Short wi Fanella wi Cap

A mix of political farce, a bit of romance add some adventure and here you are with a movie for people to watch during the holiday. The political side of the movie, though having a great and strong idea behind it, was presented in a very diluted and extra exaggerated comic manner. But at least this way would make their point clear and be able to communicate it even to the simplest of people.

I admit that I did like the romantic part of it. Some scenes had truth in them. They were nice.

The movie showed a sharp contrast between the older Arab generation which were reflected in the actions of the ministers attending the conference and how they fought each other and were unable to get over their hate for one another on one side, and the love shared by two persons from different Arab countries, namely Egypt and Lebanon, and how this love can be the answer to all our questions. The movie is sarcastic about the older Arab generation and at the same time gives hope in the new generation portrayed by the Egyptian and Lebanese hero's of the movie.

Another feature of the movie was it's portrayal of the media and how they aggressively look for news and the way in which they deal with it. This is something often strongly present in American movies, but has not appeared before with this strength and this similarly to American movies in any Arabic movie before this one.

Though the movie does have a few 'action' scenes of fights, and also involved the money element lightly, yet it cannot be considered an energy movie at all. It did not even get near the element of sex but used romance instead.

In conclusion, though the movie did have a strong political message behind it, did have a nice romantic story and scenes and was not by any means an energy movie, yet it's lack of coherence loss of focus and fragmented story bits make the movie a strong idea but poorly implemented.

Zawag Bi Karar Gomhori

This movie was really coragous. To involve the character of the current President of Egypt in it was something unserpassed. To involve him not just by mentiong but by getting his double in some, even if very short, shots of the movie was really something amazing for Egyptian movie making. Egyptian movies who involved talking or displaying the characters of Egyptian Presidents only did that with presidents who have already passed by. But to do it with someone who is currently a President at the time of shooting and displaying the movie, this was really, really new.

Egyptian movies seem to be moving in the right direction. They are becoming more open and touching upon more sensitive issues which have been left all together in the past.

The mocking of officials in this movie is not something new. But the way it was presented was really down to earth and strong. I touched strongly yet with simplicity and directness on the problems poor people are facing in the slums of Egypt and the system by which officials work to 'solve' those problems. Of course the movie was exagerating the picture and focusing on what may be present in actual life but in limited cases. Yet exageration is a technique used in art to communicate ones point and make it clear. So, no problem with that, as long as strangers, or simple minded people get the idea that this is actually the pravalent system with all officials in the country.

The movie was very interesting. It succeded in saying all it wanted to say under recently popular mask of comic action.

I enjoyed the movie. I liked it.