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Maktub (2017)

Maktub (2017)

GENRESComedy,Drama
LANGHebrew
ACTOR
Guy AmirHanan SavyonGal AmitaiChen Amsalem
DIRECTOR
Oded Raz

SYNOPSICS

Maktub (2017) is a Hebrew movie. Oded Raz has directed this movie. Guy Amir,Hanan Savyon,Gal Amitai,Chen Amsalem are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2017. Maktub (2017) is considered one of the best Comedy,Drama movie in India and around the world.

The biggest Israeli blockbuster since 1986 . Steve and Chuma , two criminals are the sole survivors of a terrorist attack at a restaurant in Jerusalem. They decide to change their ways and become flesh and blood angels. They go on a journey of wish fulfillment for people who write requests on paper and put between the sacred stones of the Wailing Wall.

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Maktub (2017) Reviews

  • Two goons respond to a miracle by performing God's work on earth.

    maurice_yacowar2018-05-11

    For all its echoes of Pulp Fiction and In Bruges, this romantic comedy about two goons converting to goodness is distinctly Israeli. Perhaps only in Israel can virtue and self-realization be planted in the pragmatism of well-meaning deception and cons. Having pretended goodness to perform their evil, our improbable heroes now play dishonesties to do good. Steve and Chuma start out as a Good Thug/Bad Thug team of collectors for a boss that extorts protection money. They collaborate smoothly, though constantly bickering over matters like Steve's new shirt's stain - blood or pomegranate concentrate? When they miraculously survive a terrorist bombing in Jerusalem Chuma takes that to be the first of a series of "signs," messages and directions from the beyond. So a jackass walks by at mention of their boss and Chuma tells himself that one white car will be followed by five more. There is order in the apparent chaos of our life. Other signs fall from above, like a dead fish and a marble-like false eye. These apparent miracles have logical foundation. Steve pretends to another such an influence after he snips his abandoned son's hair to get a DNA test sample, then looks skyward to explain the motion. They decide the signs direct them to quit the criminal business. They steal the boss's last payoffs and plan to start a fish kebab food truck in New York. But first those heavenly signs prompt them to do some good deeds. For leads they steal prayer notes left in the Wailing Wall. Our cons set out to do God's work on earth, by intercepting prayers and fulfilling them. Their beneficiaries consider them angels. To preserve the purity of their intentions, both spurn intimacies offered by the women they've helped. Chuma has been doing that already, with his paternal generosity to the wife and son Steve abandoned (suspecting his illegitimacy). Chuma says he's conveying Steve's gifts but he is acting from his own heart and conscience. The cons agree the wishes must be granted literally, completely. That draws on the Jewish faith in the power of the word and moral commitment to "the word" in any pledge. (The theme impels The Merchant of Venice). When they're helping the woman who prayed to get pregnant, we expect it might involve one of them in a carnal intervention. But no. Respecting the purity of her prayer they run her "miracle" through her husband. She is the third woman from whom our heroes abstain - and she saves their lives. The plots interconnect with such an ironic twist that our heroes' actions and fate could tempt some of us to believe in divine intervention. But God is absent from this comic noir. A few Orthodox Jews stud the backdrop and the Wailing Wall figures prominently, but of synagogues, sermons and other religious rites there is nothing. Instead, there is the numbing effect of having lost one's father. Absent the Father, there is also the absence of the father. On both scales man must live by dealing with the sense of abandonment. Steve and his sister were abandoned by their father, so Steve flees the responsibility of being one himself, especially when he has the excuse of having been found sterile. When he declines his helped woman's offer of a relationship she understands: "I know the sad eyes of a boy who doesn't have a father." Steve's son prays his unknown father will attend his football trip, then that his loving Chuma would be his dad. Spoiler alert: he gets both. Our heroes' lives are saved by another miraculous conception, another assumed sterility overruled by a benefit of nature (aka God).

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  • Excellent film

    aorlov-331922018-10-16

    Very entertaining, touching and well played. Great work!!! Well, I didn't expect anything else from Guy Amir and Hanan Savyon. Simply exceptional!

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