“The Band’s Visit” is rich in the many ways the audience can relate to it. The multiple scenes that showed arguments between family, sad conversations about death and self-blame, and the struggles characters face with love are all scenes that many if not all of us have experienced or at least known someone who has experienced them. “The Band’s Visit” was less about the differences between the Arab band and the Israeli locals but instead more about what they had in common and the musical did this seamlessly.  That being said, while the musical didn’t focus on the differences between the characters it did highlight the cultural differences through the music and the songs by having that real, ethnic sound to it; for example by incorporating the tabla, the bongo-like instrument.

To end this blog post I’d like to show a comment I read from when I watched the trailer for the movie on Youtube.

This comment really resonated with me. After watching “The Band’s Visit,” I was inspired in the sense that in a world where there’s so much tension and hate, finding commonalities and making meaningful connections between different groups of people  like the locals did with the band could make the world a better place. I feel like that’s really what “The Band’s Visit” is about: inspiring an audience to accomplish what many would deem as only a dream— different groups of people peacefully coexisting.