esp533 Decided to open up my DVD archive and as I was flipping through it, I came across this little pretty number and saw it again. Eleven years later, it's still relevant and excellent. Luisa Williams is amazing frankly as a jaded girl who's pressured(?) / coaxed (?) into being a suicide bomber.Or is she doing it of her own accord? Frankly these questions are ancillary to the fact that she's (Nike paraphrase) just going to do it, but like Hemingway's killers in that short story of his (which I'll have to re-read again, now that I think about it), she doesn't kill anybody. Is it because of her hunger for life? Lots of scenes of her eating (the soup, the pretzels, the muffin, the pizza, the candy apple - she's got quite an appetite, which I appreciate) - and there's the way the director wants you to hear every muscle of mastication working in her.If anything, I wish it could have been longer. So many unanswered questions. What is the fallout of her failure? Does somebody contact her? Maybe one of the hoods from earlier in the movie? Or somebody higher up? What's the punishment for her failure? And it's really telling that this actress hasn't been in many films afterwards. All in all, a tight little movie and lesson on hunger and what drives you and how a hunger for life can, in some people, overpower your hunger for anything else, and that (in my opinion) is ironically the thing that leads to your downfall. Because once death finds you and claims you, it won't matter what you're hungry for, since you can't ever be hungry again.

Ghazal S Day Night Day Night is disturbing and scary, in a good way. Julia Lorkev has done an awesome job showing the emotions, inside battle and thoughts of a suicide bomber right before action, in a minimalistic way. She has wisely chosen the actress, the locations, the desaturated colors (especially in the first half). I especially enjoyed the closeness and the intimacy of the movie through its filming style. The other point that I noticed is the the way Loklev used some life routines (such as eating) and the contradictions they sometimes make, in such an artistic way to captivate such deep feelings. It is captivating, beautifully shot and definitely not an easy movie to watch.

leonid-10 I think the so-called suicide bombers and the whole culture that creates and nurtures them (seen most notably in Palestine) are so despicable and so low-life, that any attempt to rationalize, understand, "feel their pain" deserves no respect. Any human being who is willing to take lives of innocent civilians, no matter what his/her motivation, should be treated the same way as harmful bacteria that must be eradicated.This film shows the suicide bomber as a human being worthy of sympathy. She is soft-spoken, polite, capable of human emotion, certainly not evil on personal level. Are we supposed to feel sorry for her, when she could not execute her task???Supporting characters in the movie, except the black guy in the ending, look ridiculous and very unprofessional.

hywellda If you speed this up to 8X, you won't miss a thing. The camera lingers on every gesture and movement far longer than any human can pretend attention. This film could be edited to 15 minutes and it's obvious that the people responsible for it are shameless boors. The raters must be the producers, cast, and crew's family & friends or folks who saw an entirely different film. I would be as dishonest as they are if I pretended that there was more to add to a review of this "movie", but IMDb requires 10 lines as a minimum for a review of this waste of footage.I CAN NEVER TRUST AN IMDb RATING AFTER THIS.