Bab el Shams ... The Movie

This was posted @ Mohamed some Month ago as a respond on The Return. I've missed the movie and decided to post it in it's home blog.

The Return, or the Second Part of Bab el Shams was actually as Great ...
With the Luxury of seeing Part II first, with more than a bit of background on the Palestinian struggle and suffering in Lebanon,
may be I was on a bit better position to see how great "The Return" is...

It is Great as a complimentary to part I as it accurately depicts the continuation of the Palestinian suffering in a Great artistic "docu-drama" style with great joyous cinematic symbolism on very turn of the camera and the accompanied scenario...

"The Return" is Great on its own standing, even without Part I.

Part I "Al Raheel" was a Great epic...Part II "The Return" is a great "neo-Realism" of the Refugees Camps in Lebanon , and the whole of the Palestinian Diaspora done (written and directed) in a GREAT and high intellectual docu-drama style...

Yousry Nasrallah was great in mixing the Magic love of an Oppressed woman / Oppressed and raped Land; (reads: Palestine)
Shams is an essential representation of some of the Palestinian Diaspora who toured many refugees camps in a social despair of any normal family life and a normal wife/mother role that she never choose, yet kept chasing that role on an empty promise of a miserable second marriage to the man she shot in seeking revenge for all the suffering and despair... To me this was as obvious as her name "Shams"

In the contrary the beautiful very feminine, fertile, and attractive Nahila stayed on the Land yet virtually raped, at least for sometime with the thin doubts of some of her villagers. Remember: Shams was turned into a sort of "Freedom Fighter". Nahila was almost a very successful wife/mother role who raised 5 kids. More over she appeared to be the ONLY successful person in keeping one cave "FREE" in Palestine that is "Bab AL Shams".

As for the "Return" it was presented as a completely personal vision that reflects the current political realties of Palestinians "Return" as it is almost a personal decision in many cases. Some Palestinian-Americans "Returned" to Palestine like Dr. Ibrahim AbuAlughod, God Bless his soul.

Khalil - our hero - did "Return" on his own way and the best risky way he knows how..

Um-Khalil-the maid wife- also "Returned" in the very beginning of part II and returned back with the Orange Branch / Orchid, to the refugee camp in Lebanon as if she would take care of all her adult children including Khalil who eventually decided to "Return" to join his real bio- mother...

Younous "Return" was far more frequent, fertile, and resistant yet was never complete and always in-between the dream of peaceful loving "Return Home" to the beautiful Nahila / the Land : Palestine Reads: Prison in Younous case and he chooses to always starts from the beginning as a Freedom Fighter in the center of the Palestinian Diaspora in the center of a Refugee Camp.

Need to get the movie to keep & to watch again. Not Sure if it's out yet.