Death in Gaza.... has anyone seen it

[halik]

The most moving documentary i've ever watched.... the end left me staring at black screen for about 2 mins. I was completly shocked and really out of it.

 

[Wuffsunie]

Any more information for those of us who've never heard of it?

 

[Schadenfroh]

link to video? is it pro israeli or pro palestinian?

 

[RabidMongoose]

You have obviously never seen Super Size Me!

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Describe it a little...

 

[Aimster]

I'll watch it, but I better see both sides of it cause there is no point if the movie is going to be bias.

 

[Aimster]

The 77-minute HBO/Channel 4 production Death in Gaza is a story about the last moments of the life of award-winning British cameraman James Miller, 1968-2003. Miller travelled to the occupied Palestinian territories to make a film on children and was fatally shot by an Israeli soldier when filming in Rafah. The film's commentator, Saira Shah, is an award-winning journalist of Afghan-Scottish decent. Miller and Shah had collaborated on other award-winning documentaries such as Beneath the Veil and Unholy War (Channel 4 / CNN), both filmed in Afghanistan

This film was meant to be about the effect of the occupation on Palestinian children.

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[RabidMongoose]

Critics are praising British filmmaker James Miller's documentary Death in Gaza, which airs on HBO tonight (Thursday), although Miller himself will never read their reviews. He was killed by Israeli forces while making the film, the shooting captured by another TV crew. The film focuses on the indoctrination of Arab children in the belief of martyrdom. Kansas City Star critic Aaron Barnhardt writes: "I have watched my share, and your share, of these documentaries. But I've never been so moved as I have by Death in Gaza." Barnhardt concludes: "Miller's last act was to record a testament to the nihilism of war, and in so doing became a martyr to his own cause." Virginia Heffernan observes in the New York Times: "It must have been agonizing to convert the film about children that Miller thought he was making into a movie about his death. But that death is the tragedy that gives context to this powerful, painful film. Miller's voice, which would otherwise have been left out of the audio mix, is included sporadically, and he can be heard asking for his bulletproof vest or his helmet." Chicago Tribune arts critic Sid Smith calls the documentary, "a devastating and powerful testament to the horrors of war, one that focuses on the ghastliness inevitable when even children are ensnared in the conflict." Philip Kennicott in the Washington Post writes that he was particularly struck by scenes of a dying 14-year-old boy who was shot while throwing rocks at an Israeli tank. "It's a waste, an infuriating waste of a child, and an almost unbearable several minutes in this unbearably wrenching film." Miller had originally intended to show the effects of the Arab-Israeli conflict through the eyes of children on both sides, but his death halted those plans on the day before he was due to leave for Israel. And Paul Brownfield in the Los Angeles Times concludes his review by remarking, "There is another side in this narrative of endless suffering, of course, and the sad fact is that had James Miller not been shot by an Israeli armored personnel carrier, he would have crossed the divide to show it."

That's a little blurb that I found.

 

[myusername]

How ironic for the Je.. I mean Israelis.

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: Aimster
I'll watch it, but I better see both sides of it cause there is no point if the movie is going to be bias.

theres honestly no bias... it doesnt support either sideof the conflict, it just focuses on howhorrible and pointless the whole conflict is. Very powerful movie, i dont think i've ever been so captivated to just stare on the black screen with my jaw on the floor.