I've seldom seen so much police brutality under a 'democracy'.
And in fact this movie, set on 2011 revolutionary times in Egypt, show what happens when the people can't bear enough.
There, on camera, it seems too much to be endured by the people, specially given the corruption everywhere. And maybe they are: social classes, specially the very poor (Salwa), the low middle class (the corrupt cops) and the mega rich (Hatem) show all the contradictions of capitalist society painfully. The 'cinema verité' approach, nervous camera, gritty social conditions, 'trust nobody' psychology, cheap music, 'public project' (cheap) buildings shot as if they were the main character. Nobody is very clean morally yet this Nordic film shot in Egypt succeeds because of that, it doesn't preach when the truth is all there is to have. Gina is very beautiful but also, not a very nice character. People like Salwa or 'Clinton' are invisible to powerful people like Hatem Shafiq and Kammal Mostafa, Noredin's uncle, who may not be very bright but knows how to defend the status quo. Salwa, the slave labourer living on the edge of Egyptian society, isn't very chatty either, she probably suffered too much already. Noredin Mostafa is not the talkative kind, nor a very likeable chap. Writing library : x264 core 152 r2851 ba24899Įncoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=8 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=18 / lookahead_threads=3 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=240 / keyint_min=24 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=50 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=8255 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.Not you 'Visit to Egypt' postcard movie, this European-Egyptian coproduction had me grabbed to my seat at the local cinema. Writing library : libebml v1.3.0 + libmatroska v1.4.1 Writing application : mkvmerge v6.6.0 ('The Edge Of The In Between') built on 17:55:00 x264-LOSTĬomplete name : .x264-lost.mkv
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