The Insult (IMDB), is a Lebanese movie by Ziad Doueiri, who wrote and directed it.
It is a complex movie, about the Lebanese situation between Christian group and Palestinian immigrants, about the way they live and works side by side in the extremely complex multi confessional, multi ethnic, multi everything Lebanon. Or so you think.
It's about and insult, the attempt to have a reconciliation that fails, the trial that follows and the whatever happened later. Which is the core of the movies. It makes you feel and understand how much more complicated things are and transpire in the very complicated world of Lebanon. It is a movie about much more than what's on surface, it is about what people are for their own complex background, the known and the hidden ones, and indeed how these have a deep effect in the way they relate with each other. They are, after all, all victims.
The main characters are portrayed exquisitely, the actors are superb and one of them won at Venice Film Festival the best actor cup.
Watch it, you won't regret and feel how deeply complicated the middle East is. Obviously it is not for everyone.
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