Roh's Beauty (2014)
10/10
Excellent Film!
12 February 2020
Warning: Spoilers
The Excellent Egyptians do not hold back on what really happens with the infiltration of the Mafia and how it ruins women, the family, the children, the fathers, and the neighborhood, but, more importantly the soul: even the title, "Rouh's Beauty" reflects this theme. Rouh means soul in Arabic. Parallel instances occur even in America - under the guise of hidden institutionalized rape - within the churches, governments, even between countries, states, cities, and families. Let's not kid ourselves: America does indeed reflect these immoral qualities. This film speaks the Truth as ugly as it is. The ending scene, as the Raped Roh walks through the prejudicial streets among the demonic taunts of the "blinded women" who have become "prostitutes" as well, she retains her beauty, clarity and purity, even though she is defiled by them all. Egypt has a way of possessing simultaneous dual conflicts, which are clear to one's naked eye and soul: It is beautiful and ugly in the same moment - it is dirty and clean at the same moment - contradictions that share equal space in time, as if they are one in the same, without contraction. One senses the verification of these incongruities the minute your foot sets upon the land within a mystifying love that fills the air. The character of the real blind man sums it up succinctly, "The darkness holds me back in protecting you, Roh." Excellent acting for the entire cast... Excellent Egyptian Film.
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