Spielberg's best and bravest film

Rating: 9/10 (12 January 2006)

Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner are taking a lot of criticism for speaking the truth powerfully and effectively. If this were not such a well-made movie, people who support Israeli state violence would not be so incensed by it. The movie makers have graphically portrayed the violence of both sides evenhandedly--too much so for those of us who believe that the origin of the conflict lies in the way that the state of Israel was founded and has expanded well past its UN-defined boundaries, leaving the Palestinians with no viable state.
The notions that violence breeds violence and that "an eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind" have rarely been portrayed so movingly.