Dear mockumentary lovers, The 90 Minute War is finally screened for Indonesian audiences, thanks to the Hadassah of Indonesia that hosted the 3rd Tolerance Film Festival 2018 in Institut Francais Indonesia, Jakarta. Now I would like to review this comedy movie. This beautiful satire-criticizing of Israeli-Palestinian conflict-movie has been created by ARTE team that was popular for their other political mockumentary works, such as Putin's Witnesses (2018) and Rabbi Wolff (2016). For the quality of pictures, there is no critic as the main story, plots, special effects, characters, cinematography, and editing had been done beautifully with some deep research, analysis, and satire moments to combine the real footage of Israelis and Palestinians with the acted plots of the leaders to meet each other to end conflict by the football. That is the main story that lead us to think many plots coming ahead and make us sitting impatiently to see the match. Since the beginning, the Director Mr. Eyal Halfon (Starmeter: 415.435) has taken long shots about the team, who is behind them, why they have to do something, their difficulties, outcomes, and what land they support for. The appearance of German coach, Palestinian mother, half Arabic-Jewish player, and third party of camera (controlled by Mr. Daniel Kedem) are just side of the story to focus on preparing football as the tool of peace. Here we can see the professional acting of Moshe Ivgy (Starmeter: 118.986) and Norman Issa (Starmeter: 835.190) to be played as eternal enemies as defending for their own each country. In fact, talent department under the lead of Mr. Meirav Nahum, perhaps unintentionally choose both Israeli main actors. Both Ivgy and Issa are Israeli actors. This is so contradiction with the football as equal match, so the movie has some side to burden for. Even though Issa was having many roles as Arabic figure, but this movie content is so sensitive to have materials which are not equal. The supporters, lands, conflicts, editing scenes, plots are equal, except the actors themselves. In Indonesia, this movie has been chosen by Hadassah of Indonesia team becomes one of examples movies of being tolerance in Tolerance Film Festival 2018. Since 5 years ago in 2013, the tolerance issue in Indonesia is getting crucial, because not just people is getting sensitive on religion issue, but also some provincial governments support intolerance by promoting unequal laws. This is so sad if we know that Indonesia is the biggest democracy country in the world and the 4th biggest population on earth. Former Indonesian Ministry of Religion, Prof. Munawir Syadzali and 4th Indonesian President, Mr. Abdurrahman Wahid, said that Indonesia is not religious country, nor secular country, so that the definition of state-relationship can be stated depending on the situation and condition. Related to the issue confronted on this movie, Indonesia-Israel is hard to be happened, because realize or not, the majority of Indonesia are moslems with the belief that Jewish is enemy of Islam so that young Indonesian moslems are growing with strong capture that Israel is an evil country in their mind. Many Indonesians moslems did misinterpretation of what is going on in Israel-Palestinian conflict. Sometimes they don't know the differences between Israel, Zionist, and Jewish. In the movie also there is a player who is half-Jewish-half-Arab and other actors call him differently, as Arabian-Jewish or Israeli-Moslem. Yes because scientifically somebody can be internalized with those identities, but somebody perhaps only has one identity of such. But here in Indonesia, generalization and hoax news are everywhere, instead the existence of Pancasila as the belief on creating world peace. Until now, Indonesian diplomacy still support "Free-Palestine". I myself has no any disruption on that, because Indonesia is part of Organization of Islamic Conference and we are friends with Palestinian officials in Jakarta. We don't have Israeli Embassy. The diplomacy Indonesia to support Palestine is totally great, but by judging that only Palestinians are in suffering is out of question, because both parties are suffering. In peace&conflict theory, we are learning about "the concept of being suffered to have international sympathy". In the movie here also the Director Mr. Halfon and Editing Department Mr. Arik Leibovitch, showed that both parties are in suffer. The big match football is taken as soft-critic and black satire to state that it is too complex to have peace in Israeli-Palestinian conflict, so that only fun games can do it. Some dialogues in this movie are coming from the real heart of both parties to have peace. I appreciate Madame Monique Rijkers from Hadassah of Indonesia as organizing committee and also translators for 11 movies screened in Tolerance Film Festival 2018 as part to promote tolerance in Indonesia. Indonesia already has Pancasila as the tolerance tool, but hence, movies are fun way to learn about tolerance. For next year, I hope there will be 4th Tolerance Film Festival with several movies from Indonesia, because it is not Israel Film Festival, nor Palestine Film Festival. Indonesia has several good movies to promote tolerance. It is the time for the world to know that Indonesia is a peace country and to reconstruct of what is definition of tolerance for Indonesians by internalizing Pancasila in everything, including to write movie critic. Congratulation Hadassah of Indonesia, Madame Monique Rijkers, TFF 2018, IFI, and see you next year!
Review of The 90 Minute War
