Reading Response 9

1. Gitai’s position on objectivity is Gitai does not believe in objectivity, and does not make objective images. Camper finds interesting in how Gitai transitions from and “objective” to “subjective” viewpoint in Kippur, by making the soldiers subjective, like the news, they have perceptions of vividness, a presence, that encourages the viewer to accept them as the truth.
2. Examples Camper uses to support his claim are: a scene at the base while men are talking, in a long take; conversation between pilot and doctor when the viewer finds out the war is happening, shot in a distant shot; and when the viewer finds out about Klauzner’s mom, that is also shot in a long take.
3. The opening scene (and matching closing scene) divided critics by: some feel that the scene does not establish anything-making it not worthwhile to use in the film, others feel that the mix of colors and chaotic reappears throughout the film and pulls it all together by mixing colors of both flags (Israeli & Arab national) makes implied argument for peace.
4. Significant changes that took place in Israel after the War of Independence was the productive focus towards rapid industrialization, which in return changed the Israel sociopolitical structure. The consequences of the “statist policy” was it led to the political oppression of opposing factions, it changed to a quasi-socialist formation. ( I am not sure what this means). Foreign relations were changed with Egypt, they were now enemies. Hegemony means leadership or dominance, especially by one country or social group over others(from Webster dictionary).
5. Zionism- was a movement to protect the Jewish nation-Israel. Sabra is Israeli soldier fighting for the states independence, a native through ethnically mixed ‘Jew divorced’. The Sabra woman “metonymically represent the future of the state” when the couple kisses, because the woman falls in love with someone she should not fall in love with, the enemy, and she is a solider, but she puts all of that aside for love, meaning people should put aside their feelings of hatred, and look forward to the future.
6. I think the significance of having a Sabra and diasporic characters defending Hill 24, is the viewer gets to see each side defend the Hill, taping into the characters shoes, having passion for both sides, can open up the issue in war, to what side is in the right, despite what they had thought before, when a filmmaker can make war human, by showing both sides, that is when people think about what happened there, and is war worth it for the outcome.
7. The period following the Six-Day-War was different from War of Independence because there was no true set in the stone cease fire, this in turn led to guerrilla and terrorist attacks for years to follow.
8. I am not sure of the answer, but I think it may be in Siege the beginning of the film opened with a documentary and what followed it was fiction, making; I have no clue.
9. It is true dealing with the Yom Kippur War, because it shows heavy causalities on Israel side, the price paid in human lives was unprecedented for Israelis.
10. Double binded notion of persecution, directors lives are used in films themselves, using recurring shots, like battlefields shots, etc.