war
ZERO DARK THIRTY
This is one of these stories in which we know the beginning and the end, but the decade that passes in between which sees ‘history’s greatest manhunt for the world’s most dangerous man’ is still a helluva shocker. The opening scene of the movie is a totally black screen with excepts of the last telephone…
HITLER'S CHILDREN
As I left the movie house somewhat dazed I simply couldn’t get the phrase out of my head about ‘sons bearing the guilt of their fathers’. Google tells me this originated from the Old Testament where it is paraphrased quite a few times. The trouble is as so often, the Bible is confusion personified and…
THE FLAT
After Arnon Goldfinger’s 98 year old grandmother Gerda had died, he and his family descended on the Apartment in Tel Aviv where she had lived for over 70 years. Grandmother was a compulsive hoarder so Arnon and his siblings and Hannah their mother had their work cut. When Gerda and Karl her husband had re-located…
THE OTHER SON
18 year old Joseph was hoping to do his National Service in Israel’s Elite Force following in his Military Father’s footsteps. However during a routine medical a blip occurs when it is revealed that he is a different blood group than his parents. After the initial awkward accusations that maybe his mother had strayed, a…
