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Oct 15, 2018rui89x rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
First, "This Is Not a Love Song" by Public Image Ltd. was released in September 1983, whereas the Sabra and Shatila massacre took place in September 1982, one year before the track was released. Second, this film asserts to not glorify war and acts as an anti-war narrative, however those players in the film have no leverage to stop another invasion or massacre by the Israeli government. The main subject of the film is memory loss in terms of post-traumatic stress disorder and the mind's ability to forget or frame horror in order to survive. The saddest part of this film is that no Palestinian victims were interviewed, no survivors, and none of the Christian Phalangists who took part in the atrocities, just footage mocking the suffering of the Palestinian women in their moment of sorrow. This film reveals Israeli forces as unwitting collaborators in human rights atrocities. A country born of the genocide of its own people during the Shoah (the Holocaust of World War II), takes part in campaigns to root out terrorists with massive collateral damage. This is not an anti-war film, and this is not a love song.