Man From Plains
Last year, former president Jimmy Carter published a book on the future
of the Middle East mess, provocatively titled Palestine: Peace Not
Apartheid. It made for quite a book tour. In Man from Plains, director
Jonathan Demme chronicles the tour, with its attendant protests, Al
Jazeera interviews, face-offs with seriously upset American rabbis,
dialogues with college students, and regular dips in hotel pools. It's
a backstage look at the modern mechanics of political persuasion and,
while extremely repetitive--
interview or local Barnes & Noble appearance has gone
unchronicled-
incite debate; he wanted to push beyond the agreed-upon (and often
stale) norms for American discourse on the Israeli-Palestinian problem.
The tension of the movie becomes whether he will accomplish anything
more than that--whether deliberately enraging a large number of made-up
minds will create an opening for a new discussion and lay the
foundation for changes of heart, or whether it will just sell a lot of
books and, in the end, change nothing.
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