Posted on 09/25/2023 7:18:55 PM PDT by Making_Sense [Rob W. Case]
Since the re-establishment of the nation of Israel in 1948, just three short years after the Holocaust, and the recapturing of Jerusalem by the Jews in the Six Day Arab-Israeli War of 1967, the nation of Israel worked hard to reclaim land that was lost to them since ancient (biblical) times. In that time, Egypt took over the Gaza strip, and Syria took over the Golan Heights region. After the 1967 War, the United States tried to spearhead a U.N. Resolution (242) which was designed to broker a peace treaty between the surrounding Arab nations with the condition that Israel respect the pre-1967 borders, and the Arabs formally recognize Israel as a sovereign nation, not “the Zionist entity” or simply “the Levant”. This re-establishment effort has created many geo-political dangers to Israel from neighboring Arab nations, as well as heightened dangers inflicted on the Western World (i.e. Israel’s allies) by the Cold War (particularly since Syria and Egypt are allies to Russia), making tensions in Middle East affairs very difficult and politically “sticky”, with the potential of initiating a political firestorm and possibly a third world war all together, not omiting the option of utilizing the atomic bomb if things aren’t handled very carefully. The film zeroes in on the politics, the war room scenarios, the strategy aspect, and an abundance of other things surrounding this period in time with a magnifying glass.
The Story:
The film begins in 1974, where Israel’s Prime Minister Golda Meier (Helen Mirren), is summoned to meet the Agranat National Commission of Inquiry, which was set up by the Israeli government to investigate failings in the country’s defense forces leading up to the Yom Kippur War, which broke out the previous year, and resulted in the loss of 2,688 soldiers....
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Golda once said she was glad she wasn’t born beautiful because she had to earn everything she achieved in her life and nothing came easy to her. Ironically in two biographies, she was played by two extremely beautiful women; Ingrid Bergman and Helen Mirren.
Very wise point. When you are able to earn everything, while at the same time experience the ugliness of people (in the sense of dealing with adversity from others), you end up more pragmatic, realistic, and logical in your thinking. In other words, reality pushes down hard on you to where you develop a sense of people that makes you more alert and shrewd, serving as an advantage if you persevere, endure, and keep your head in all situations and circumstances. In Golda’s case, she started out in left wing politics, and ended up more “conservative” at least in her perspective of war, being surrounded by hostile entities.
Say what ......... ?
Even with all the prosthetics, she still wasn't as unattractive as the real Golda. When she first appears on screen, you still can faintly see Helen Mirren under the rubber and grease paint.
Decent flick. I'd have preferred something more comprehensive (they didn't touch on why Golda was the chief reason Israel wriggled out from under the Soviet sphere of influence), but that's Hollyweird, innit?
Warning: There’s smoking in this movie... Lots and lots of smoking.
Marking.
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