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The Attack (2012)

Drama | 102 minutes
3,32 33 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 102 minuten

Country: Lebanon / France / Qatar / Belgium

Directed by: Ziad Doueiri

Stars: Ali Soliman and Evgenia Dodena

IMDb score: 7,1 (4.741)

Releasedate: 1 September 2012

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The Attack plot

Amin Jaafari is an Israeli-Palestinian surgeon who is fully integrated into Israeli society in Tel Aviv. He has a loving wife, a flourishing career and many Jewish friends. Then a suicide attack in a restaurant kills 19 and the Israeli police tell him that his wife - who also died in the explosion - was responsible. Amin strongly rejects these accusations, but his conviction is shaken when he receives a posthumous letter from Sihem confirming her role in the massacre. Amin will leave the relative security of his adopted homeland and search the Palestinian territories for the extremists he believes recruited her.

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blurp194

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I find it difficult to understand what this film wants to say. There are quite a few themes that are touched on - the search for the reason for the attack, the separation between man and woman, the demand from the environment to choose one of the two sides in the conflict. Questions from which there is no hope, and where the answer offers no solution. The director, Ziad Doueiri seems to have said "We can't understand terror in part because it hides itself until it explodes on the scene". That certainly applies to the film, and if that was his intention then the film certainly succeeds in conveying that message.

What is also certainly clever is how the desperation of the main character Ali Suliman is conveyed, and how you as a viewer sympathize with it. Food for discussion, and once again the signal that the conflict behind it is still very far from a solution.

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BBarbie

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After an intense start, the film enters calmer but no less fascinating waters when a renowned Palestinian surgeon working in Israel looks for answers to the many questions he has after a bloody terrorist attack involving his wife. The result is an interesting film that does not take sides and leaves some questions unanswered.

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