Walk on Water
Once a week on Wednesday afternoons I attend an Honors Psychology Seminar (in English) with four other American students. The seminar has proven fascinating so far – this week we discussed the intergenerational transmission of trauma between Holocaust survivors and their descendents.
Tonight there was a showing of the Israeli movie "Walk on Water" in the student center. The movie is in Hebrew, German and English (with English subtitles during the Hebrew and German parts). The protagonist is a good-looking, undercover mossad agent whose parents survived the Holocaust. He is ordered to befriend the grandchildren of a Nazi in order to discover his hiding place. The ending seemed a bit contrived in my opinion, but the movie was thought-provoking on many levels. Among other things, the movie reinforced the ongoing influence of collective memory in contemporary Israeli society.
Tonight there was a showing of the Israeli movie "Walk on Water" in the student center. The movie is in Hebrew, German and English (with English subtitles during the Hebrew and German parts). The protagonist is a good-looking, undercover mossad agent whose parents survived the Holocaust. He is ordered to befriend the grandchildren of a Nazi in order to discover his hiding place. The ending seemed a bit contrived in my opinion, but the movie was thought-provoking on many levels. Among other things, the movie reinforced the ongoing influence of collective memory in contemporary Israeli society.
posted by Deborah at Saturday, November 05, 2005
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