Louis Theroux
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Appearances Over Time
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shown how these people are just crazy.
No one takes them seriously, which, by the way, is not the case.
Daniela Weiss enjoys enormous influence.
But similarly, on the other side, some people are like, well, it's 15 or 20 minutes before you meet a Palestinian person, right?
And it's a farmer speaking in Arabic.
And then I quickly move on to talk to an Israeli peace activist.
And across the board, I'm giving, you could argue, a megaphone
to the settlers.
And so I think some people felt, well, you've sort of erased the Palestinian place.
Yeah, there was a guy who I met in a village who was like, you didn't really discuss how we've already been displaced.
He told me a story on camera about how he'd ended up in this village in the West Bank near Hebron.
But prior to that, he'd been in what's now Israel and displaced from that, I believe.
And so there's a sort of ongoing compounding of refugee status.
And he was understandably upset.
And realistically, and I've been at screenings where people have made similar complaints.
And I just have to say, I work in a way when I make films that tends to be perpetrator focused.
I try and interrogate those people who have the most power and the ones who have the most power.
And this actually speaks to the idea that, oh, it's one sided.
In a sense, you could argue it is because I'm looking at the people who are in control of the tanks and who actually are benefiting from the occupation to interrogate their choices.
And other films could be made.