I started out attempting to write a witty, yet clever, yet accurate review of the short film West Bank Story that we viewed in class the other day. However, I realized something; I have no idea what to say!
Honestly, what can you say about a film that lasts less than 30 minutes and features grown men and women dancing around fast food restaurants in the hostile Middle East wearing ridiculous hats?
I will give the film props for originality, however. Even though it was the same story of star-crossed lovers destined yet forbidden to be together (the Middle East does seem like an ideal place for such a storyline, doesn't it?), I doubt many people would have looked at that traditional theme and said, "Hmm, you know what? Let's put them in competing fast food restaurants! Yes! Hummus vs. falafel! On top of that, let's make the feuding families perform fully choreographed musical numbers about falafel and hummus! It's brilliant!!!"
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