Dear Reader,
this is a true story based on the movies i went to watch with my portuguese friends in Cairo.
The whole thing happened on the 25th November 2008
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This movie tells the story about how high-class society, prostitution, corruption, power and money come together, but it is essentially a good portrait of what is happening world wide nowadays! The plot is quite well structured and "touches" in some "crucial points" which are "rotten" in our society… We all know that money and sex are the "things" that make the world turn around, and this movie proves it quite clearly!
Upon entering the cinema room, me and my female friends (I also noticed 2 kind French ladies “crushed against the wall with a bit of “HELP US” look on their faces) were gob-smacked with the “agglomeration” of Only Egyptian males stuck to the stairs and standing in the room while the movie was already on-going.
The mess was so big that the movie was stopped during a Sadomasochism scene, where the “Mistress” Maria (played by Soraia Chaves) who was wearing a combination of leather tight pants, high heel leather boots, a leather mask covering her eyes and a whip on her hands which was used to spank “her slave”. Finally someone had arrived to put order into this room, they started seating people down and soon the movie had resumed. We managed to be seated on the second row from the front, despite the fact we would have to lay back on the chair to be able to watch the movie. But the worst was still to come…
In a perfectly normal scene, Mouros (played by Joaquim de Almeida) who was having a conversation with Maria’s at her house, she was adorning a baby blue satin robe which clearly displayed her curvaceous breasts and pointy nipples, as well as her “Sex Bomb” body I heard a rattling sound of a plastic bag. Discreetly I looked to my left and to my surprise there it was … an Egyptian was clearly enjoying the so supposed “Blue Movie” while masturbating so openly next to me. I became sick and gave him a nasty look which made him stop enjoying his “ashara” (Egyptian colloquial Arabic to indicate male masturbation). On the next “hot scene” (I indicate hot, cause of the simple display of the female breasts) Maria had seduced President Meireles (played by Nicolau Breyner) and they were in the bedroom and, as she removes her black dress, her breasts are shown and this “gives wings” to the Imagination which was clearly noted with the “symphony of plastic bags”. My “cinema neighbour” got too excited and surely without any shame, respect and self-control his plastic bag stars rattling too.
As I turned my head to the left side I noticed the room attendant showing the seats to some other people who had arrived late and with a desperate, shocked and horrified look on my face I simply stood up and, in my poor Arabic I told him out-loud “… “My neighbour” is masturbating for the second time, and I have ladies sitting next to me. If you will not take him away I will surely kick his ass out the door, far away from me and my female friends…” The man stood up and, with such a innocent look glaring on his face, had the guts to ask the room attendant to look at his pants, in order to see if he had a hard on which clearly was so obviously displayed on his pants and after a brief blushing and embarrassing moment, he was taken away.
The movie keeps going amidst the smell of semen quite obvious in the air as well as the constant Mobile phone rings, with the loud long chats done by the “bawebe’s” (meaning the doorman’s in colloquial Egyptian Arabic) throughout all the movie. When will it happen that people will be re-educated? When will it happen that people will start respecting each other instead of bitching behind everyone’s back? When will it happen that people will be given a warning or kicked out of the cinema if their mobile phone rings ( in the loudest sound possible) with a Haifa, Mohamed Mounir, Amr Diab ring tone?
This all comes to proof that Taboo, Respect, Sexuality, Gender discrimination, Ignorance & Hypocrisy are still major issues, which have to be dealt with in this country by the people who cannot stand up for themselves:
- As a first approach to explain my comment above I must say that most of the non-sexually educated Egyptian males cant keep it in their pants (always horny cause Religion tells them that to have sexual thoughts is so bad, and that having sex before marriage is bad too);
- as a second point the movie was in Portuguese language with English language subtitles and I bet that not even 20% of the people in that room spoke English as a minimum requirement to understand the whole story, message behind the movie ( taking in consideration that there were 2 French ladies and one of them had lived in Brazil so she spoke fluent Portuguese as well as 3 Portuguese ladies and 2 Portuguese males);
- My third comment is a big question into why aren’t Egyptian females allowed to watch normal movies that contain sexual connotations or even as in this case the display of the female breasts? If they watched such movies they could be bound to learn a thing or two?
- As my fourth point I must say and honestly confess that sex is so widely available in
As a conclusion to this vast subject which could lead me to write an encyclopaedia is a question we should ask ourselves, what’s the Mask behind all this? Is the answer to say that 83 Million (data collected from 2007 census) Egyptians are not Educated? To me this has nothing to do with Education on the extreme case; this has to do with Mentality. Why should people have to endure such situations in an International Film Festival, which has been created to simply divulgate, share, to tell a story, to show a specific point of being, to show a different approach, a different point of view or even a country/society reality?
I think we all live in the same reality, we are all enduring a change in the World’s financial Market, we are all under “pressure” to either perform better at work, to produce better clothing, to make it all simply accessible to everyone who can “afford” a certain or peculiar aspect/item of being an human being.
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