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Has no touch of the artist, the movie appears as a just governmental manifesto against the political Islam activists, notably the then banned Brotherhood Group. Wahid Hamed, the writer, translate his hostility against the Group into that script. All characters has no single positive aspect, except the low-income and communist friend, Ahmed Rateb. Adel Imam, the Leader as being called nowadays, played one of his great roles. The poor-rooted lawyer who decided to decline whatever established societal values but his won ones. He involved in the corruption until his ears. The devil looks-like Riad Al-Khouly, the Islamic counterpart to Imam's corruption, did a huge effort to worsening the character! Who considered that movie one of the biggest movies that criticized the toppled regime of Hosny Mubarak ignored the fact that Sheriff Arafa, the director, has directed the presidential campaign of Mubarak. Mr. Hamed himself is married to ex-chairwoman of the Egyptian State TV (the ultimate sensitive position withing the Police State), and his son Marawan Hamed has directed several promotional films on behalf the toppled regime!

I watched this movie on a very late time, three years after being released in fact. Ibrahim, the ideal hero, was living with his mother and saw his father murdering without any ability to prevent the killers. However, his mother has died leaving him alone within a bush of slums, nearby Cairo. The big guy, Mahmoud Abdel-Aziz who dressed in black, loves the girl that fallen in love with Ibrahim (I remembered Maria Magdalena at the moment). The story line is simple and ended with killing Ibrahim after being betrayed by his closest friend who took a few money in exchange of trapping Ibrahim at a coffee shop. Many friends said that I'm exaggeratedly interpreted the story, but I told them that the producing company is Good News, the Aramaic name of the New Testament!While I loved the cinematography, music, editing of that movie, I see Marawan Hamed, the director, a just clever director, not a creative one.

Khaled Youssef, the director that worked with Chahine since early 1990s, has do nothing but reproducing the famous work of Chaine which was released in early 1990s. Originally a biblical story, Khaled Youssef adopts the traditional narrative, acts, and symbols that Chahine used in his movie. Frankly I can't continue watching Khaled Youssef movies as my mind used to recall Chahine's movies during the watching. He always tries to be Chahine II, but unfortunately Chaine has gone without giving the keys of his talent to Khaled! Nowadays, Mr. Khaled said that his movie was a prophecy of Egyptian Revolution, I wonder how he said the comment, the end of his movie refers to the collapse of the Egyptian Society, not to his great revolution.