.. or, Walk on Water!
Lately, I have been drawn more toward watching foreign languages films mainly due to my own subliminal desire to glimpse, feel and be belonged to the expressions of zeitgeist from around the world. Walk on Water (WOW) did fulfill my desire. It is simple yet gripping. It has an ending, contrived and feel good as it may be, that leaves you with a wish to see more such realizations. As one of the protagonists says it is possible to walk on water when your heart is pure and filled with positive thoughts, it is still possible for coexistence based on common grounds and reconciliation even among seemingly the archest of enemies.
The plot primarily brings together Eyal, a Mossad assassin, who has a mid-life crisis to overcome and Axel, a German peacenik, who is schwul (Gay) and has a Nazi lineage. Bringing context to their interactions are uncommon stereotypes such as Rafik – the Palestenian Gay guy whom Axel picks up, Pia – Axels guilt-ridden sister who has decided to live in Israel, and Menachem – the professorly, Mossad boss, who has to get a 90-year old Nazi before God does!
Interesting and refreshing for me are the paradoxical “stereotypes” that are shown — a Gay, German guy who has not bedded another German; a Jewish assassin, who cannot kill his enemy anymore; a German Gay bartender, who is a possible racist; a Gay, Arab, who wont mind making a quick €100 off his German one night stand but can muster up to tell the Jewish protagonist not to be stuck in the past. It is a world full of stereotypes and yet people painted with such broad brushes share more things in common than we realize with “other” stereotypes.
Now, to nitpick: Not sure how you can carry a firearm into another country. May be if you are secret service! For the most sophisticated intelligence agency, why one needs to carry a scrapbook-like dossier on your target all the time?
Lastly, who Eyal (Lior Ashkenazi) ends up with – rather, how the story ends – is fantastic & (yet) plausible and that’s what WOW is about.
Watch the trailer of Tu Marcheras Sur L’Eau – the French (title) version of Lalekhet Al HaMayim – from Director Eytan Fox below:
Tags: Europa, Eytan Fox, Hebrew Films, Israel, Israellywood, Jambajaar, Lior Ashkenazi, Movies
![Yíhé Yuán, del Sol [2/2]](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7018/6598785693_871de66fff_s.jpg)
![Yíhé Yuán, del Sol [1/2]](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7005/6598770751_501e709ac3_s.jpg)
