I watched the Emirati film High in its story and the techniques and elaborate optical tricks Ghost recently as a new addition to the director, writer and producer Amer Salmeen Al-Marri after its premiere in the UAE, and the film is the second cinematic experience for Amer Al-Marri in terms of writing and directing after his first film Ashiq Al-Amouri, which achieved artistic and public success after its presentation in 2018, which won many Arab and international awards.
Ghost stars a group of local talents, including Maryam Sultan Abdullah Al Junaibi, Alaa Shaker Humaid Al Awadhi, Khalid Al Nuaimi and Mayed Al Balushi, in addition to 4 new faces on Emirati cinema, namely Kanoo Canadian Rehab Al Muhairi, Lubna Al Hassan and Rasim Hamdan.
The film is considered a unique local cinematic experience that combines suspense, excitement and mystery, and its events revolve around a family conflict over an ancient legacy through the story of a grandmother who demands that all her family members live together in the big family house before she agrees to sell it. The adventure begins when the family moves from Abu Dhabi to the family home to face many terrifying and mysterious events and they face a ghost that tries to scare them and prevent them from selling the house in a social story that revolves around people's greed for inheritance and embodies a conflict Between 3 families in dramatized scenes perfectly concentrated in an old house belonging to their ancestors to divide the inheritance between them, the film mixes suspense and mystery, especially with Abu Hareb's attempt to find out what happened to his family in the past to unravel the mystery and discover the causes of this phenomenon that he and his family witnessed after entering the family home.
In the movie, Al-Marri was able to make a big difference between his past work and the new in almost everything. He presents a different experience in a ghost through great efforts that came from mastering the general shots in the movie and the dialogues. It is a movie that combines suspense, excitement, and high techniques, whether in photography or the use of artificial intelligence in presenting the ghost fantasy character in a very beautiful dramatic narrative and scary action scenes. I never imagined that I would see an Emirati movie with this high level and also the series writing Director Amer Salmeen Al-Marri focused on the stories we hear and the imagination that revolves around ghosts and their appearance in our lives for certain reasons by providing puzzles to link the missing parts of it in a very visual horizontal and easy film.
According to the director, the filming of the film took a whole month in selected locations, including Al Ain and Abu Dhabi, especially in the studios of the media area in Abu Dhabi, twofour54, as part of a huge production plan that focused on the quality and value of visual content as a winning creative bet, and this was evident from the beginning of the events in the film, which brought together a rich mix of artists and young talents, which is a great challenge for the director because he is in the middle of two different schools of age through artistic production, but the result was amazing for the great harmony of his team. This was evident through the events of the film.
