Private, the most recent movie we watched in class, had some interesting themes throughout. It focuses on a Palestinian family with five children, living between a Palestinian village and an Israeli settlement. In the middle of the night their home is raided by Israeli soldiers, and the family is forced into their living room. The Israeli commander explains that their house is now going to be under their control, the family must spent the night in their living room, while during the day they can roam around their first floor, but the second is entirely off limits. Throughout the story the soldiers were portrayed as these harsh characters, while the family was humanized. You saw a concerned father, a scared mother, heavily affected children and a rebellious older daughter. We were able to see their reactions to what was going on, and saw how the father tried to defend his family, the older son try to get back at the soldiers by planting a grenade, and the children just be children. But the end has a surprising twist, after the oldest daughter goes upstairs she ends up spying on the soldiers, and they too become human. She sees them interact with one another, and explains to her little brother how they're people too, they tease one another, they fight, and one of them even ends up protecting her as she was almost caught. Interestingly enough, the movie was made by an Italian director, so it's not as though there is an inherently biased side. I think one of the results of (if not aims of) the movie is showing that there are real people on both sides of this conflict. Governments can make resolutions and claims, but if we forget about the real people affected by these actions we cannot be successful.