Die letzten Männer von Aleppo (2017)

Die letzten Männer von Aleppo: Directed by Feras Fayyad, Steen Johannessen. With Khaled Umar Harah, Batul, Mahmoud, Abu Umar. Khaled, Mahmoud and Subhi volunteer with the White Helmets trying to save lives of hundreds of victims in the besieged city of Aleppo during the Syrian Civil War.

“Ooff….I canu0026#39;t even.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eHow do you review a movie like u0026quot;Last Men in Aleppo?u0026quot; Itu0026#39;s about as opposite from entertaining as youu0026#39;re likely to get, yet it should be watched by everybody. Itu0026#39;s incredibly urgent, yet itu0026#39;s so lacking in hope that it seems naive to think it will inspire any kind of action or change. Itu0026#39;s basically an obituary for a country that hasnu0026#39;t completely died yet, but is certainly dying. And doing so while the world stands back and watches.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eLast year, the film that won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject was about a member of the White Helmets, a volunteer emergency response group in Syria. He enjoyed 15 minutes of fame when footage of him pulling a living baby from rubble circulated the Internet. That man is now the focus of u0026quot;Last Men in Aleppo,u0026quot; a film that chronicles his life and eventual death as a member of the White Helmets. Whereas u0026quot;The White Helmets,u0026quot; in that image of a rescued baby, offered some ounce of hope to cling to, u0026quot;Last Men in Aleppou0026quot; offers nothing but despair. Itu0026#39;s the kind of movie that makes it difficult to go about your daily life. The mundane minutiae of being a privileged American — my biggest annoyance right now is that the motion-sensor light on my garage needs to be replaced — make me almost embarrassed to enjoy a life of extreme luxury compared to the living conditions of these poor poor people in Syria. That the developed world stood back and watched this conflict happen with a shrug of its collective shoulders will go down in history as one of its most shameful moments.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eGrade: A”