Comments on: A French Film Metaphorically Dares To Stand Up To Islam

By: Hannah

Hannah — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:21:49 +0000

I saw the movie and the metaphor seems rather tacked on, IMO. The movie begins with some overhead shots of a park and sculpture that have a crescent shape in it, but that’s the only other support I could find for this interpretation.

The movie itself was forgettable and I regretted watching it.

You might as well argue that “The Hills Have Eyes” is a metaphor for the War on Terror. Even if it’s there, so what?

Just my 2 cents.

By: Jim P

Jim P — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:32:10 +0000

I read this article and then I streamed the movie on Netflix (it is available as an instant movie there). I liked the movie, but I had a problem with the ending. The ending to me was somewhat of a let down.

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At the very end, when he is in the hospital with his wife, I was yelling at the screen “tell her tell her!” I don’t understand why he didn’t tell her that he had killed her assailant and that she would be safe forever. There are a couple reasons why I think that would have been more of a satisfying ending. First, the husband makes much about her not seeing him as a man, second, she or the doctors say a number of times how scared she is and how she is out of danger.
It seems to me that he should have at least shown her the necklass that he got back from the Rapist because it would have had symbolic value, but him telling her about his killing the rapist would have been symbolic of his reclaiming his manhood, and also he would have assuaged her feelings of fright. So, while it was a good movie, it COULD have been much much better.

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By: Ezra

Ezra — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:51:45 +0000

I’ve seen this film. I didn’t have any of the historical and cultural background that you’ve brought to your interpretation, but I didn’t get any sense of anti-Islamism from the film. What struck me at the end of the film was that, in its handling of the final scene and the interplay between the husband and wife (I won’t spoil anything for anyone), it showed men what it feels like for a woman to be raped. The main character’s experiences were physically altogether different from that of his wife, but psychologically, it gave me a greater understanding of what it means to feel so personally violated. I didn’t sense any ethnic or religious undertones beyond that.

By: v.

v. — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:37:42 +0000

Spiro: of course the Sundance channel tilts liberal, and I don’t see how anyone could plausibly deny that. It’s the use of the word “leftist” (par for the course around here, I know) that annoys me, unless you’re all ready to be called “rightists” in which case rock on. It’s just not a word with any meaning besides a negative connotative one.

I’m torn about this post. On the one hand, it’s an excellent film and pretty accessible (only the language barrier really kept it from being more widely seen, probably), so if people want to watch it based on this recommendation, that’s probably a good thing. On the other hand, I could play this kind of misreading game all day. For example, I could claim that the recent French film “The Class” is an expose of the complete incompatibility of traditional, Western-based French culture and presumably barbaric Islamic mores, as represented in the film by the Muslim kids who cause trouble in the class. But that would be equally disingenuous.

Let’s be clear: the kind of academic studies I’m sure most of this site’s readers would deplore are equally full of wishful misreadings tilted towards a liberal direction. But I don’t approve of those either.

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Mitzi — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:50:19 +0000

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By: John

John — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:12:11 +0000

Thanks for the recommendation, it is set on my DVR.

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