Yacoubian Building Under Attack...
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Yacoubian Building is a book I enjoyed reading and the movie was only an ok watch due to the extensive commercialisation of the story that was done...
In the time being, some of the Egyptian MPs did not agree with me and many other people I know who have watched the movie...and the MPs took a similar stand to my Tunisian French colleague who saw the movie but then expressed how he things that not everything that exits in reality is to be put in a movie...I think that would make any movie nothing but a manifestation of the hypocrisy of this society and culture...
I just hope that the Egyptians will not let some MP decide on what is it that they are to watch or read...(like with the banning of the Da Vinci Code, both the movie and the book, the latter a few years after its been available in most English bookstores, even more ironically books written about the Da Vinci Code are still on sale in bookstores!!)
Some bloggers have already been talking about this and there have been a number of responses...Some of the responses were extremely funny (ironically)...
posted by Tamer at
6:50 PM
7 Comments:
I was personally very disturbed by the movie but I think that that was the point! The movie was supposed to shock you, to show you parts of reality that you probably wish you didn't know. It shows you why people do what they do, shows you that people are alot more complicated than you think. Maybe having all these negative things in one movie was too much for me to bear but its a very good movie because of the fact that it made me feel so uncomfortable and hopeless.
welcome back
hey dude,
I am back inCairo on Wednesday hope to see you and thaty you are in town!
to be honest...i didn't like the book, though, the concept was briliant, but it was a poor literature, and very cheap stuffed materials in it. It can be considered as a very good criticism tool against life in Egypt today, but not anything that can be related to literature
Awesome to hear that you are coming back, we definitely to get together...give me a call once you are here...
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i seen the film recently,and it is agood one both in form and content.adding to that the panel of god and respectable actors (all the actors by theway).finnaly i want to say that this film is the manifestation that art serve to tackle problems than anythings eslse.
ziad morocco
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