"Why was communication essential to understanding among the children of Promises?"
Promises is a documentary that reveals the feelings and
beliefs of seven children, all living near Jerusalem and also the documentary
exposes the Middle East conflict of the Palestine and Israelis. The seven children are; the twin Jews, Daniel
and Yarko; Faraj and Sanabel, Muslims that live in the Deheushe refugee camp;
Shlomo, the Orthodox Jew; Mahmoud, a Muslim, whom father owns a coffee shop;
and Moishe, a Jewish boy.
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| Left is Daniel & Right is Faraj |
Producer of the documentary, B.Z Goldberg, wants to get
all of the seven kids together and just have something that every kid should
have, fun. Goldberg’s idea of getting all the kid in one area was interesting,
but not all of them went, only two declined his offer. All of the seven kids
have their own little world, like a bubble, making it hard for them to belief
anything other than what they think is true. That’s why they refused to go,
because what Goldberg was doing was something that they weren’t interested in,
neither believed in the concept. But for the kids who went, Daniel, Yarko,
Mahmoud, Sanabel, Faraj, they experienced something that can never be taken
away from them, communication. After the kids had fun playing with each other
and just getting to know one and another, Goldberg brought them into a room to
discuss their feelings. In the moment, you can really see that all of the kids
had no idea how each and everyone felt about the Middle East conflict. For
every child there, their world or bubble extended to understand the
difficulties of both sides of the conflict. The friendships of all five
children present were established because of communication.
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| Faraj |
After four years, Goldberg comes back with yet another
documentary, but this time it’s a follow up, of the seven in Promises. In the follow up we get to see
what the seven children have been through and what they are up to. But once
again not every child could participate, only five made it to the
interviews. While watching the
interviews, Yarko, one of the twins, mentions that he stayed in touch with the
kids, but after a while less calls were made. Even though the children lost
touch, doesn’t mean they don’t know what is happening in each one of their
lives. Sanabel was shocked towards the news of Yarko and Daniel joining the
army, were she was afraid of them breaking into her house and having to kill
her.
Zig Ziglar once said,
“You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a
life”, the moment that B.Z Goldberg created for these kids was a huge impact on
them, as they learned the meaning of communication. Therefore communication was so essential to
the kids of Promises, because they
learned that if you don’t communicate, you will never understand one another,
you need to be able to talk in other to understand.
The definition ofcommunication is the “ interchange of thoughts, opinions, or information by
speech”, in other words interaction with something besides you and your world.
Imagine the world without communication it would be destroyed. If we don’t communicate
how are we suppose to understand each other and find a solution towards a
problem. How are we supposed to survive if communication wouldn’t be available?
In order to fix something broken you
need to be able to communicate with the problem. This is why communication is
important with in the seven children.
Promises Trailer:
