Strangers

Strangers, the short film written and directed by Erez Tadmor and Guy Nattiv, show us the story of how two men religiously confronted turn to be allies in order to escape from a difficult situation they are suffering.


The film begins when a man walks into the train and sits right opposite another one. We know nothing about them but that one is a Muslim and the other one a Jewish. This is shown by a close up of the newspaper one of them is reading which is written in Arabic and by the reaction the other one have pulling out of his shirt a Jewish necklace.
They cross views to each other critically. A lot of tension is build.
After another stop in a station a group of gangs approach the two guys and surround them. It’s clear the gangs don’t like them and it’s even more evident when one of them paints a Nazi symbol on the newspaper the Muslim was reading. Here things get much tenser, the two men feel in a very uncomfortable situation. They both know there is no way to escape except they work together.

The structure of the novel is devided in three main parts. The first one when the two main characters are sitted in the train and they cross views judgin themselfs. The second part is when the group of gangs intimidates them. And the third one when they get to escape from the gangs.

This is a very interesting film to watch, and analyse taking into account there is not even a word said in the whole of it. There is a very good labour of the directors that by the sounds and camara shots transmit the exact emotions the film goes through. First when the two men are sited alone the camara shots and close ups of their faces and main objects transmits us the rivality it exists between them. When the gangs appear, the sound plays a very important role that, together with some camara shots, builds up the tension which is actually a lot.

I think this short film was very interesting and had a lot of aspects I could focus in for being the first film I had to analyze.