Omar (2013)

Recycling ... Recycling ... I didn't really have a subject, so I remembered that a while ago I've seen a movie made in Palestine, when I was looking for something more different than the typical mainstream. "Omar" is .. interesting, as long as you have the capacity to watch it from a fictitious perspective. To be read = I don't want to get into Middle East politics ...

Omar e is a young guy of Palestinian origin, residing close to the Israel border, working in a bakery, and saving money for a home. For a family. With his future wife. Tarek's sister ... Tarek being the leader of their resistance cell, and the guy planning the attacks ... The cell includes Amjad too, another guy who has his eyes on Tarek's sister. Things get complicated when an Israeli soldier gets shot. Omar is thrown into prison, released for the price of snitching on his friends, and further you'll see in the movie ... Tarek's sister gets married until the end, that's all I'm saying :) ...

The movie has an obvious bias, and as I was saying I don't want to get into politics. Strangely though, I think that the action can be separated from the real context. Or better said, it can probably be set in any other real context of a conflict area ... If we do that, we gradually get to see something else. It's a sort of mix between a thriller and a family drama, which when you think it was concluded, you notice that there's still something like 15 minutes up to the end. Enough to change it completely catching a tint of soap-opera, but the way the movie's solved is so quick and to the point that it doesn't get cheap. Still, there's the need to see the movie as a movie to appreciate it ... and not as political propaganda ...

Rating: 3+ out of 5