"Rubber Soul" and "Walk on Water"

I bought a copy of a CD version of the album "Rubber Soul" by The Beatles, because it has one of my favorite songs, "Norwegian Wood." On the other hand it also has a song that I find very annoying song, "Michelle." Besides having lyrics in bad French it is one of those songs that sticks in your mind after you hear it. Most of the rest of the album is mediocre at best. It has to be one of the most overrated albums that I have heard. I much prefer the Velvet Underground. They were much more original.

"Walk on Water" is an Israeli movie that I watched recently. It is about an Israeli assassin. At the beginning of the film he kills a Hamas leader with a lethal injection. He does this as he is walking past the man as he is walking with his wife and young son. After this his boss finds out that a man who had been responsible for the death of thousands of people in a concentration camp during World War II may be still alive. His granddaughter is living on a kibbutz, and her brother is going to visit her. The boss wants the assassin to pose as a tour guide and get information on the grandfather, who by the time this action is taking place would be very old.  Meanwhile the assassin's wife commits suicide, and there is concern about his emotional state. He takes on the new assignment. One of the reasons that he is given the assignment is that he speaks German, but he does not reveal that to the brother and sister. The brother and sister had been told that their grandfather had died shortly after the war. The sister had left home when she found out that her parents had helped the grandfather escape to South America. There is going to be a birthday for their party for their father, but she refuses to go. The assassin had bugged her room at the kibbutz, but they did not reveal anything about the grandfather until their last conversation. He had stopped listening at this point. He gave the tape to his boss. The brother returns to Germany. Before the brother returns to Germany the assassin learns that he is gay. After he returns to Germany the assassin is sent to Germany, because there are rumors that the grandfather might return there. Things get even more interesting from there. The assassin undergoes changes. I recommend this movie. It was directed by Eytan Fox who is openly gay. He also directed "Yossi and Jagger." I will write about that later.