“You could have a kitchen like this someday. It costs dearly, but home always does.”
This movie is nonstop. A thrilling collection of set pieces whose overall effect is to show the human cost of an endless cycle of bloodshed.
The thing I took away the most on this viewing was the juxtaposition of middle class bourgeois existence with the machinery of death. Towards the beginning of the film, Geoffrey Rush’s character briefs Avner on who he is to kill and how he is to do it, all while walking along a peaceful seaside beach with children playing in front of them. In many of the characters’ minds, one leads to the other — the pleasantness we all take for granted exists because people dare to sacrifice for their country.
The military and state apparatus insist that only through killing can your home finally be secured. The question this movie asks, quite hauntingly: What if it’s not?