A good percentage of the entries I write for this blog end up being here totally by accident, and that is the case with this one. I watched a film last night called The Boy from Lebanon. It’s a pretty powerful and intense film, though problematic. One way that it is so is that it is presented as a true story, but doesn’t appear to be so. So I went online to check that out. While doing so I found comments on YouTube preview clips that I wanted to respond to, so I went back after finishing my quick research and wrote them up. I did so, finished what I had to say, clicked on enter and wanted to go on. But by then my entry was too long and it wasn’t accepted.

See the sites don’t tell you when you reached the limit, they just let you keep going. Well I didn’t spend a whole lot of time on the entry, but enough that I want about to just throw it out. But I wasn’t going to spent lots of time editing, either. And so it is here. For your reading pleasure.
Several things I’ve read about this movie have described it as a true story, and the fact that the producers have tacked on an “epilogue” saying where the characters are now makes it seem even more so. It is not. The movies is based on a novel by Claude Klotz. Many have commented here that the movie doesn’t accurately represent the life of a Lebanese boy. I don’t think it was intended to. Like the book, the French title was Killer Kid and not The Boy from Lebanon.
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What is relevant is that oppression has led to the cycle of violence, and the film begins with scenes of horrible violence being perpetrated against the Palestinians including helpless children. I was wrong for the American distributors to give the film that title because the director intentionally avoids making the story too specific. Moreover, in the scene in which money is exchanged for the boys, the currency is multinational. I don’t know my currencies well enough to say with certainty what all the currencies were, but there were definitely Arab currencies, American dollars and, I’m pretty sure Israeli shekels, as well. Ultimately there is a complex, international system at work here. The film is a mixed bag in terms of acting, cinematography, writing, etc. But it has its merits as well. Just recognize it for what it is.
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