{"id":437,"date":"2014-07-10T14:09:57","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T14:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=437"},"modified":"2024-03-03T17:02:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T22:02:37","slug":"the-gatekeepers-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=437","title":{"rendered":"The Gatekeepers-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Gatekeepers-2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director Dror Moreh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring Ami Ayalon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott&#8217;s Review #103<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/70264711.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1196\" src=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/70264711-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"70264711\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/70264711-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/70264711.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed July 10, 2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade: B-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I truly wanted to love The Gatekeepers, an Oscar-nominated documentary from 2012, but only mildly enjoyed it.<\/p>\n<p>I find the nominating process and the award determination for documentaries baffling. In recent years it is beginning to mirror the Foreign Language film selection process.<\/p>\n<p>The one documentary of the five that is brilliant (How to Survive a Plague) did not win and the documentary that did win (Searching for Sugar Man) was good, but not great.<\/p>\n<p>The Gatekeepers explores an important, informative topic-the Israeli Secret Service. The documentary consisted of interviews with five former Secret Service members and was a tell-all of past situations and how the members handled the matters.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary also uses real footage and computer animation to explain how the Secret Service becomes involved in military activity.<\/p>\n<p>Important stuff, but it comes across as a bit dry and relatively dull.<\/p>\n<p>After thirty minutes I found myself looking at the clock and somewhat tuning out.<\/p>\n<p>I respect the documentary for its subject matter, but it could have used a bit of spice to keep things moving along.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oscar Nominations:<\/strong> Best Documentary-Feature<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gatekeepers-2012 Director Dror Moreh Starring Ami Ayalon Scott&#8217;s Review #103 Reviewed July 10, 2014 Grade: B- I truly wanted to love The Gatekeepers, an Oscar-nominated documentary from 2012, but only mildly enjoyed it. I find the nominating process and the award determination for documentaries baffling. In recent years it is beginning to mirror the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=437\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Gatekeepers-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":[6,46,3683,3682],"tags":[75,249,3685,3684],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-films","category-documentaries","category-dror-moreh","category-israeli","tag-2012-movie-reviews","tag-documentaries","tag-dror-moreh","tag-israeli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","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=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19989,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/19989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}