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'Ahed's Knee' may be disorienting, but we're talking about the declaration of a frustrated filmmaker here, so the somewhat impenetrable approach is more than understandable. By telling a story within a story about Israeli soldiers taking cyanide pills in case they're captured during battle, Nadav Lapid makes a sad but precise comparison with art: being an artist in a warmongering country requires you to surrender to it; if not, then you don't deserve to live in a God-picked land. Lapid takes us into the middle of his identity conflict with his newest film: is it ok to hate everything your country represents? This is transgressive cinema at its finest.