Thursday, June 04, 2009

Of failure in getting out of my shell/ A horrible experience with Omar & Salma

Ok, this might be offending to some people, especially those who like "comedy" and Negm el geel "Tamer Hosny" so if you're one of those, please stop reading now and delete this mail from your list, I am not intending to take back anything mentioned here. Based on a very stressful mood I am in due to work load, work problems, Exams, summer and others, and based on a strong recommendation from my boss -who is one of my very close friends- to "get out of my shell, my comfort zone, have more acceptance for others, develop some tolerance, get close to our consumers and what they watch and read, get down from my ivory tower and live on earth even if I don't like many things surrounding me" bla bla bla... and based on a request from two dear colleagues to go out with them and "totally plan the outing, we trust it will be good" I decided to go for a movie "Omar and Salma" after a nice dinner. While shocked from my choice, my colleagues agreed happily that finally Meto will fight his deppression and go do something cheerful. So we went.... What a horrible movie, what a waste of time and money, not mention, my nerves.... my poor nerves that are already eroded on daily bases from many things. I went home after the movie cursing everything and everyone related to it even the usher who took us to our seats! Yes when I'm angry I go extreme. Now why do I call the movie horrible, here are some of the things that annoyed me more than you can ever imagine: - The whole movie is lacking quality in every single aspect, the script appears like a group of friends were having a cool "2a3da" and they decided "matyalla ne3mel film tahyees keda" and they really did it. No story, no script, no built dialogues, no anything!!! - The movie is full of useless sexual connotations with almost every single character that appeared, a son and his father, a 4 years old girl and her parents. It is very obvious that they have nothing to do with the script (assuming there is one asslan) but they are just there to make people "laugh". - The film tackles the issue of the transformation that the after-marriage life of a young couple is subjected to. Don't expect to see anything as serious as the previous sentence, even betrayal, divorce, bringing up kids and child abuse are tackled in a very superficial and childish way! - If I start to mention the number of ethics and values that have been deformed in the movie I need a book, but here are example, the way the married couple deal with each other (two gangsters), the way the children talk to their parents, the way the son talks to his father, the teacher and the way he is portrayed, the neighbors, the caretaker of the building, every single character that appeared in the movie is literally deformed! Finally, I went home, running as much as possible from the cinema and the audience who were laughing their hearts out, cursing every single person i ran into till I went home, wondering what will be the effect of such film on the extremely young children who were in the cinema, I wanted to ask one of the mothers or the fathers "What do you think this film will do to your son or daughter?" but for sure I excluded the idea, if a parent is careless enough to take their child to such movie, for sure any "reasonable" conversation is useless. I cannot blame the filmmakers, they have the "noble" cause of making people "laugh", aren't we experts of making fun of our problems and laughing at ourselves, "ommal nemawet nafsena ya3ny?" I blame the audience- including myself- for going to such movies, wasting time, money and a whole generation of kids. After all, "He who has no audience will never sing again" Finally, I reached the conclusion that this will be the last time in trying to get out of my shell and giving things that I do not like a second chance. I'd rather stay as I am, liking what I like and hating what I hate. And I have to run now to have a big fight with my boss where I will make him regret advising me of "challenging my own staus quo", I love, I adore, I worship my status quo!!!