This doesn't really present much new if you are familiar with Bibi and have a reasonably strong understanding of Israel. Unfortunately in the region, the timid do not survive as you're often in survival mode. It's not easy there, surrounded on all sides by hostility and a pressure cooker inside the country. That isn't to make an excuse of some of Bibi's brash, totally boorish and overbearing behavior, but this film isn't completely honest either and the opportunistic nature that isn't fully honest about what it is becomes most disappointing.
Drucker, is a leftist liberal commentator who is a vehement opponent of Bibi for over a decade. He is also the producder in this film. His own ax to grind isn't on display here and a good amount of this feels like paying someone to film the spouse they are trying to divorce during tense times and make some of the scenes look worse than they are without explaining the entirety of it all.
Before the October 7 massacre of over 1,000 people in Israel and hundreds of hostages taken, there were massive demonstrations about the political and judiciary system in Israel and changes proposed by Bibi that are not unwarranted. It's a power struggle, where the left seeks to maintain its ability to control using a system that had good ideas but unintended consequences. This film goes much too far in trying to connect the serious problem from Gaza and surroundings of endless anti-Israel, anti-Jewish control of anything in the region with Bibi and his power struggle.
Israel suffers endless attacks from Islamic radicals, who comprise a smaller but substantial part of the population. There really isn't a solution if the goal of millions around Israel who have rid themselves of non-Muslims will continue to rebuild their forces every several years and begin another October 7 with saying that fighting back to try to find the hostages (who are still not accounted for by Hamas themselves) with Bibi just continuing the war for his own agenda. That is completely disingenuous and a way to try to appeal to all of the anti-Bibi crowd to win their little battle in Israel by making even larger accusations about the context and nature of post-October 7 decisions. This is opportunistic and I'm sure will be embraced by everyone who has contempt for Israel. It doesn't impact on the director, Alexis Bloom, who is South African and ready to accept accolades from highly visible leftist leaning groups, the Academy, and letting the repercussions for what it means for the region become irrelevent to them. Disappointed.
