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Spectators are not blank pages. They know a lot of things about this country, about this war. They have opinions, at times too clear-cut, at times opinions I don't share.
I did not make this film in order to convince them, or provide them with arguments. I made this film in order to share what I feel, what comes from my heart. I made this film in order to relay what I see to them, and offer myself for them to see as well. The wall that I filmed is as much a part of me as it is part of the mental and physical horizons of my characters. This wall is, in a sense, testament to our failure. WALL is a political film because everything is political, but it doesn't talk about politics. It talks about me, it talks about us.
Beyond the Middle East tragedy, I made this film in order to evoke that which is happening elsewhere on this planet between rich and poor, between the mighty and the weak, between the “democrats” and the “others,” between those who have everything and those who have nothing. Everywhere, the weak want to traverse the walls put up in order to keep them out, and everywhere the mighty are scared that they might find themselves in the place of the weak. As if the happiness of some can only come at the cost of the misery of others.
Sometimes, the mighty are so afraid of the weak that they’ll do anything to justify their fears and turn the weak into a real threat. Peace will come. It always does. But for now, the era of walls is upon us and I sense that it will be a horrific one.
Simone Bitton
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