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Reviews
Resistance (2020)
Trying too hard and yet failing
If he Hallmark channel, Disney, and WWII had a threesome, this movie would be the child. Very weak either with regards to script or acting.
Solitaire (2016)
Love over bigotry
So, how can you tackle an issue as sensitive as deeply-rooted, conflict-induced bigotry racism while at the same time introducing a heart-warming work of art with love at its core? I don't know if director Sohpie Butrus had that in mind while making this movie, but whatever she was thinking, she surely translated right on the screen. In just 90 minutes, the movie tells you several stories each with its own significance, tackling themes of loss, prejudice, love and reconciliation. But the keyword here is "story", after all this is what life is about, the everyday stories of ordinary people, those affected by the big events but who are not accounted for in news broadcasts and history books. I didn't go into that movie theater expecting a solution for the Lebanese-Syrian conflict, for art's job is not to give solutions, but to put the problem out there and create a conversation about it.
I truly enjoyed watching Solitaire, it was funny and touching in its own way. The actors and actresses owned their roles, and it was very visually pleasing with the excellent cinematography and beautiful scenery from the Lebanese countryside.
If you're looking for something that's moving without being depressing, and entertaining without being shallow, then I would recommend you give Solitaire a shot, it will be worth your time.
Sausage Party (2016)
Get your facts right
You see, I understand this is a parody of religions and religious people, but the one thing that bothered me most of all was how they depicted the conflict in Palestine as being between Muslims and Jews. It's not a religious conflict, you so-called writers who wrote this long, lame joke of a movie, and it's not about having enough "room on the shelf" for everyone, it's about Zionists stealing the lands of the people who have lived there for centuries, Muslims, Christians or whatever, and mass-murdering them for the past 70+ years. Yeah sure you seem to think it can all be solved if everyone f***** each other, but I assure you our leaders have been doing that for years, they are making sweet love to the racist, criminal Zionist leaders and it seems to be going great for them as they are getting richer and richer while the people continue to be killed, their houses continue to be demolished and their lands occupied. So disappointed to see that none of the big names who have written this movie bothered to check out the political background of the conflict and just fell into generalized, ignorant stereotypes about the Middle East.