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Synopsis: In Nablas on the West Bank, Said and Khaled, who have volunteered to be suicide bombers, receive word it will be tomorrow - the cell's first operation in two years. They're shaven and shorn, in black suits to pose as settlers in Tel Aviv for a wedding. Something goes wrong at the crossing, they're separated, and the action is postponed, long enough for renewed questioning of what they're about to do. Suha, the well-educated and well-traveled daughter of a martyr, challenges the action. She likes Said and has her own ideas. "Under the occupation, we're already dead," is Khaled's analysis. Fate and God's will seem to drive Said. We must be moral, argues Suha. Can minds change?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Hany Abu-Assad
Production: Warner Independent Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 13 wins & 15 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Metacritic:
71
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
PG-13
Year:
2005
90 min
$1,300,000
1,493 Views


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- What makes you cry?

- And what bores you?

What bores me?

- Like?

- Like life.

I don't believe you.

I'm sure that your life

is not boring.

Look,

I believe that your life is like

a minimalist Japanese film.

May Allah bless you.

Is it true that you're

Abu Assam's daughter?

They said that he was a hero.

You should be very proud of him.

I would prefer to have him alive

to being proud of him.

Our cause continues to live

today thanks to him.

There are many ways

of staying alive.

It doesn't depend on us.

The occupation shapes

the resistance.

Resistance can take

many forms.

But we should recognize

that we are lacking military force.

There are those who look for other

alternatives.

To accept the defeat

of our grandfathers?

The injustice?

This conversation

is going nowhere.

Are you coming back?

Hopefully.

Good.

Goodbye, night visitor.

Khaled.

Here.

Listen, Khaled,

why does your father limp?

During the first intifada,

they came into the house.

The Israelis let him choose

which leg he wanted to keep.

I would have let them break both of mine

before I would let them humiliate me.

It's incredible

how you much you look like your father.

Come, sit a while

and drink the coffee.

Tell me about it.

How was it?

What's gotten into you this morning?

Was it like the people said?

Forget it.

It's the past.

Allah took pity on him.

Said.

What your father did,

he did it for us.

Yes, but...

The world is changing.

Everything changes except Allah.

Now that's the truth.

Ah...

You don't have a future.

What a fool...

you frightened me.

When will you grow up?

Good day.

Good day, Jamal.

There is coffee.

No thanks, we have to go.

What can we do

if there is no justice or liberty?

There is no remedy except

to fight.

If we accept

that the strong would eat the weak,

we are no better

than animals.

It's unacceptable.

It's better to die

than to be the inferior ones.

He who fights for liberty

gives his life for it.

You will change all of this.

- Hi.

- Hi.

Hi, Jamal.

It's our turn.

In the name of Allah,

the merciful one.

In the holy book, Allah says:

"If they harm you,

they harm my people".

In times like these,

Allah recognizes the believers

and chooses the martyrs.

Allah does not love the unjust.

Allah speaks the truth.

In response to the occupation,

the injustice and the crimes,

and in order to support the resistance,

I have decided to sacrifice myself.

The only thing we can do is to fight.

For Israel, to live

with the Palestinians as equals

inside a democratic system

is equivalent to a suicide.

Neither does it accept the solution

of two states,

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Hany Abu-Assad

Hany Abu-Assad (Arabic: هاني أبو أسعد‎, born 11 October 1961) is a Dutch/Palestinian film director. He has received two Academy Award nominations: in 2006 for his film Paradise Now, and again in 2013, at the 86th Awards, for his film Omar. more…

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