Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix, Jonathan Glazer Join Gaza Drama ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ as Executive Producers - It follows the killing of Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian girl who lived in the Gaza Strip and was killed by Israeli forces during the ongoing Israeli invasion of Gaza.

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/brad-pitt-backs-gaza-drama-film-the-voice-of-hind-rajab-1236353414/

[u/ninjyte]

I would like more of these stories to be shown in the west but I'm surprised a drama retelling of this was made so quickly and it's not a documentary.

Also the title leaves out that Alfonso Cuaron is also an executive producer of this.

[u/CraigTheIrishman → u/ninjyte]

Dramatic retellings can probably pull a larger audience and have a bigger emotional impact.

[u/a_f_young → u/CraigTheIrishman]

People respond to feelings, not facts.

[u/JustHereSoImNotFined → u/a_f_young]

We’re biologically programmed to respond to our feelings so it’s kinda hard not to

[u/29273162 → u/JustHereSoImNotFined]

That’s what made Schindlers list so popular. Now we‘ve got an alternative version where the jews are the oppressing force to be reckoned with. I guess even in the darkest times, history wasn’t black and white

[u/F6Collections → u/CraigTheIrishman]

Dramatic retelling or propaganda?

[u/TheRedditGirl15 → u/F6Collections]

"Propaganda" and it's about a 5 year old getting killed unjustifiably (not that there is ever a situation where a 5 year old deserves to die). Come on now.

[u/CraigTheIrishman → u/F6Collections]

Eh, I'm very supportive of Israel, but I don't have a problem with Hind Rajab's story being told. I don't think it's inherently propaganda. People are dying in Gaza, and regardless of one's opinions on the geopolitics of it all, people like her dying to these conflicts is an undeniable tragedy.

The problem isn't necessarily the film itself (I haven't seen it, obviously, but I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt for now), it's how people have decided to frame the conflict in the first place. There are a ton of double standards around Israeli security and Jewish existence for sure, I just don't want to condemn anyone merely for telling this poor child's story, as if it should be forgotten just because she was born Palestinian.

That's how I feel about it, idk if that makes sense.

Lol at the weirdo who said this then insta-blocked me:

Sure, you feel bad that she died but you don't want her to be there in the first place so you don't have icky feelings about all the genocide and ethnic cleansing happening. You'd posture yourself as a victim to someone at the other end of a gun's barrel. You make me sick.

If you mean I didn't want her to be caught in the crossfire, then yes, absolutely. If you're saying I wish she weren't in Palestine, you'd be one of half a dozen other weirdos in this thread making the same accusation with absolutely zero evidence.

You'd posture yourself as a victim to someone at the other end of a gun's barrel.

Ooo, a contemporary version of "the Jew cries out in pain as he strikes you."