The Insult (2017)

This is the very last movie that was nominated for an Academy Award in 2017 that I had not seen--so now I have seen all 59 movies, and I have to say, this one would be my choice for Best Foreign Language film (although I thought the one that won was very good.
Lebanon is the home to a diverse religious and ethnic groups, which is shorthand for saying there is a lot of division and violence around it.  The beginning of the story starts small.Yasser is a Palestinian doing street repairs.  The Palestinian's are shunned everywhere, and treated much like immigrants in the United States--they do jobs that no one else does, and are spit upon for it.  Tony has an illegal spout coming off his second floor patio that spills water on Yassers head.  Yasser is very annoyed, yells, and Tony is belligerent.  Yasser then fixes the pipe, and Tony destroys it.  Yasser swears at him.  Neither comes off well, but Tony is definitely entitled and unreasonable, demanding that Yasser apologize to him or be fired.  The situation escalates between them, and when Tony takes Yasser to court, it ignites the country.  What begins as a local dispute leads to rioting in the street, and then in the end, Yasser and Tony see that they are not all that different after all.  A close up look at pointless violence, something that we are experiencing in the US as well.  History is doomed to be repeated.