Review of Syrian Bride

Syrian Bride (2004)
8/10
A good-natured look at a Middle East mess
23 February 2006
The Golan Heights! Who hasn't read about them in the newspapers or heard the name in the TV news? It's a real movie surprise to see this famous area, witness its great beauty in Technicolor, and learn that it is famous for its apples and coffee.

Furthermore, people lived there long before the Israeli Defence Force marched in, and they are the stubborn, defiant Druze, who still adhere to Syria, 39 years after the USA's proxy nuclear state took over.

This richly human story dramatises the inter-state rivalry that washes over the heads of the local population, enmeshing them in boiling hot afternoons waiting at the will of cretinous petty government officials and their absent superiors.

This is a fine film that no one will see in the USA because (unless it's "The Crucifixion" in Aramaic) "Americans won't watch subtitled movies". It's a shame because they would learn something about the actual, daily-life effects of their leaders' huge subsidies and massive military aid to the racially-based Jewish state.

Furthermore, they would learn that Arabs are not hijackers or bomb-belt wearers, but people just like you or me.

However, they will be watching "Flight 93" and other racist propaganda instead. It's so sad...
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