Simply wonderful, interesting, instructive, all the positive qualifications that can be given to a film like this. The story is there, the confrontation between Palestinians and Lebanese Falangist groups in the past. The Lebanese director-screenwriter Ziad Doueiri had the idea of presenting a plot based on a fact, in his personal opinion, insignificant, from which the water was heating and then boiling, to end in the tragedy of a trial. During the legal process, the differences between the different groups emerge, the Christian sympathizers, many of them guided by Falangist entities, and on the other the Palestinian refugees, who seemed more like illegal Mexicans in California than Arabs in a brother country. A third factor is not seen in the film, the one that brings about these differences. That factor affects both parts, even if one of them is reluctant to recognize it as such. There is a huge rejection among these groups, difficult to eliminate. Each one is assisted by its reason each one believes it owns his truth. In these circumstances, lighting the wick is extremely easy. One bad word is enough and everything will catch fire. There was, as there was also an unpleasant response, highly offensive, capable of setting a whole forest on fire.
Review of The Insult
