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.