I just returned home from the cinema after watching the movie "Golda", and I want to write about it.
I did not read about the movie in advance, and it looked like a spontaneous decision as I bought the ticket a few hours before the start. I haven't been to the cinema for a long time. After being too strongly impressed by the movie «Szczedryk» (or «Carol of the Bells»), when I dared to watch it on a big screen for the first time since the beginning of the war a year ago, and then I couldn't hold back the flow of tears right there in the cinema hall,... I was in no hurry to repeat this experience.
About a month ago I bought a ticket for the "Ferrari" movie. This time I chose a film that will not touch any traumas of the past. I really enjoyed it but I forgot my branded bottle from HiveFest in Amsterdam there. It's a pity...
Today I wasn't sure if I would watch the movie to the end, or at least to the middle, because there was an air raid twice in Kyiv today. I was in a supermarket and had to go out and wait outside. Then I went to another supermarket and the air alarm sounded again. And I waited again. I didn't know what exactly the movie is about, but I guessed. Aolso, I did not know in details the history of Israel, only in general (as you probably didn't know about Ukraine before). But I knew that not every Israelite considered Golda Meir to be an outstanding person or an undisputed national hero. And I knew about the war between the Arabs and the Israelis in 1973. Was it worth watching a war movie now while...you know. Maybe yes. Because nothing is over for us. I don't even know if the worst is over or still ahead. But probably it's time to learn to look my demons in the eye.
The beginning was good. I checked the lost&found and they still had my Hive bottle! I was thrilled like a child.
Then the movie. The hall was all set. People who came in had popcorn and drinks with them, well, as usual. And I'm usually annoyed by loud comments, or the fizz of a Coke bottle, or the crunch of popcorn, or the harsh light of phone screens in the dark. Yes, I am a pain in the ass. But not this time. The audience did not make a sound during the session. I had no idea that people could eat popcorn silently.
I don't know what others thought but me... Closer to the end I thought that back in February 2022, at first, of course, it was a shock, but then we kind of hoped that it would be something similar. That is, it cannot last long. Maybe a few weeks, or a couple of months. The whole world will find out and will be as horrified as we are, and do something about it. And it will stop. But in the real world, everything is much more complicated.
Also, I liked the moment when US Secretary Kissinger came to Israel and visited the Prime Minister's home. And she says to him: "Are you hungry? My housekeeper cooked borsch today." And I was like - what?? Borsch? In Israel? When I came home, it dawned on me that she was born in Kyiv, that's where it comes from. In the film, she tells Kissinger about the Russian pogroms when they lived in Kyiv. How on Christmas her father hid them in the basement and closed the windows, hoping that the drunken Russians would not notice them. It occurred to me that the cinema where I was sitting was located in the old district where many Jews lived before "the revolution", and there were definitely pogroms here. And of course, I drew many parallels with what we have now in Ukraine. Golda Meir took a very big responsibility for her mistakes and the mistakes of her government. It is hard. Our president is also Jewish, but he is not she, unfortunately.
image credit
It's funny. I wasn't going to write about war again. The more I see it the less I want to share and this self-censorship sometimes kills me. But I started a few posts and didn't finish but wrote this one in one breath.
Do I recommend the movie? It's difficult to say as I don't know I don't know how objective I can be. But I do like it.
Thank you for stopping by today.
Yours,
@zirochka
