Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Channels of Rage Response
I really enjoyed watching this movie. I thought the concept of peace through rap/hip-hop was really interesting, but it clearly wasn't executed very well. As the movie went along, I started to think that even though TN was saying that he wanted peace, the lyrics in his songs were not just pro-Palestinian but subtly anti-Israeli. I do think that both of the men focused too much on the past and on the negatives rather than on the future, but TN seemed more extreme to me. At one point he was performing at a camp for children and was rapping about a kid getting shot in the face. At least from what the movie showed, TN's lyrics played on the emotions more so than Subliminal's and didn't focus as much on equality or peace.
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When your reality is kids getting shot in the face, it's kind of hard to sugar coat that with nice words about equality and peace. I think those words are over-used anyway. We might hear them more from Israelis because they are living in relative privilege and can afford to speak in more idealistic terms - not that I am dismissing or minimizing the suffering of Israelis or the harsh realities of terrorist threats and military duty. But being Israeli and being Palestinian are two very different experiences in terms of what you witness from day to day.
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