The Attack is a novel about an surgeon in Tel Aviv who learns a devasting secret about his wife's involvement in a suicide bombing, and it is set to become a movie.

From Hollywood Reporter through Reuters. The story was written by an Algerian soldier who had to adopt a pen name to avoid military censorship. It tells will be directed and adapted by Lebanese filmmaker Ziad Doueiri, Joelle Touma will adapt the novel along with him. Doueiri has worked as an assitant cameraman with Quentin Tarantino, so presumably he's picked up some tips along the way.

It's interesting to see how a sensitive subject such as suicide bombing is handled on film when it is the centre of a plot. When it's a sideline or a protaginist of some thriller plot then you'll just see them as pure evil, sometimes insane, and they blow themselves up. However, when they become the focus of the film you see the viewpoint change, and the film will look at them from a different angle, as in this tale we'll see them through the eyes of the husband.

For me these are the films that are insightful and thought provoking, the other thrillers can be good, but these tales really look at the why, the how and the who, rather than a templated character.

What do you think about this story, and indeed about films that portray terrorists at the centre of their plot?