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Thoughts on Incendies? I am convinced that it is hugely self-censored. Its quite clear that the setting takes place in the Lebanese civil war.
The movie obfuscates the historical setting by making up names of the cities, however it does not make up names for Canada. For an average western viewer, it could very well be any arab country, after all a place in the middle east where muslim fundamentalists fight christians sounds like any day of the week!
However there are some very obvious references and breadcrumbs to the region, a muslim refugee wears a black and white keffiyeh, a scene there is a sticker in a window that says Palestine, another scene has a half view of a flag that could be very well jordan flag or palestine flag, it is not clear which. The movie itself was filmed in Jordan, so they definitely filmed a Jordan flag but in a way that it is not clear so it makes us think it's the palestine flag. There are several more references, however i couldn't see a single reference towards Israel and i was paying very close attention.
The movie is almost 2 decades old, quite before it was plain clear to the mainstream that Israel has been waging war in the region so i imagine the director was very careful here and engaged in self-censorship, which i find disgusting because it clearly gives Israel some plausible deniability of their huge involvement in the war, ffs they leveled and occupied half the country how can you omit this.