Unit 3 Intro/Conclusion Revison

The Deadly Dance of Neutrality

Inch’Allah 2012 by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette is a powerful film which covers the topic of the Israeli Palestinian conflict with the use of a foreign character that dances between the lines of neutrality. Film directors and writers often make their work about modern day issues with storytelling and artistic symbolism. Inch’Allah is no different as a western, Canadian director shows the viewer both the hardships and how grey the lines truly are in this issue within the Middle East. With Another Voice, a blog written by Palestinian and Israeli women within the conflict give the viewer the opportunity to improve their perspective on such a faraway dispute. Both the film and text shows how convoluted the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is and how it snatches up all who live there into one side or the other with Chloe, an innocuous foreign doctor turning terrorist as the prime example.

With an improved education on the severity of issues within Israel there’s no surprise that a woman such as Chloe could get caught up in a series of terrible incidents. The film shows through this individual that there is no side without wrong doings. The Israeli faction seems to be lacking a proper screening process for their soldiers along with a lack of a mercy. The Palestinian side seems resort to organized violence when tragedy occurs instead of trying their few other alternatives. With the end result of the product of both of those sides being Chloe, a seemingly innocent woman becoming not only a terrorist but a deliverer of Rand’s tools for her own death; it is clear the movie calls for change to this conflict. As stated by the anonymous authors of Another Voice, a peaceful solution is the only way to avoid more of these real life Rands and Chloes from being swept up into this seemingly never ending conflict.

The old intro and conclusion:

Inch’Allah 2012 by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette is a powerful film which covers the topic of the Israeli Palestinian conflict with the use of a foreign character that dances between the lines of neutrality. Film directors and writers often make their work about modern day issues with storytelling and artistic symbolism. Inch’Allah is no different as a western, Canadian director shows the viewer the hardships and how grey the lines truly are in this unfortunate issue within the Middle East. With Another Voice, a blog written by Palestinian and Israeli women within the conflict give the viewer the opportunity to improve their perspective on such a faraway dispute.

Another Voice is a remarkable blog for understanding the film Inch’Allah mostly due to the fact they’re both about the ongoing conflict and issues in Israel and Palestine. As films stem from ideas and most ideas stem from a part of a reality somewhere, a non-fictional text can help us understand a reality we’re not part of. Not only does the text understand the reality of the situation, but the actual people within the conflict. A text, specifically a blog allows a greater deal of humanization along with a unique series of perspectives due to the multiple authors. With greater understanding of a subject through an outside source, especially a non-fictional one it allows our interpretation changes due to a higher education on the subject. Looking at something in a more three dimensional way allows a greater deal of content to be seen. With more perspectives and knowledge, one’s analysis and observations can become that much more astute and powerful.

Thesis Freewrite/Claim & Paraphrasing a Source

Inch'Allah was a rather impressive piece of cinematography which portrayed the Isrealian/Palestinian conflict. It added some more perspectives and ideas in regards to the issues on both sides and what these individuals live through. Using “Another Voice” it’s particularly relevant to the film as it’s from people that are literally within the zones of the conflict. Not only are these people within the conflict, but its people on both sides that are ‘speaking’ over the blog. Within the film Inch’Allah where Chloe is seeing both perspectives through Ava as a rather innocuous Palestinian woman and Rand who appears more as a direct victim of the situation, ‘hearing’ both perspectives from various women on differing ‘sides’ over a blog is very relevant.

“Another Voice” is a perfect example of using another source to understand Inch’Allah as it’s directly pertaining to the conflict and issues the film addresses. Our interpretation of a film can change greatly when taking an outside source into consideration as it adds different perspectives or in this case a greater reality to the situation.

The lenses that seems most useful to me for working on the paper would most likely be the lens of bordering cultures and political strife.

Group Presentation Blog Post

1) The group presented on the rather interesting series of blog post called Another Voice.

2) The main point to take away from the blog was how two very different but very close cultures come together in an anonymous blog while talking about daily life. It's remarkably humanizing on both sides as they discuss where these women should take their kids to school among various other things.

3) The group did explain how the blog could relate to Inch'Allah in a few ways. The most obvious factor is that it's about the conflict in Israel/Palestine but the key aspect is how it ties in with the humanity and issues on both sides. I'd use this text to explain some of the undertones and human element to the film along with some of the situations people have to go through on a daily basis.

4) The power point was well formatted and not cluttered. The only part of the presentation where improvement could be made was most likely just speaking without being nervous or decrease the amount of 'um's.

5) Everyone seemed to speak so I assume there was delegation across each member, but as I don't talk to many people within the group or saw how they react one another I couldn't make a fair judgement on delegated work.

6) As I couldn't find an actual issue with the presentation and it was rather interesting, I'd say a five is a fair statement on judging how good it was.

Film Post 2

When Faysal mentions the difference of living in both locations and feeling safe, it's the nail in the coffin that convinces Chloe to spend the night. Not only does this get her to spend the night, but it starts a domino effect of getting more and more involved. After this specific scene it begins to appear that she's starting to side more and more with the Palestinians versus being neutral. I'd definitely say this is the main shifting point when Chloe sides with Faysal and Rand's family along with their issues, which is essentially siding with the Palestinians.

Film Blog 3

Throughout the film there's plenty of mistakes and wrong doings on all sides regarding the bombing. Ava fails to do her duty as a soldier by not checking a bag, even if it's her friends. Chloe get's involved in a terrorist network along with a family that has connection to one, even when she had multiple situations to only act as a doctor versus a friend. The closest thing to a fatal error that Rand made (pre-bombing) was being around a dangerous group of people, other than that she was in a rather unfortunate position out of her control mostly. The biggest culprit I believe is the environment and situation that these people are living and growing up in.

Film Blog Post 1

The film displays a rather drastic difference in the living conditions of Israel and Palestine. We quickly see how Israel has a series of night life, markets and restaurants which is almost a cross of Western culture and their own. People are displayed as much more happier, care free and seem to be going about the lives as an ordinary individual. The Palestinian lifestyle is full of what looks to be poverty and constant danger. There's even blatant signs of oppression against them too as seen by the stories from Eva. The constant danger is shown rather bluntly by the fact there's often bullet holes in the households for that matter too. Then there's the filth and garbage which is strewn across the whole area. Israel has it's fair share of problems in their cities but it is significantly nicer than the literal garbage heaps in Palestine.

Blog Post #10

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The above ad holds the potency of metaphorically assaulting the viewer and their beliefs. It's a rather  rigid ad regarding social awareness of verbal abuse in relationships. The ad is displaying how such use of force in one's dialogue can essentially have a painful outcome for a victim. By using a symbolic use of a hand coming out of someone's mouth and hitting a woman is rather blatant evidence of the claim in regards to emotional, verbal violence. The ad acts generally as a campaign of awareness in regards to the damage one's words can do to someone.