{"id":3625,"date":"2016-07-22T20:13:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T00:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=3625"},"modified":"2024-02-06T17:52:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T22:52:26","slug":"5-broken-cameras-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=3625","title":{"rendered":"5 Broken Cameras-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>5 Broken Cameras-2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director Emad Burnat, Guy Davida<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring Emad Burnat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott\u2019s Review #452<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/70229917.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3626\" src=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/70229917-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"70229917\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/70229917-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/70229917.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed July 22, 2016<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade: B-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>5 Broken Cameras is a 2012 documentary spoken in the Arabic language, which received critical acclaim upon release and heaps of award nominations.<\/p>\n<p>A documentary about a Palestinian farmer, Emad Burnat who recounts Israeli soldiers overtaking his land for several years, it became a Best Documentary Oscar nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Non-political in his life, Emad is threatened as the Israelis build a wall through his land, which he refuses to part with.<\/p>\n<p>As important as the subject matter is, it never really captured my attention and I found it to drag a bit, which pains me to say because I was hoping to be really into it, given the topic.<\/p>\n<p>This could simply be my opinion since it is a critically acclaimed piece.<\/p>\n<p>I would have voted in the far superior Invisible War, from the same year, for Oscar glory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oscar Nominations:\u00a0<\/strong>Best Documentary-Feature<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 Broken Cameras-2012 Director Emad Burnat, Guy Davida Starring Emad Burnat Scott\u2019s Review #452 Reviewed July 22, 2016 Grade: B- 5 Broken Cameras is a 2012 documentary spoken in the Arabic language, which received critical acclaim upon release and heaps of award nominations. A documentary about a Palestinian farmer, Emad Burnat who recounts Israeli soldiers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=3625\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">5 Broken Cameras-2012<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3490,46,3491,3492,35,300],"tags":[75,3493,249,3494,3495,67,301],"class_list":["post-3625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-films","category-arabic","category-documentaries","category-emad-burnat","category-guy-davidi","category-foreignfilms","category-foreign-documentaries","tag-2012-movie-reviews","tag-arabic","tag-documentaries","tag-emad-burnat","tag-guy-davidi","tag-foreign-language-films","tag-foreign-documentaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3625"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19933,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625\/revisions\/19933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}