Otto Preminger’s film
Since the inauguration of filmmaking, people have been fascinated by film and its fairylike effect on surpassing realism and engaging its audience. Otto Preminger’s film offers a consistent and broad look at the struggle for the independence of the Israeli state. The film presents the existence of extreme skepticism, especially the alienation of Arab allies, such as Palestine, due to their likely effect on the Jewish state.
The dizzying and inconsistent array of the anti-colonial claims presented in the film would infuriate a Palestinian Arab watching the movie due to their treatment with the Israelis. The demonized treatment of Palestinian Arabs in the film, while focusing on the primary narrative approach that dominates American thinking. In the same token, a Palestinian audience of the film would be concerned with the welfare and existence of hunger-striking survivors in the movie. The fact that the British colonials deny a ship entry into Palestine reminds Arabs in the country about the horror of fighting the entire British empire with few people.
Thematically thinking, the film has portrayed the Arabs in a negative light, especially as inferior individuals that require the guidance of the dominant white groups from the West. For instance, Paul Newman’s determination to turn the world opinion against the British and persuade them to let the Jews into Palestine is a piece of strong evidence that the British colonists decided to treat the Arab population with extreme contempt. The fact that Arabs in the film are shown as inferior people that are not worthy of helping, the film tends to disregard the popular opinion of the Palestinians while favoring the Israeli society. Overall, the film provides a true reflection of the discriminative treatment of Arabs in film and the White supremacy ideologies.