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(redirected from Fly-on-the-wall)

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The fly-on-the-wall perspective of the documentary allows for an extremely candid portrayal of the band members' personal and professional lives, while seamless editing moves the story back and forth across time to uncover further layers of the highly emotional struggle.
Reminiscent perhaps of the Palestinian director/actor Elia Suleiman (whom Sinnokrot greatly admires), who in "Divine Intervention" bears witness, with his fly-on-the-wall persona, to the bullying and humiliating of Palestinians at an Israeli checkpoint.
There's plenty of buffoonery to be sure, but the film -- superbly written by Peter Morgan, who co-wrote ``The Last King of Scotland'' -- has ambitions greater than being simply a fly-on-the-wall look at the supremely silly and spoiled.
 
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