Sous les bombes

Sous Les Bombes is a lousy Lebanese movie produced by French outfits.  Of course, it would get European support and recognition: they gave them a Arab gratuitous nude scene, and they had a plea at the end for end of wars, all wars.  The writer (a Lebanese right-winger by the name of Philip `Aratanji) wrote about this Lebanese southern woman looking for her son.  He shows as much understanding and sensitivity to people of the south as much as Hitler had sensitivity to Jews.  The movie was shot two days after the end of the 2006 war on Lebanon and certainly exploited the pain of the displaced people and survivors of Israeli bombs.  It included understanding for the death quads of Antoine Lahd.  The people of the South appear as visitors from outer space.  The movie is another example of political features that make me so hostile to the very entity of Lebanon, which was created by colonial powers (like Jordan) as a friendly back yard for the ugly state of Israel.  Fortunately, people like that Araqtanji will have no say in the future of Lebanon.  Their days are gone: the project of Bashir Gemayyel was destroyed under the rubble of a building in Ashrafiyyah back in the summer of 1982, and the Hariri project is a farce, no matter how much international support it garners.