"Censored Voices" tells the story of the soldiers of the Six-Day-War that returned home with very mixed feelings about what they had experienced during combat. This documentary lets them express their experiences and inner battles in order to deliver a different picture of the war.
First of all you need to have solid background knowledge of the history in order to fully understand this film. The producers tried to deliver some basic facts within the movie but that is only the very core of what happened. Furthermore this film focusses on one dimension and sheds light on the Israeli side of the war, it is by no means an overall portrayal. What can be found within this limited approach however is highly interesting because it is a treasure of very personal stories and views beyond political agenda and hero stories. It shows how a pure fight for survival became something different and what a war made with people that in many cases had been refugees themselves only a few years before. It shows what a desperate and absurd think war is and makes you wish never to participate in one.
All in all I think it is important to break down national barriers and focus on the human experience of war as an ongoing drama and trauma in order to overcome it and slowly build a world where we can find other solutions for problems.
First of all you need to have solid background knowledge of the history in order to fully understand this film. The producers tried to deliver some basic facts within the movie but that is only the very core of what happened. Furthermore this film focusses on one dimension and sheds light on the Israeli side of the war, it is by no means an overall portrayal. What can be found within this limited approach however is highly interesting because it is a treasure of very personal stories and views beyond political agenda and hero stories. It shows how a pure fight for survival became something different and what a war made with people that in many cases had been refugees themselves only a few years before. It shows what a desperate and absurd think war is and makes you wish never to participate in one.
All in all I think it is important to break down national barriers and focus on the human experience of war as an ongoing drama and trauma in order to overcome it and slowly build a world where we can find other solutions for problems.