Chris Knight: The real question is not what Walaa wants but whether she’ll get it
Not to spoil the surprise, but What Walaa Wants is to be a police officer for the Palestinian Authority. It’s ironic when you consider that her mom is an ex-con who spent eight years in an Israeli prison for abetting a would-be suicide bomber.
“Palestinian Authority or not, when I’m 18 I’m getting a gun,” says the headstrong teenager early in the film. Yet when they want to take a blood sample in the police recruitment office she balks, and needs her mom to handhold her through it.
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