Try telling that to the folks at Al Jazeera, who compiled a roundup of online commentators and posters who have panned the film as pro-Israel propaganda.Īnd it’s not just Israel bashers who think it. A long-term solution probably involves even the most creative form of reactive thinking - it requires a willingness to contemplate the root cause.” The most aggressive policy won’t be useful in the face of a serious threat. “Still, when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - and, for that matter, conflict in general - ‘World War Z' offers what seems like at least one clear takeaway. “It may well be that there’s no single message intended by the film,” he wrote. Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Steven Zeitchik offered up a more optimistic, albeit still daunting, takeaway. Peace, one might deduce, is untenable - no matter how much people are willing to move past their differences. Unfortunately, the joyous masses don’t realize that noise arouses the zombies. Celebrating their survival, everyone joins together in song. In a twist, cross-cultural harmony is the wall’s downfall. Ultimately, though, the experiment in segregation doesn’t work. Israel has committed to imagining the unimaginable - and preparing for it. It seemed crazy, but so had the prospect of the Holocaust, the Munich massacre and the Yom Kippur War.
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Pitt is there to find out how Israel could have possibly built a structure of that magnitude so quickly - not to mention a full week before the pandemic hit in full force.įrom a member of the Mossad intelligence agency he learns that the tip came from an intercepted email mentioning zombies. As long as you’re not a monster with an appetite for humans, you’re cool. In apocalyptic Jerusalem, background is irrelevant. Interestingly, in the film the wall actually brings Israelis and Palestinians together. Some see the cinematic version as a pro-Israel statement, justifying the existence of a wall in the real-life, non-zombie-ridden West Bank - the wall is extreme, but it keeps people safe. Pitt, off to solve the next piece of the puzzle, hops on one of these planes (run by Belarus Airlines), with his new pandemic-fighting partner, a tough female Israeli soldier played by Danielle Kertesz.īut that’s all the blogosphere needed to start buzzing for weeks about the deeper meaning of the Israel-related plot line and the message that it sends about Israel and its policies. As zombies storm the city’s streets, flights of people hoping for refuge are landing in a place founded by people who not so long ago were refused refuge by most of the world.
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In the movie we don’t see Jerusalem for very long. Then there’s Israel, which has built a wall in Jerusalem between the undead and the uninfected. One is North Korea, where in a 24-hour period, the government has removed the teeth of its citizens, making it impossible for the disease to spread. The zombie plague is spreading like wildfire, and Pitt’s character, Gerry Lane, a former UN official turned stay-at-home dad, learns that only two countries have been able to successfully stave off infection.
The movie features another equally well-known newsmaker, if in this case less publicized: Israel.
So can’t we all just buy some popcorn, suspend our disbelief and enjoy the show?
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“World War Z” gives us the basics of a summer blockbuster - a star actor worth looking at (Brad Pitt) and a far-fetched action-packed plot (hero races to stop virus that is turning all of humanity into zombies).
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