The Green Prince

Mosab Yousef was the son of a very high ranking Hamas chief. Mosab Yousef was a gun runner out to attack Israel. Mosab Yousef was also a spy. After being held prisoner by the Israeli security forces, Mosab Yousef agreed to work for the Shin Bet or the elite secret intelligence force of Israel while he worked for his father. This is his true life story of deception, fear and freedom.

The real question you come away from this film isn't the obvious one. You wont ask, about authenticity or whether Yousef was right in his actions. No you will ask a far broader and wider ranging question. Can you make a film about a subject so filled with problems of politics, in an unbiased and even handed way?

If you take this film as, then sadly no you couldnt. This film tells a story that is compelling and emotive but it does so under great strain. It doesn't want to call Shin bet or Israeli defense force actions into check. What it wants instead is to over simplify the Hamas problem. The film is filled with great craft, drama and narrative drive. Having said this it hasn't the bite of unbiased conversation. Both sides must see it from external and unbiased views. Otherwise what Yousef has done will count for little.