Recently watched a treasure movie, from a country that is rarely noticed, is a movie from Israel.
There is no single shot in the whole film to describe the cruelty of war, let alone any war scenes, but it always reminds the audience from time to time that ordinary life, because of war, for some reason, has become different. And the film also puts forward a thinking about fate, is it impossible for people to escape the fate that has long been predestined?
Foxtrot
Before talking about this movie, let's talk about a little knowledge about dancing foxtrot, which is also the title of this film, forward, left, backward, right; forward, left, backward, right... It is repeated countless times, but in the end, no matter how they dance, how they play their dance posture to the fullest, they will eventually return to the original point, which is foxtrot.
This also coincides with the story in the film, everything returns to the original point, back to the original news received by the family.
An Israeli family, the owner of this home is called Federman, on this day, his home suddenly came a few military people, for the sudden arrival of soldiers in the family, obviously Federman is not mentally prepared, the family seems a little surprised.
But the soldiers who came to inform them turned them from shock to apocalypse, telling Federman that his son Jonathan had been killed in the line of duty.
When the wife heard the news of her son's death, she fainted on the spot, and the people who came skillfully calmed her, as if they had been doing this kind of thing, very skillfully. Although Federman was grieving on the surface, he remained sober.
However, after that, his personality became irritable and irritable, and he kept kicking the family dog or hurting himself to alleviate his grief.
Just as the Federman family was grief-stricken and sad and preparing to attend Jonathan's funeral, the military personnel told them that they had made a mistake and that his son was still alive.
It was a fool's errand, an army of dignitaries, and all these things could be mistaken, and the Federmans came out of the cold like an ice cellar again. However, as a family member, Federman, who was frightened by such a big oolong by the soldiers, was angry, and as a father, he ran away, scolded the military, and demanded that the military horse and immediately send Jonathan back to prove that his son was indeed alive. And he was no longer willing to put his son in the barracks, and he couldn't help but be so worried.
As soon as the camera turns, the son is in the barracks, in the rear of the battle line, and his daily routine is to talk to his comrades-in-arms, chat, check the passers-by, there is no danger at all, and he also enjoys such a life.
However, during an inspection of passers-by, he killed a car of people by mistake, it was a car.
But when they routinely inspected a passing vehicle, everything was checked, there was no abnormality, and when the person being inspected opened the door and was ready to go, a circular thing fell out, at which point a soldier shouted a bomb, and Jonathan's machine gun fired a strafing shot at the inside of the car. After the gunfire stopped, the crowd realized that it was a can of beer that had fallen.
The army did not report the incident, but buried the people and suppressed the matter.
The two things added together, plus Feynman used some connections, and Jonah got into the car home.
However, the accident happened when he returned home, and the car he was in had an accident and Jonathan died.
Therefore, the film can be simply summarized as a soldier Jonathan, who was mistakenly rumored to have died in battle, and in fact he was still alive and well, but in the end, he still died.
The story seems simple, but everything that happens around the story is more than that.
Federman's insistence on letting his son go home leads to tragedy, and his wife believes that Federman killed his own child, and the relationship between the two is rifted.
A family, just so broken.
The film does not say positively that the war broke the family, nor did jonathan "glorious" in the battle, but used a funeral that had been canceled and had to be held as scheduled, and the parents who had already put their hearts at ease fell into the cold ice cellar, to metaphorically how many families were destroyed in the war.
The beginning is the end, even after a big circle, or back to the original point, which has to make people believe what is fate?
The film makes some of the dark side of their country too explicit, such as sacrifice can be put on the oolong, the use of relations can let the soldiers go home, accidentally kill civilians, bury on the spot, in fact, not only that, Federman's mother is crazy, the symbol seems to be related to religion, it can be said that a movie, attacked too many aspects, poked the sore, so it was officially named, it is not difficult to understand.
Although the film dares to shoot and dare to say, it is presented in a comedic way, and the structure is also very exquisite, so it does not give people a sense of preaching, just like Jonathan holding a gun and dancing foxtrot, slightly funny, so back and forth, and finally at the origin.
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