Sometimes the movies that move you most are the most difficult to describe, like this Israeli film,Walk On Water. This is the one-sentence description from IMDb: Following the suicide of his wife, an Israeli intelligence agent tasked with offing a Nazi war criminal has a crisis of conscious after he befriends his target's grandson.
Pretty good summation. Maybe I was moved because the first half of the film took place in Israel at places I have been, like the Sea of Galilee, Jerusalem, the Wailing Wall and the Dead Sea.
But this dealing with prejudices, with cleansing yourself of negative thoughts... all wound up around the son of a German-Jewish mother whose family died in camps at the hands of the Nazis befriending the grandson of the very man who ordered the deaths. Throw in this same assasin's anger toward the Palestinians and his extreme prejudice against homosexuality. Show him being reborn after being surrounded by and causing death.
I dunno. Sometimes you rent a foreign film and hate it. Total dud. Like the other Israeli film I rented a while back, Kedma. And sometimes you find a really awesome one like Ciudade De Deus, or Walk on Water. That's why I keep renting them. And obviously, I highly recommend this one.
Posted by kristen at October 2, 2005 02:52 AM