2-3 months ago I had an occasion to watch contemporary Israeli movies on Israel Film Days (the exact occasion I will describe later as it is worth separate description). I am in no way a connoisseur of movie art. Like most people I watch movies that have intrigued me somehow or that for whatever reason I become to consider worth 2 hours of my time (not always they turn to be worth that much which is pretty universal experience I guess). Movies I wanted to share with you reflection upon were "Matchmaker", "A matter of size" and "Noodle". The first one is a drama, the second comedy and the third a family movie so they fall into very different categories. What they have in common is that they are all heartwarming. Contemporary American and European movie art (at least popular one) can be roughly divided into action movies (escaped after having been killed) - not necessarily logical and offering few things except speedy action and movies about the despair and worthlessness and impossibility of life (with American production dominated by the first category and European one by second category). As a non-professional but pretty demanding viewer I consider most of the movies falling into first category as stupid and most falling into second one as depressing and therefore not worth time and money spend to make you feel bad. Of course I am aware that most movies produced are far from brilliant and it can never be any other way :) yet those categories are overrepressented to a highest point eliminating other categories from the market. By contrast I genuinelly enjoyed watching the 3 mentioned Israeli movies. They deal with hard and sometimes painful issues yet they do it in a very human, warm, enchanting way. They let us sincerely laugh with (and sometimes from) the people shown who are funny in no obscenic way, sad in no depressing way, lost in a way leaving space for hope and therefore leaving strength and motivation for fighting with reality. To put it short all those movies were OPTIMISTIC - a quality nearly missing from contemporary movie and missed so much by many. Myself certainly included!
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Tuesday, 7 February 2012
About Israeli movies
2-3 months ago I had an occasion to watch contemporary Israeli movies on Israel Film Days (the exact occasion I will describe later as it is worth separate description). I am in no way a connoisseur of movie art. Like most people I watch movies that have intrigued me somehow or that for whatever reason I become to consider worth 2 hours of my time (not always they turn to be worth that much which is pretty universal experience I guess). Movies I wanted to share with you reflection upon were "Matchmaker", "A matter of size" and "Noodle". The first one is a drama, the second comedy and the third a family movie so they fall into very different categories. What they have in common is that they are all heartwarming. Contemporary American and European movie art (at least popular one) can be roughly divided into action movies (escaped after having been killed) - not necessarily logical and offering few things except speedy action and movies about the despair and worthlessness and impossibility of life (with American production dominated by the first category and European one by second category). As a non-professional but pretty demanding viewer I consider most of the movies falling into first category as stupid and most falling into second one as depressing and therefore not worth time and money spend to make you feel bad. Of course I am aware that most movies produced are far from brilliant and it can never be any other way :) yet those categories are overrepressented to a highest point eliminating other categories from the market. By contrast I genuinelly enjoyed watching the 3 mentioned Israeli movies. They deal with hard and sometimes painful issues yet they do it in a very human, warm, enchanting way. They let us sincerely laugh with (and sometimes from) the people shown who are funny in no obscenic way, sad in no depressing way, lost in a way leaving space for hope and therefore leaving strength and motivation for fighting with reality. To put it short all those movies were OPTIMISTIC - a quality nearly missing from contemporary movie and missed so much by many. Myself certainly included!
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