Ahmed, Omar, ahhh-nooo, so many opportunities for Demyana Nassar to've had resigned-to-fate expressions, appealing to the gods for less ironic or cruel further-problems, and comparisons of him compared to when he was human, or stabs-at '1-adult' households in some cultures neglect of acting on men's obligations to their wives/household/children, etc,..
in soooo many moments, memories of cynical greek irony-comedies or latino/sth-american-neo-socialism states part-ambivalent cynicism-realism sitcoms, or french-absurdities of social-angst/awkwardness/mismatches, etc,.. where the women in absurd or difficult circumstances are more actively asking-the-universe-why, or talk themselves through further misfortunes with how-much? 'hands-thrown-uo-almost-giving-up' or 'why-persist-if-something-else-is-going-to-make-it-even-worse' sentiment, rather than as she was in this, being just passive, near-emotionless, accepting of choosing-between what was around her rather than seeking options form further-afar, friendless, and without any means of trading-with or working-for others, dependent on her husband... at all?
Trying to get work AFTER is one thing, but having no friend or networking-neighbours,.. we needed perhaps just a little more, to know-WHY she was so doomed in social-resourcelessness.
I.e. Even though it was easy to imagine why she felt like she was without options in terms of those she went to locally for help,
the degree of,
oppressed, 'don't-depend-on-others-other-than-your-husband' lack-of-social-skills / momentary chances suppressed initiative, is just too much a nondescript, passive, and bland, without-character character, to be following around in terms of all the things that happen to her.
Put differently, her being, 'just a mum' ... LIMITS how much you could DO, with her reactions - more of a aware of breadths-of-fate, and decrying cruel-ironies and trying a few things to get around the level of oppressive criminal and absurdly rule-based limitations on women / sole / without-husbands / whichever rules they are, like when the husband's "not dead",.. ugh.
I'm saying what was done with the degree of difficulties that she faced as things got worse and worse, could've been combined with more of a french-absurdity / comic scene-by-scene introduction, instead of such a constant oppressive bleak settings and extended scenes with long wide shots, and very little movement in & out of shots - almost all? Extended shots were still, and not 'following-the-character'.
Relegating the main character down to another character not-in-focus in the backgrounds of shots, limits how much you can use their facial expressions, or changing between close and long distance shots, smaller sound-spaces, and clearer emotion. If the main character's emotion is barely even noticeable and only imaginable from too far away, their reactions and progressions of emotion and development of character, remains-distant.
Kind of felt like that, even though i enjoyed some of the awful sitcom :D.
