Good Morning, Gaza is a hard-hitting documentary film, directed by Hanan Brandes and Matan Sacofsky, which premiered at the Jerusalem Film Festival this week.
Similar to its namesake (Good Morning, Vietnam),
the film is mostly made up of radio or podcast interviews and broadcasts,
edited with tons of visuals of raw footage from combat and from the destruction
in Gaza. The film is about normal reserve
soldiers, especially in the tanks, serving in Gaza, during the first 2 months
of the war, following October 7th.
The Robin Williams character is Or Brandes, a reserve tank
driver. Since he gets bored sitting in his seat waiting for something to
happen, he begins to broadcast an improvised podcast to his fellow
soldiers. Nothing is left unsaid. The soldiers talk about every subject. There is a lot of charm and humor, and much
sadness.
The soldiers talk about their fears, their experiences at
the Nova and the friends they lost at Be’iri, they talk about people they know
who have been taken hostage, they talk about issues of morality and revenge,
and about combat. Our “talk show host” successfully talks one soldier through a
crisis when he says he’s losing it. And they tell funny stories about their
children and they joke around.
With no spoiler intended, I want to say that the end of the film is a real knock-out. These are real people, mostly reservists, who sacrificed so much during this war.
Good Morning, Gaza (documentary, 52 minutes)
was produced by Lama Films for broadcast on Yes Docu. Watch for the Yes broadcast
on Israeli TV during the coming months.
During the roll of credits at the end of the film, it is
stated that some of the soundtrack was reconstructed by AI. I suppose we are going to see more and more
of that during coming years.
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