The fine line between being right and being righteous is at the center of Idan Haguel’s “Concerned Citizen.” The Tel Aviv-set film follows a young gay man living in a neighborhood that’s supposedly…
The fine line between being right and being righteous is at the center of Idan Haguel’s “.” The Tel Aviv-set film follows a young gay man living in a neighborhood that’s supposedly on the upswing who has to question whether his commitment to bettering this increasingly gentrified community is all that selfless — or whether, in fact, that moniker he uses to describe himself and which gives the film its title is a smokescreen for more unseemly sentiments about his immigrant neighbors.
When Ben plants a tree on the street right outside of his apartment, he feels as if he’s helping better the space for all those around. That is, until he sees from his balcony, two young Black neighbors casually hanging out by the still-fragile tree. He worries if they keep leaning on it, this added greenery will outright snap, only his pleasant if needlessly abrasive demands go mostly unheeded.
There’s a tidy conceit here with which Haguel sets to out Ben’s own privilege. The holier-than-thou attitude he and Raz display when discussing their real estate choices start to look insidious and compromising once it’s clear Ben may not be cut out to live in a building where human feces randomly show up at the communal vestibule. Maybe one of his neighbors is right about selling and moving away .
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