Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Storm of Emotions

The local public broadcasting station showed "Storm of Emotions" last night, which followed the soldiers and policemen sent to remove settlers from their homes on the Gaza strip.

This was an extraordinary film.

Stunning also were the understanding and high levels of training, compassion, valor and steadfastness demonstrated by the police in removing these people who refused to leave.

Instead of charging them, they embraced them. Instead of shooting them, they listened to them. Instead of fighting them, they reasoned with them and gave concessions where possible, while maintaining the integrity of their mission.

Were American police to be afforded this level of training and support from senior officers, our country would be a better, safer place.

Moo!

7 Comments:

Blogger watercolordaisy said...

I'll have to check it out. If only most of us took that approach in our lives...

9:02 PM  
Blogger The Topiary Cow said...

Yes, it showed real understanding and thought had gone into their actions.

Wish our own police and soldiers had the benefits of such good training.

Moo!

6:50 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Hi there,
I'm the editor of that film, liked what you wrote here.
thanks.

Ittai Finkelstein

4:01 PM  
Blogger The Topiary Cow said...

Hi Ittai,
Thanks for commenting on my blog!

You did a great job--this was just an extraordinary film, a film that stays in your thoughts long after seeing it.
I'm sure it was a difficult film to edit, dealing with large amounts of material, trying to distill it down to only one hour.

The end result was an engrossing film which showed the reality of the experience; fascinated with both details and an overview of the actions.
The Topiary Cow wishes you all the best and will look out for more films you edited!

7:27 AM  
Blogger The Topiary Cow said...

Just checked the Storm of Emotions official website and found the film actually runs 106 minutes, NOT an hour.

This film was so good, the time sped by--seemed like only an hour!

Moo!

7:34 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Actually, the original version that was shown on theaters and was sent to the academy had been 106 min. but for PBS we had to cut it into an 84 min. ver. which is much better by all means. the other version was too long. so what you've seen was really 84 min.

9:25 AM  
Blogger The Topiary Cow said...

Very interesting, thanks.

Will be checking your new films to see more of your work!

Moo!

9:38 AM  

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