Scribd
Upload
39 views1 page

Local Angel: A Reflection on Peace

Local Angel is an important and beautiful film because it intersects subjective experiences with objective situations. The story of a mother and exile dealing with the distance between New York and Israel represents the fundamental division in his consciousness. This subjective perspective is linked to the objective issues of the Palestinian plight and larger questions of war, violence, and history. The film constructs an interplay between the profound subjective questions and an objective investigation of the political situation that is never too partial. Despite its complex construction, the central question of the film is clear - what are the real conditions of peace for everybody?

Uploaded by

Enrico Lucca
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
39 views1 page

Local Angel: A Reflection on Peace

Local Angel is an important and beautiful film because it intersects subjective experiences with objective situations. The story of a mother and exile dealing with the distance between New York and Israel represents the fundamental division in his consciousness. This subjective perspective is linked to the objective issues of the Palestinian plight and larger questions of war, violence, and history. The film constructs an interplay between the profound subjective questions and an objective investigation of the political situation that is never too partial. Despite its complex construction, the central question of the film is clear - what are the real conditions of peace for everybody?

Uploaded by

Enrico Lucca
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd

Angel for a New Place

On the Film Local Angel


ALAIN BADIOU

Local Angel is not only a very beautiful and interesting movie, but also a
very important one. Naturally we can say its beautiful and interesting
because of its subtle construction composed of very beautiful images of
New York, the Palestinian territories, and of men and women from several countries, however, there is a more fundamental reason, which is that
the movie occurs at the intersection between a very subjective determination and a very objective situation. The story is certainly not only about
the Palestinian situation, but also about the figures of the mother and the
exile who is dealing with that distance between New York and Israel which
is the fundamental division of his consciousness.
This subjective determination is completely linked with the objective
situation, with the question of the Palestinian plight, as well as larger
questions of war, violence, and history. In fact, there is a sort of a constructive interplay between the subjective question, which is very profound and difficult, and the objective investigation, which is never too
partial or too subjective, of the radicality of the political situation. Despite
a very complex construction, the great question of the film is very clear:
what are the real conditions of peace for everybody?

First published in Polemics (London: Verso, 2006).

alon15758_cl.indd 184

7/6/11 8:00 PM

You might also like