explain that to me better - which was the draw for watching it in the first place.

Either way, a well filmed and excellently acted movie on a very complicated subject.  Worth watching.

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