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“Can I just ask you a question: does it seem at all scary knowing that someone got killed there before–or is it not even because people get killed everywhere?” – Rebecca, agape American In episode 3 of the ‘Foreigners in Palestine’ series, our rubbernecking wide-eyed war reporter travels to Hebron, where she meets the luminously seen-it-all Maya, a 19-year-old Danish woman working with the Palestinian group Youth Against Settlements. Walking with Maya through an Israeli settlement in the West Bank There’s a lot of things that scare me about that… but I think also a lot of potential for doing something different than is usually done in literature about Israel/Palestine.” I’m also aware that I’m a much younger woman and he’s an older man and there are certain dynamics that come along with that–and we used to have a romantic relationship–so that also frames our friendship now and our way of working and that’s a pretty… controversial thing, I think, in this context. I’m very aware of my position as a white Jewish-American writing a Palestinian story. “We’ve known each other for 10 years and… He’s been a really powerful and strange force in my life and the dynamics … between us in the writing of the book, I think, have a lot to say and point to and question about other relationships in the context of The Conflict… I sort of see the book as joint struggle. Penina Eilberg-Schwartz is a Jewish-American writer/poet and electric guitar player with San Francisco-based band Little Teeth writing a nontraditional biography with and about her friend and former romantic partner Sulaiman Khatib, the Palestinian co-founder of Combatants for Peace. He was giving a talk about his story and she loved him–as many middle-aged Jewish women do–he’s an incredibly charming person that’s one of the pieces of his story… ” “When I first met him, it was at my mom’s house in Minnesota… For even though men and women are socialized to be all-or-nothing opposites, we still can’t help but be multifaced humans” “Femininity, or rather the idea of femaleness permeates this film, but no woman can be feminine the way it’s patriarchically defined. But though Traditional Masculinity is the menacing, despairing center of this movie, failure to compete and win at this unwinnable game–Being a Man–(and thus avoid humiliation, rape and death) compelled me.

#Puffin cafe movie#

“The film looks perfect and it felt perfect to watch at the time and it felt historical… ” but the overwrought bluster of male-coded ‘fight’ in this post-9/11 movie reveals an obvious ‘underscape’ of feminine ‘flight,’ fantasy and desired-and-feared alternatives to violence.Īll lavish and moody blue, I as Humble Mumbles was totally won over by 25th Hour’s New York story of redemption, fathers, sons, macho shit, and the American Dream in the Wake of Catastrophe. We return in 2018 to the 2015 experience of rewatching this 2002 movie in all its fiery coldness and unspoken but deeply felt desires for warmth…Īmerica in 2002, NFR proposes, was a lot like Edward Norton in 25th Hour: dogged and beat-up and… ready to get back up again and torture and kill in Iraq and Afghanistan. Via our two podcasts (Humble Mumbles & Never Forget Radio) in concert for maybe the last time.

However, times have changed.Ģ5th Hour, we are proposing, while ostensibly a grand opera of mythic masculinity, burns with fear and desire (to be and to have) of The Feminine. And it is directed by Spike Lee and features a fine cast. It emerged in the early post-9/11 cinema world. It’s the breathless epic/gritty tale/classic caper/New York torque of One Man’s Last Day of Freedom with all its existential reckoning, love, comradeship, suspicion, despair etc etc before he goes to jail (the 25th Hour). And we (Humble Mumbles & Never Forget Radio) once loved it.