We're back to our AFS Middle Eastern films at the Alamo S. Lamar. Tonight was a film about a young boy's tragic journey into fundamental Islam. His adolescent sexual desires, his relationship to his mother and the neighbor prostitute are riddled with conflict which plays right into the hands of his Imams. The acting is superb, the editing could have been better. A tragic depressing ending and as the film was made in 1999 it was prescient in it's depiction of this young man from Egypt who wanted to be a pilot.
Of course Chale Nafus handed out 4 single spaced pages of background info. AFS is definitely a favorite of ours!
I am interested in seeing films from this cultural perspective. Thanks for sharing!
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