Manichaean

Rating: 8/10 (21 May 2011)

If you liked Clint Eastwood spaghetti Westerns, this is the film for you -- it's very slow, with lingering shots of unimportant symbols, mentions moralist truisms at the end that have nothing to do with the movie, highlights desolate scenery, features endless graphic gore, turns on revenge, and celebrates stone-faced acting.
Plus, in the film, women are good and men are bad. In Lebanon, Palestinian refugee camps were good and Christians were amorally ethnocentric in trying to uphold traditional values. War is bad, except when it is the topic of a film, in which case it leads to self-discovery, which is good.