Lemons are life and everyone is a prisoner who suffers tremendous losses in the 2008 award-winning Israeli film “Lemon Tree” about contemporary life on the West Bank.
In the closing scene, the Israeli defense minister stares forlornly into the ugly wall that separates him from his Palestinian neighbor with the contested lemon grove. “LIfe Behind The Wall” would have been a more appropriate title for this provocative film. The plot is somewhat similar to that of “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” where protagonists are asked to walk a mile in the other guy’s shoes.
Once the defense minister moved next to the lemon grove, the Palestinian woman whose family owned the grove must have known that nothing would be the same, one could conjecture. Either you feel a sense of immense helplessness over this mess or you see the movie as a hopeful sign. See the movie and decide for yourself.
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