And as the colors of the two nationalities that claim the Holy Land are associated with the soil itself, the association is extremely symbolic and political. War is a very strong force that breaks things apart, and that is what it does here. It breaks the ritual in two. I like how cinema can communicate associatively like this. And then I put this scene at the end again in order to make a big sort of parentheses in which the war is situated.
War is a very strong force that breaks things apart, and that is what it does here.
It breaks the ritual in two. After the first painting scene, Weinraub joins his friend Ruso, and goes looking for the war. In this scene, Weinraub tells his gung ho comrade about how intelligent the Syrians and Egyptians are to attack on Yom Kippur, and then lectures him about the writings of Herbert Marcuse. And I was into it, you know. Marcuse had a very big impact on the New Left in North America and Europe in the 1960s.