"The Girls of Abd al -Rahman" .. the revolution of four sisters looking for their missing parents

Amal Mamdouh

"A person does not harm more than a long negative feelings."This is a sentence that "Freud" said about the effects of the long repression that may hand over us to deformation, we may not expect its extent and we do not know our truth. On this content, the Jordanian movie "The Girls of Abdul Rahman" is written and directed by Zaid Abu Hamdan.

The film participated in the official competition of the 43rd Cairo Film Festival and won the audience's award at the festival.And what I also has, starts with a head from the juvenile plant;The house of Abd al -Rahman is the owners of the story, even if the father is the owner of the house.

The two -sided address combines two opposite halves, the first of which is its abundance, attributed to the second, in the suggestion of the patriarchal authority by allocating and breadth, and in a misfortune despite a large number of powerful power, the idea is not the same lineWe'll see.

Empty house rooms ... a gradual definition

Within a general case suggesting the margin and hiding, everything here begins from the weakest of the strongest, and from the narrowest of the most comprehensive, so the scenes of the film begin with shots for the surroundings of this house, which is located in a lower slope than the level of the surface of the neighborhood, and in a mountainous village, not in the city center, until the shots range from inside the house.

The empty house rooms are reviewed with successive fixed tires that make you feel still the place in a "photomitag" way, a type of visual narration with consecutive tires that shorten the expression of a certain period of time or a specific condition, so that the first living scenes begin to focus on an antique radio, as well as most traditional furniture.

We start to get to know the characters of this family, the subject of the film, which consists of Father Abdel Rahman and his four daughters whose mother died years ago, we get to know them from Zainab, she is the largest weakest, even if she is the most pure (actress Farah Bseisu), and she is a medium -age girl who did not marry for the care of her fatherAnd she lives with him alone, and as for the rest of the sisters, they married far away, so that the definition of the weakest is stronger, the strongest, who is subjected to the most revolutionary.

Zainab .. Dreams of the makers of dresses for the girls of the neighborhood

The film begins with successive scenes for each of the four sisters, during which we get to know their world and the characteristics of the nature of each of them, and as we mentioned, the first shots began with the world of Zainab, the older sister, the most good and naive, looks thin romantic, we see it in a thin sleeping shirt that contemplates itself in the mirror, to be a memoryShortly, where we find it put a square clip of his fabric in a drawer over equal pieces of other fabrics, we understand that she spent a time with her in her imagination before she turns her in this staircase, she is to cover sleep shirts and dresses for the girls of the neighborhood, and keeps with scraps from them that witnessed her dreams when she measured her.

Zainab is the donor despite the deprivation, and it is the most drinking of the culture of the place and its recognition of its cultural, masculinity and the most obedient to it, it is very tenderly and the fear of getting out of any cultural line, with a calm, cautious voice, fearing problems and clashes, and always seeks to prevent her to prevent her, I can draw her personality and psychological details in a wayAccording to a lot, as I am very good at the rest of the characters.

Amal .. the contradictions of the religiously bound sister

After Zainab, we get to know the hopes of the province and religiously committed (actress Saba Mubarak), she is a veiled woman who wears wide black clothes, and even in her home does not leave wearing anal, and fears the appearance of part of her hair even from a distant possibility, as she is subject to a more thick husband who committed to leaving the effect of his treatment of herWith a clear sign on her eyelid.

We can understand without directly how the condemning of this husband is a superficial phenomenon through this sign indicating cruelty and nervousness, and through the work of his wife with simple things behind him, her son knows that a break between them, which indicates the shortcomings of this husband who does not care about what is short of it,He does not give up the full commitment to what he wants, what a scene of his constant pressure on the car trumpet shows to rush to the exit of his children to connect them to the school, including a child we see wearing the veil, not playing with the extent of their mother's effort to prepare them to go out quickly.

We notice its suppression, nervousness and ferocity as well, as it is very sharp and measures the behavior of the obligation ruler, while we indirectly alludes the contradiction of some of its dealings with its apparent religiosity, as it attacks smoking but does it in secret, and decreases in the amount of cabbage that it sells to feed its children with this difference.

Mistakes that seem to be a lot of humanity, but they indicate a duplication and a fabrication of an apparent apparent valuable position.

Samah and conclusion .. The rebellion of the free and bold sisters

The introduction of the characters continues to be the weakest of the strongest until we reach the third sister, Samah (actress Hanan Helou), to be her first scenes in a hairdresser to style her hair, then in her car, in a scene that shows the end of her tongue and nervousness.

Samah appears as a model for a bold liberal woman who is very careful with her female appearance with a stressful exaggeration that indicates fear and lack, and it is indeed what the details of her life and her relationship with her husband reveal, she is the wife of a wealthy man who betrays her, so she rejoices in doubt and monitoring him, and therefore this explains her exaggeration in taking care of herself and showing her femininity.

She is more rebellious and does not care about society a lot, but we discover from the nature of her relationship with her husband and her patience with him that she is still captive to social and dual templates that she thought herself out of her frameworks.

Finally, we get to know the younger sister, the conclusion (actress Maryam Pasha), who left her village with the scandal of her relationship with her lover, and her father boycotted her from her time and boycott, and she lives independent in Dubai, the role of her presentation comes, the last of which is the most extreme model of the opposite, presented by her first scenes while wearing swimsuits on one of the swimming pools, With complete dispense with makeup and adornment features, they have a sporty appearance and a rebellious, similar hair, like her, we do not care about my opinion, we see the revolutionary views of its ideal limit, it seems the most freedom from the power of its environment, but its pain has not escaped from it and its memories.

The disappearance of the father .. the crisis of the sisters gathering after a long absence

Among the personalities of the sisters, we find that Zainab and hopes represent a conservative model, in which hopes are more extremist, and Zainab is the most compatible and surrender. As for grace and conclusion, they represent two revolutionary modelThe fighters of them may drink them in one way or another, we see the relations of the sisters spousal with old differences and the lack of agreement.

But the plot of the film starts from the disaster of the father’s disappearance on the morning of one day after a night in which the door of Zainab's room opened, so he was surprised by measuring the wedding dress of one of her clients, so we feel very sorrow in his heart on his daughter, I am good at expressing her performance and a tear that he swallowed with difficulty, so this event comes as a reasonPermanent to meet them all over, and detonate what was filed in their depths below the surface that seems still, and the differences escalate in the beginning to show their contradictions and what is entitled to their souls, but little by little the common ordeal calms the roughness of differences and their unity and gradually bring them closer.

Zainab, the family's representative in the village, is keen to hide the matter from the villagers for fear of blame and scandal, and we notice the shots of most of the men with their strict looks at Zainab, as the camera focuses on the strength of their looks successfully, especially when we find one of these looks to a butcher turns to them, while the meat is cut strongly, It also gives some of the sellers with whom they deal with themselves the right to interfere in her relationship with her father, and direct her interest in him with comfort, so what is issued towards him with love makes him command and guardian All of her concern is to put out the causes of looks and words, and usually we see men occupy the square and women, so that this house that Zainab always represents appears in a besieged situation.

Internal and external environmental struggles ... the legacy of the heavy past

The sisters face the new situation together, forced, to lead a double conflict, one of which is external with their old environment, and the other is internal between them and with themselves, and they have been fair to their community with different psyche, pregnant women with a legacy of the pain and secrets that we feel, and we can understand them from looks or words towards personalities in the village, whereWe feel that they have harmed some of them without a direct permit.

The conflict between them appears naturally, does not prevent the sensing of their emotions as sisters, there is depth between them and if they denied, and with time the sharp differences between them melts with more acceptance and condoning, and this smooth, convincing transition is one of the best advantagesIn several scenes.

This is evident, especially in the scene of reporting the disappearance of their parents in the department, so we see sitting next to some of them, while on their heads, pictures of successive generations of the authority inherited by forming his significance and suggestion of male domination and socially inherited, in addition to their scenes in one car, a grace car, with all their differences and their having to overlookIn order to complete the search for the missing father as a journey parallel to the restoration of their rusts that came with it.

Fracture of the walls ... pressure generates the revolution in a fatal male environment

The clarity of hints increases with ancient hidden relationships and feelings of ancient revenge from each other towards some of the men of the neighborhood, in a way that suggests the inventions of this environment and what is under the moral surface in it, as men often occupy the arena, as well as we usually see them at the top of the ladder leading to their home, to feel the siege and siege of the male environment around them even ifWomen practiced it, and we see the deep diseases of this environment for everyone, including suppression, hypocrisy, duplication and false morals, so that a loud calls himself "Abu Ali", while he is not the father of one of them, and we have a look of craving from an old man of a girl of his daughter's age, while women are in mePrivate marions are and track them.

As for the sisters, their secrets and their life conflicts appear in front of some of them, so they sympathize together and unite them to support some of them, especially since the source of their crises is one, so their sharp rulings gradually retreat towards some of them, so we discover that the upcoming hopes that criticize smoking cigarettes smoke secretly, until they reach smoking together at the window.

Zainab is exposed to several pressure situations that put her weakness until she provokes him, especially after a mockery that she is exposed to from her sisters regarding the old radio, which is keen to kinden one of their sessions on the surface with his calm songThe middle of it, in putting a force in which its word is heard and destroyed itself, the old radio.

Here her strength comes out, and we discover that she knows leadership, as we discovered by her secret work to earn money, and also smoking her for cigarettes, her hidden strength begins to announce herself, and she faces the truth of her husband who stabs her in her femininity, so she finally abandoned her false and exhausted female mask that she was clinging toTo feel safely her husband clings to her, so she wipes her adornment in the mirror violently, revoking her weakness, and as liberation, he returns her to her simple nature.

Then the severity of the conclusion begins in retreat and moderation, so we listen to vent it and see its absent smile, although the character of the end of the least is deep and wealthy details.

Then Samah .. The scene of the final revolution inside the neighborhood

With the dramatic development, a force in the visual expression is parallel to the drama.And export intermittent lights from it.

The people of the neighborhood wake up and their balconies are lit successively as the open eyes, respectively, so that the surprise is to lead the reaction of Zainab, the neighborhood of the neighborhood of the neighborhood's secrets, decided to confront the neighbors with their diseases, to end with a visually eloquent expression, so the neighbors extinguish the lights of their windows in succession as they started.As if it is a state of reverse visual apostasy that contradicts the scene from the lights of the grace and lights of their successive windows, after it, with the reflection of this fracture of this power of confrontation.

Also, the visual employment of the old radio that symbolizes a rigid condition is mandated in everything that does not go with life, to use itself in the symbolism of the transformation as well, as I was good at choosing the symbolism of the roof of the house overlooking the large city that witnesses the revelation and confrontation between the sisters and Zainab's overestimation, as if it is a symbol of the attempts of salvation fromA suffocating siege, and it is also a scene of the end as wide after a narrow.

Film industry .. sincere performance and an interesting smooth story

The finding of the father is the dramatic prize for bridging rifts and self -confrontations, and as a final result of this journey, but the scene of finding the father needed to show more the heir to the father, especially psychologically, and we did not see him at home with them in the last scenes.

But in my opinion, it is a single note that can be made by observation of this good film without fabricating the writing and scenario of the details of the details, and a situation that combines the sincere artistic and public arts smoothly, with a quietly filming a drama crossing, a very successful choice for places, and the performance I can describe as honest and automatic, which was a keyImportant to the quality of receiving the movie, with good characters, drawing and sincere performance, no longer is very available in our films.

The heroes abandon the makeup, and get out of the ready -made molds, as the actress Farah Bseisu greatly mastered the role of the woman who is a delicate girl, and Saba Mubarak went out of the beautiful girl's style, and she well reflected the composition of the sharp -and -speaking character together, and I stopped a lot in front of Hanan Helou, who presented a fun roleAnd I added a depth of the character with great sincerity.

Perhaps Maryam Pasha's performance needed more maturity and depth, but she also played her role in a way that suits the rebel practical character, and some may see that there is directly in the ideas of the film and the drama that he presents, but I see that if it was found, it was thoughtful, and to the extent only that reachesFor the masses, without a dramatic breach, exaggeration, or baggel, and it is not without a clear artistic state, a coherent scenario and an interesting case required in the artwork, this commendable combination between the public and artistic cases I see in favor of this film and its sincere and different way of its presentation.