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INCITEMENT

What You Need To Know:

INCITEMENT is an acclaimed docudrama from Israel that follows the man who assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Rabin in 1995. The movie is based on extensive interviews with the real assassin. It shows the assassin upset about Rabin’s acceptance of the Oslo Accords between Israel and the PLO, which was led by a well-known Arab terrorist. The assassin believes Rabin is putting Israel in danger, but he consults with rabbis and his father about whether it’s morally right, according to biblical law, to kill a man who’s putting his country in such danger.

INCITEMENT has some moral, biblical elements. Many Jewish, biblical traditions and teachings are discussed. Also, the assassin’s father puts an importance on family and education. He also tells his son violence isn’t the answer. However, the movie blames Rabin’s conservative opponents for the assassination, which is like blaming Bernie Sanders for the Sanders supporter who tried to murder Republican congressmen on a baseball field in 2017. This seems to let the assassin off the hook for his own evil actions. Also, INCITEMENT contains lots of violence and some foul language.

Content:

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:
Strong pagan, politically correct worldview that blames a liberal politician’s conservative opponents for his assassination and thus lets the assassin off the hook, mixed with some moral, biblical elements such as Israeli Prime Minister talks about peace, respect and wanting to end hostility, assassin’s fathers tells him violence is not the answer, the importance of education and family is stressed, a marriage ceremony is shown, a Jewish hymn is sung, teaching of the Torah is shown multiple times, a conversation occurs about God’s will and how He determines all, and assassin has several conversations with Orthodox, Conservative Jewish rabbis about right and wrong and how to follow the law as best as possible, but what he’s consulting them about is if it’s okay to assassinate another Jew if that Jew is doing something that could greatly harm Israel

Foul Language:
10 obscenities

Violence:
Dead bodies covered in blood depicted from old footage, different war weapons were shown like guns and knives, rioters take knives to photos of the prime minister to show their distaste for him, man goes to gun range to practice, rioting, real footage of a man assassinating the Israeli Prime Minister in 1995

Sex:
No sex

Nudity:
No nudity

Alcohol Use:
No alcohol

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:
One instance of cigarette smoking; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:
Some characters are judged based on their ethnicity and what region their family comes from and man planning a political assassination lies to people coming on his retreat in order to try and recruit them for his mission.

More Detail:

INCITEMENT is an acclaimed docudrama from Israel that follows a college student in the year leading up to his assassination of Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. Told from the assassin’s point of view, INCITEMENT is more of a docudrama than a thriller and seems to let the assassin off the hook by blaming the conservative opponents of Rabin for inciting the assassin.

The movie opens with a man cleaning graves and a real-life speech from Prime Minister Rabin at the White House alongside President Bill Clinton. Rabin has just signed the Oslo Accords with Yasser Arafat, the terrorist leader of the Palestinians. Rabin talks about peace, respect and wanting to end hostility. This speech, along with him joining forces with Clinton and Arafat, enrage many Israelis, especially a young man named Yigal.

Yigal is a college student studying law. He’s very well-educated and went to many good schools throughout his education career. He is sitting at home with his family when watching another one of Rabin’s speeches and is completely enraged, and it’s made very known to the audience because his father turns the TV off.

This is when Yigal starts studying the law and the Torah very closely and comparing them. In his mind he convinces himself that because of the position in which Prime Minister Rabin has put the country, and because of all the innocent people dying from Palestinian acts of terror, that it would be okay to murder Rabin. However, even when he comes to this conclusion, he is torn within himself on what to do about the situation. He believes democracy will take over by giving more power to the Palestinians and hurt more Jews.

Yigal sets off on a mission to make his plan come to fruition. Along with trying to recruit others to help him, he also wants to continue to get approval from Rabbi’s that what he wants to do is okay within his religion. Yigal consults many, and none of them tell him outright either way what to do, although Yigal assumes that, deep down, they also want the Prime Minister dead.

Along the way, Yigal is also focused on his love life. He has been raised to find a wife, and he thinks he’s found her. However, when both families are critical about the other, it ends his plans, and he is forced to start over. However, it doesn’t take him long to find someone else that could meet his desire.

Yigal and a few of his friends believe they’ve found a way to get rid of Rabin without anyone knowing it was them. That plan fails, however, and they’re forced to plan a much more public way to get rid of the Prime Minister. This plan takes places during election time when throngs of people are gathered outside to listen to Rabin speak.

Based on real interviews with the assassin, INCITEMENT is an inside look at the mind of the assassin who killed Prime Minister Rabin. The movie is not so much a thriller as it is a docudrama that uses footage from the real events intertwined with the assassin’s story of Yigal. The movie is sometimes hard to follow because of the subtitles and could also be hard to follow if the viewer doesn’t know anything about the Oslo Accords or the assassination of Prime Minister Rabin.

INCITEMENT has some moral, biblical elements. For example, many Jewish, biblical religious traditions and teachings are discussed. Also, the assassin’s father puts an importance on family and education. He also tells his son that violence isn’t the answer. However, the movie blames Rabin’s conservative political opponents for the assassination, which is like blaming Bernie Sanders for the Bernie Sanders supporter who tried to murder Republican congressmen on a baseball field in 2017. This seems to let the assassin off the hook for his own evil actions. Thus, the filmmakers seem to take a politically correct view because they like Rabin’s liberal policies and hate the policies of Rabin’s conservative opponents. Also, INCITEMENT contains a lot of violence. A killing is depicted, dead bodies covered in blood are shown, and there are many conversations about whether it’s right or wrong to assassinate someone doing his country wrong.

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Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content. We’re proud to say we’ve collaborated with some of the top industry players to influence and redeem entertainment for Jesus. Still, the most influential person in Hollywood is you. The viewer.

What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.

You can make a difference with as little as $7. It takes only a moment. If you can, consider supporting our ministry with a monthly gift. Thank you.

Movieguide® is a 501c3 and all donations are tax deductible.


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