It's obvious why this relatively obscure film was nominated for a Foreign-Language Oscar. A refugee Palestinian construction worker hurls an insult at an extremist Christian Lebanese mechanic, and the ensuing trial mushrooms into a national crisis. Ring a bell? It all boils down to anger at why the system occasionally serves the minority (the Mexicans, African-Americans, gays, women, etc ...) over the majority (the middle class white American male), and why even a notion of a solution requires looking back into decades of smoldering animosity (the O.J. trial). You'll start contemplating how we ended up with Trump in the first place.
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