Avenge But One of My Two Eyes / Nekam Achat Mishtey Eynay (2005)

נקם אחת משתי עיני

The title comes from Samson's famous last prayer asking God to give him the strength one last time to take revenge. In a surprising exercise of symmetry, Avi Mograbi uses Jewish mythology to portray the Palestinian mindset. Against a backdrop of senseless daily persecution, Mograbi shows us lost people, clueless in a situation that nobody seems to make any sense out of. It is a fresh new approach void of the usual bloody violence and hatred, with no commentary or voice-over, where real-life people enact a macabre and surrealist play. It is this kind of documentaries that give me hope because I can see that there are still people in the midst of all this hatred that can still retain enough lucidity to recognize what they see for what it is : a shame. Two peoples with so much in common entangled in a death embrace that will consume them both. Just like the director of the documentary, we want to scream at them " What are you doing ?!"

Released: ;; July 14th, 2005

Technical Details: ;; MPEG 4 - resolution: ;; 560x320 - Millions of colors
FPS: ;; 29.97
MPEG Layer 3 audio, Stereo, 48.000 khz
Data Rate: ;; 969.88 kbit / second