Paradise Now

I don't watch the Golden Globe Awards. I don't really care about the Golden Globe Awards. Or at least I didn't, until the other day when I learned that the terrorist propaganda film Paradise Now has won the Best Foreign Language Film award.

The movie is a sympathetic portrait of two Palestinian terrorists who blow themselves up in Tel Aviv, killing lots of people, most of them children. Supposedly, this movie is "a bold new call for peace" and one of the movie's slogans is "sometimes the most courageous act is what you don't do". Except that the protagonists are not at all peaceful, and they fail to not do the most courageous act.

I've looked at the many positive reviews this movie has gotten, and the same theme stands out: this is not an apologia for terrorism because both sides are presented equally. Excuse me? Both sides are equal?! AAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!! But that is ultimately the point of a movie like this. To make mass murder appear like one of the many equally acceptable ways for people to air their greivances. It's like posting to a blog vs. going postal: both strategies have their ups and downs. This movie is just one more disgusting flick from the Palestinian propaganda mill.

Anyway, to me this is really just a matter of academic interest.....some idiots I don't know honored a film I don't intend to see. But to the father of one of the victims, it's personal.