Movie: The Gatekeepers

"The Gatekeepers" is a documentary about the issue of when morality condones the use of violence for security purposes. As reviewed in The New York Times, the movie "consists of interviews with six men (former agents of Shin Bet, Israel's security agency), all of them retired, most of them bald, one of them a grandfatherly type, well into his 80s, in suspenders and a plaid shirt. They reminisce about past triumphs and frustrations. ... It is hard to imagine a movie about the Middle East that could be more timely, more painfully urgent, more challenging to conventional wisdom on all sides of the conflict. ... (The movie provides) rare, welcome and almost unbearable clarity." $3.