God's Neighbors (2012) [N/A]
Featuring:
Roy Assaf, Gal Friedman, Itzik Golan
Written by:
Meni Yaish
Directed by:
Meni Yaish
Release Date:
July 12, 2012
Original Title:
המשגיחים
Alternate Titles:
Gods Neighbors
Ha'Mashgihim
Ha-Mashgihim
HaMashgihim
Les voisins de Dieu
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
Bizibi
Transfax Film Productions
Production Countries:
Israel
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 102
Rules must be followed. For the "supervisors" of the Bat Yam neighbourhood in Israel, this means ensuring that women are dressed appropriately, that people respect Shabbat, or that Arabs from Jaffa don't enter the neighbourhood with music blaring from their cars. Avi, Kobi and Yaniv are young and know how to fight. They want to force their neighbours to become religious, without hesitating to be violent in the name of God. The inhabitants admire the gang and are afraid of them at the same time. One day a new girl, Miri, arrives. She is not familiar with the strict rules of modesty. The gang's leader Avi is going to be torn between his feelings for Miri and his dedication to the gang.
Gods neighbors remind me last strong Brazilian movies about the violent of human beings. It is not depend on what ideological or social basis is flourished.... 3 young men (almost not working) are put themselves as God policemen. every stranger get their "treatment". A little bit of romantic, a little father's love and a lot of the wrong ways of the Orthodox religions way of life. very very good acting, and in opposite the strong story - the young actors - act great. This is a story of war: a fight of the religious against the secular, the conservatives against the modern people, the racist against the strangers, and the men against the women liberation. Their life in Israel were the reflections of the North African Jewish religious communities, like nothing changed along the 60 years of their life in Israel. All our life was led by our fears. and all the "strong" believers men are really afraid of the modernity...
