Essay On Paradise Now

Set in Palestine, Paradise Now is a movie that tells the story of two Palestinian childhood friends Khaled and Said, who are recruited to carry out a terrorist mission in Tel Aviv, Israel. The two friends are to cross into Israel and blow themselves up, a plan the friends are to keep secret from their families and relatives. The movie is seen as an accurate portrayal of the real life situation of Palestine citizens who are not happy with the thirty-eight years that Israelites have occupied their land. Said is angered by the fact that the status of victims, what he believes belongs to them by right, is taken away from them by the Israelis. This assertion by Said seems to be the position taken by Palestine. Paradise Now speaks about the Palestine condemnation of violence and offers insight into those taking part in such inhumane acts. Paradise Now brings forth the issues in the Palestine-Israel war.
The film shows how the suicide
Just as Khaled changes his stance about suicide bombing, the movie enlightens the viewers and gives many people a different concept from what they originally had thought about terrorism. Through Suha, the film gives the viewers a different point of view about martyrdom. Many Palestinians fall into the trap of becoming terrorists merely because they want to become martyrs. The movie opens the viewer’s eyes that there is no martyrdom through martyring oneself. Even the director humanizes his characters in the film, and he does not glorify them at the end. He did not make Khaled out to be a hero even though the boys accept going to Tel Aviv because he believes there is no heroism in killing. The result of war is simply killing the innocent citizens and triggering war as the enemy will always