As suggested by its tittle "Foxtrot," the film explores the repetitive, cyclical nature of the violence that ensues from the Israel-Palestine conflict and the IDF, both through the prism of family drama and the scope of individual suffering. Cyclicality is a recurrent theme in the film, and perhaps the only element the ties its seemingly-disparate acts into a cohesive, integrated plot: the film ends like it began, with mourning of the dead, new generations suffer the same tribulations that older ones did, and those who cause the death of others, end up dead themselves. I think that what Maoz is trying to illustrate through the cyclicality of its plot and the fate of its characters, is the nature of the Israel-Palestine conflict itself: that the violence and the death and suffering that ensues from it, generates a self-enforcing cycle that repeats itself across generations, leaving everything where it began, just like the Foxtrot dance. Though compelling in its abundant symbolism and its riveting cinematography, the film does leave something to be desired in a pace that is sometimes painfully slow and in stories that sometimes feel too far apart (ie., I would have loved to have seen the son interact with his parents).