In seven Rotten Tomatoes’ “top critics” who have undergone to critic Jeruzalem, only two of them didn’t trash it. I don’t usually enjoy the horror genre, but there are some exceptions. This is a goreless horror, and it’s somehow brilliant. I don’t understand the low reaction and more than that, I don’t understand the low rating the movie achieved. It may be incorrect to define the IMDB voters as retarded because I’m one of them and everyone is “free” to think and have different opinions. I’m disappointed because this is not the only movie which didn’t resonate with the ordinary public. I’ll write a small pill about it, to better explain what I wanted to say.
Danielle Jadelyn and Yael Grobglas in a pose for Instagram – Jeruzalem
[source for all pics: imdb.com]
Jeruzalem – Plot and Thoughts
After we’re presented in the very beginning with a short esoteric snuff recording, presumably from 1972 AD, we’re sent to present days. Sarah and Rachel are two American students and friends. Rachel’s brother recently died in an accident. Now, Sarah convinces Rachel to go on a trip to Tel Aviv, to soothe her painful loss. Rachel’s father gives Rachel a pair of Google Glass which fortunately was made with her diopters. In the plane, they meet Kevin, an anthropology student fascinated by world religions and myths. He convinces the girls to go to Jerusalem instead of Tel Aviv. By the way, all of them are of Jewish heritage, which in Israel may be of great help. Rachel communicates with her father on every occasion through her smart glasses, and I found it very original to make the movie “through the looking glass”. In 2015, these glasses were very en vogue and sold with $1,500 to a restricted group of American citizens. I’m certain it was an unashamed promotion for a scarce product, but eventually, it came handy. Rachel had to run in panic when the time came, and she couldn’t record the events through a classic camera. But, no spoilers, folks, as I have already accustomed you.
Rachel fancies Kevin, who was nicknamed Indiana Jones because of his looks and attire, Indiana’s hat included. Kevin proposes to them to go to a hostel in Jerusalem’s Old Town. There they all encounter Omar, a sleek Palestinian who happens to be also the hostel owner’s sun. He fancies the blonde Sarah, who is also a party girl. In the evening, Omar takes all three out in town, to party. Next day, some events happen. Next day is actually Yom Kippur, a day when all the three gates to Hell will open.
Fares Hananya and Tom Graziani in Jeruzalem
The snuff movie from the beginning was about a lady who died and returned home from the dead on Yom Kippur, only she was closer to Stephen King’s characters in The Pet Cemetery. She had a son. When Kevin and the girls arrive in Jerusalem, that guy was rambling the Old City streets claiming he’s King David. Kevin showed Rachel the movie posted now on an onion website in “the dark web”. Like an amateur medium, he senses that something will happen and he tries to tell the girls to leave the city. All of them think he hallucinates and Omar arranges for him to be treated to a sanatorium/asylum they already visited the previous day.
What happens next is left unexplained by the authorities, but they sealed the Old City for “good” reasons, as they do in Resident Evil. Rachel, Sarah, and Omar accompanied by two Israeli soldiers, try to run out but Rachel wants to take Kevin with them.
From now on, is up to you to watch what happens next. The “Z” in the title comes from zombies. They’re not traditional, they are allegedly “biblical”.
Cast
Yael Grobglas is Rachel Klein, Sarah’s friend. Yon Tumarkin is Kevin Reed, the anthropologist. Danielle Jadelyn is Sarah Pullman. Tom Graziani is Omar, the hostel’s clerk. Sarel Piterman is a young priest. Howard Rypp is Howard Pullman, Rachel’s father. Yoav Koresh is Yehuda, an Israeli soldier. Ori Zaltzman is Tomer, another Israeli soldier. Fares Hananya is Fauzi, Omar’s father and the hostel’s owner. Itsko Yampulski is “King David”.
Jeruzalem – Poster
Jeruzalem has been written and directed by Doron Paz and Yoav Paz, both Israeli filmmakers.
The Israeli-Palestinian animosity is shown through an Israeli view, they all live together and the Arabs are speaking dirty to the military. Very funny. They all can be friends there, but they can’t because of the propaganda.
Trailer
The trailer is as good as it gets. A little bit revealing, but that’s ok.
I really liked Jeruzalem, no matter the pompous critics and downvotes. I’m curious what you really think.
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Thanks for your write-up. I also believe that laptop computers are getting to be more and more popular currently, and now are sometimes the only kind of computer included in a household. The reason is that at the same time actually becoming more and more inexpensive, their processing power keeps growing to the point where these are as potent as desktop computers from just a few years ago.
Jeezus Christ!?!??