الحديقة، XXXI، 108
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Paradiso, XXXI, 108, is a 2022 Palestinian movie, directed by Kamal Aljafari. with a runtime of 18 minutes.
Paradiso, XXXI, 108 is a short film whose title — borrowed from Dante's Divine Comedy — frames a chilling poetic monologue delivered from inside a warplane on approach to a bombing run. As the roar of the engines drowns out every other sound, the narrator describes the impending release of bombs as though it were the world's greatest display of soundproof fireworks. The film confronts the viewer with the terrifying detachment of aerial warfare, in which destruction is reduced to spectacle and the physical distance between the bomber and the bombed becomes a moral alibi. Spare and precise, it is a meditation on language, violence, and the aestheticization of killing.
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