Movie Review: The Best Tank Movie Ever! “Lebanon”

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As war movies go, most people know the big blockbusters and have no idea of the burgeoning indepedent film indusry and what it’s producing.

With this in mind, I bring this amazing movie to the attention of readers worldwide and tell you that this movie “Lebanon” comes highly recommended by people in the industry know.  If fact one of these insiders said “This movie really startled me.  It’ probably the best war picture I’ve ever seen”.

As Roger Ebert, noted film critic says “Lebanon,” written and directed by Israeli filmmaker Samuel Maoz, is an immersive war-movie experience like “The Hurt Locker,” but turned inside out. Or, perhaps more accurately, outside in. Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar-winning combat picture propels us out into the open with an American bomb squad in Iraq — surrounded from every angle by gazing eyes, cameras and telescopes. Maoz’s film, winner of the Golden Lion at the 2009 Venice Film Festival, shuts us into a tank with an Israeli crew on a mission in Lebanon for virtually its entire running time”.

You see, the challege with war pictures is that many times they’re just not good enough, but when they’re too good, they reach a level of entertainment that makes me, as a viewer, “enjoy” the war and find it pleasurable, even if it wasn’t the director’s intention.

For example, take “Apocalypse Now”  or “Full Metal Jacket”. Those movies show the Vietnam War as some sort of a spectacle which makes the viewer enjoy the war when he should despise it.

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What makes “Lebanon” so unique is that the movie is impressive and beautiful as a work of art, but in the same time it succeeds in featuring war as so horrible, that you feel disgusted and amazed in the same time.

This movie is not perfect. It falls to some clichés sometimes and the acting of Oshri Cohen tends to get on my nerves, but the camera work is flawless and the direction is superb.

Some say that movies like “Bofor” and “Waltz With Bashir”, which deal with the Lebanon War as well, were much better because they show the background stories of the characters shown, but I don’t think “Lebanon” needed such stories. It was good enough to show the traumatic reactions of scared young soldiers who just want to go home in the face of war.

This movie is not trying to say what is right or wrong. It simply gives you the sour taste of war as it is. I generally dislike films that feel me with anger, sadness, nausea or grief, but in this case, the movie was so good and important I feel proud I saw it.

I think everyone should see this movie. Really. It’s not an easy one, and it’s not perfect but it’s real; too real. But it’s magnificient cinema and if you’re inclined to see a quality film and spend a few hours invested into something that makes you feel, then this strong movie is just the ticket.

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