Who else has seen Checkpoint?

[ohiosmith]

Saw it yesterday for the first time.

In "Checkpoint," we watch the daily routine at the militarized border, and these issues are very much in the air. Palestinians stand waiting — sometimes for hours — to learn whether they can cross. Frustration is heaped onto indignity, and those who can't tell a convincing enough story to the Israeli soldiers are refused entry, no matter how innocent their intentions. The Palestinians — almost all of them ordinary and benign — think the checkpoints, the searches, the arguments, the capriciousness, the authoritarianism, are destructive and absurd. "Terrorists don't use checkpoints," one of them shouts while waiting in a long line. "You people caused all this trouble," a soldier snaps back at some of the grumpy Palestinians.

Fucking with people for the sake of fucking with people.