First hour of the movie; I spent it tryna find out where the movie was set to try and gather some context of the story and kind of ensure accuracy in what’s going on (big mistake to think a French man would make a movie about a proper story showing a woman’s life in war in a middle eastern country) 🤔 cuz it was shot in Jordan but they’re mostly speaking Palestinian and there were times i thought that’s where it could be set and the story might have something to do with the location but also there’s a civil war involving religion so then it’s based on Lebanese history so maybe that’s what the rest of the family’s story’s context will follow…
During the following 30 minutes; I gathered that the French man director does not really care where specifically the movie is supposed to be set in, and the story mainly has to do with the fact that we’re in some non-specific levant country and there’s a civil war and based on this fucked up family’s story so I gave up on the specifics of the country which were initially a bit misleading
And then the final 30 minutes; I became more focused on the twins’ mission to find their father and their brother, trying to analyze who they could be and shit (😂🔫) and I especially started racking my brain after hearing her extremely horrifying and jarring gasp only to soon after be extremely shocked and horrified and disturbed and heartbroken
But in summary it’s a really good movie, Denis ate, with a really good ending and emotional and sensitive scenes and themes (a bit of initial non-plot centric confusion on my behalf, which could’ve been avoided if I wasn’t Arab or bothered enough to get country context, which is most of the time important but I guess not here 🙂)
First hour of the movie; I spent it tryna find out where the movie was set to try and gather some context of the story and kind of ensure accuracy in what’s going on (big mistake to think a French man would make a movie about a proper story showing a woman’s life in war in a middle eastern country) 🤔 cuz it was shot in Jordan but they’re mostly speaking Palestinian and there were times i thought that’s where it could be set and the story might have something to do with the location but also there’s a civil war involving religion so then it’s based on Lebanese history so maybe that’s what the rest of the family’s story’s context will follow…
During the following 30 minutes; I gathered that the French man director does not really care where specifically the movie is supposed to be set in, and the story mainly has to do with the fact that we’re in some non-specific levant country and there’s a civil war and based on this fucked up family’s story so I gave up on the specifics of the country which were initially a bit misleading
And then the final 30 minutes; I became more focused on the twins’ mission to find their father and their brother, trying to analyze who they could be and shit (😂🔫) and I especially started racking my brain after hearing her extremely horrifying and jarring gasp only to soon after be extremely shocked and horrified and disturbed and heartbroken
But in summary it’s a really good movie, Denis ate, with a really good ending and emotional and sensitive scenes and themes (a bit of initial non-plot centric confusion on my behalf, which could’ve been avoided if I wasn’t Arab or bothered enough to get country context, which is most of the time important but I guess not here 🙂)
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