Of course it calls itself “anti-war” but this is what the promo shots look like:
actors playing nazis
The trailer makes it look like a typical war movie. But the protagonists are German soldiers. I’m sure there will be a scene or two that show they’re meanies.
Just pushing the clean Wehrmacht myth. I wouldn’t be surprised if next they create a drama about an IDF soldier who has PTSD from committing warcrimes, and pass him off as a victim of his governments policies.
Edit: just rewatched the trailer. The protagonists are all wearing deathshead badges. What is this? Clean SS myth? ffs.
Isn’t the Shoot Cry genera really popular in Israel?
Do they bother with the crying part?
They do, for exactly the reason you think, to try and make them sympathetic characters who were “at least sad about it” instead of the obvious reality that they were laughing the whole time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_and_crying
Its not even a made up name, that’s the name of the actual genera of films they produce. We produce them too, like American Sniper.
Shit, I didn’t realize it originated as a Hebrew expression!
The skull was also the insignia of many tank divisions in the Wehrmacht. This is probably still just regular clean wehrmacht nazi propaganda.
I’m kind of surprised that we don’t already have an updated IDF movie like that, but it’s probably been in the works since the advanced notice that Israel got from Egypt about October 7th.
I’m imagining good Aryan boys and IDF “angels,” accompanied by token Misrahi Jews and a reformed Muslim Palestinian who just can’t continence the horrors of Hamas (perhaps he’s gay and has witnessed beheadings and totally real roof-tossings).
They witness a lurid depiction of what Zios say happened on October 7th, and go on to battle the “Islamonazi” hordes. Somewhere along the way, the Palestinian gets shot by the Islamonazis as a symbol for how Hamas oppresses “their own people,” but he manages to hold on in critical condition.
It turns out that a massive operation to pull off a 2nd October 7th is being coordinated under a hospital, and a brave IDF angel is forced to rocket it from her plane, but in a highly targeted manner so it’s okay. Unfortunately, Hamas was keeping a bunch of explosives in/under the hospital and much more of it was blown up than planned.
Queue wall-to-wall media coverage by the ignorant and privileged western press about supposed war crimes by the IDF, immediately threatening to cause Israel to be sanctioned by radical leftist communist (((cultural marxists))) and college kids whose protests are sponsored by Iran and Qatar, who demand Jewish blood and are attacking Jewish students and making them wear stars or something. There’s lurid footage of a hate crime being committed, where the perpetrators say “From the river to the sea, free Palestine.”
This is a profound trauma for our brave troops, whose social media is flooded with antisemitism, but with patient and wise hasbara, as well as demonstrations of their triumphs over Islamonazis who are trying to kill gay people, the IDF is able to make the comment sections bloom. Hamas’s grip on Gaza is finally broken, and the surviving Palestinian soldier thanks his Jewish comrades for liberating Palestinians, while the westerners thank them for saving the world.
A threat still looms over the horizon, because Hamas was just one tentacle of Iran and the other tentacles of the Dar al-Islam still remain, but for today, they can rest in the sunlight knowing that they freed Palestine.
Good Job
I wanna puke