Leisure and a damn good movie
An expected boring Sunday turned out to be very pleasant instead.
Although this was a Formula 1 weekend, I was destined not to watch the Grand Prix (yes, I am a devoted fan of the Scuderia (aka Ferrari) and Mikael Schumacher). You see the tickets were really very expensive and as for the cheap ones ($60, General admission),well...they just suck!. So, the plan was to go to church and then spend a rather boring afternoon.
Fortunately, things did not develop as planned. After the service, a friend of mine suggested me to go grab a bite since his wife went out shopping with a friend of hers who was to leave for Saskatchewan today. Having nothing to do, I joined him, and later on his wife and her friend joined us as well. After lunch, we walked a bit downtown, and his wife escorted her friend to the airport.
When she returned, some relatives of her suggested watching a movie and to make a long story short, we ended up watching The Syrian Bride.
The story focuses on a wedding. But not just any type of wedding. The bride comes from a Druze village in the Golan Heights (a disputed area between the states of Israel and Syria). The groom is a famous actor from Syria. When they get married and the bride enters Syria she will never be able to return back to Israel, to see her family.
Don't take me wrong, this is NOT a love story, but it is not a political propaganda flick either. There are no Romeo and Juliet, nor good or bad Arabs or Jews. That wedding is a converging point of different lives and expectations;the bride's family, the bureaucrats from BOTH sides of the border, the UN personnel, the groom's friends, they are all there, and for that single moment they all have a key part to play. It is not necessarily a part they choose to play, but perhaps a part they just have to. And what about the wedding you might ask...Well, I guess that was one of the messages of that movie: "what about that wedding after all?"
This is definitely a movie worth seeing....
Although this was a Formula 1 weekend, I was destined not to watch the Grand Prix (yes, I am a devoted fan of the Scuderia (aka Ferrari) and Mikael Schumacher). You see the tickets were really very expensive and as for the cheap ones ($60, General admission),well...they just suck!. So, the plan was to go to church and then spend a rather boring afternoon.
Fortunately, things did not develop as planned. After the service, a friend of mine suggested me to go grab a bite since his wife went out shopping with a friend of hers who was to leave for Saskatchewan today. Having nothing to do, I joined him, and later on his wife and her friend joined us as well. After lunch, we walked a bit downtown, and his wife escorted her friend to the airport.
When she returned, some relatives of her suggested watching a movie and to make a long story short, we ended up watching The Syrian Bride.
The story focuses on a wedding. But not just any type of wedding. The bride comes from a Druze village in the Golan Heights (a disputed area between the states of Israel and Syria). The groom is a famous actor from Syria. When they get married and the bride enters Syria she will never be able to return back to Israel, to see her family.
Don't take me wrong, this is NOT a love story, but it is not a political propaganda flick either. There are no Romeo and Juliet, nor good or bad Arabs or Jews. That wedding is a converging point of different lives and expectations;the bride's family, the bureaucrats from BOTH sides of the border, the UN personnel, the groom's friends, they are all there, and for that single moment they all have a key part to play. It is not necessarily a part they choose to play, but perhaps a part they just have to. And what about the wedding you might ask...Well, I guess that was one of the messages of that movie: "what about that wedding after all?"
This is definitely a movie worth seeing....
posted by Immortalis at 11:35 μ.μ.
2 Comments:
Athanasios, you must teach me how to make a proper spanakopita.
Yes, I know that has nothing to do with your post, but few things in life are more important than Greek food.
Athanasios, be warned, if you tell BW how to make spanakopita without cheese, she will go ahead and add the cheese anyway.
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