Cabaret Movie Critique

Contaminated with the confusion Factor

What a movie?
In this time of the Year in 2008, I felt exactly like when I was 14 years in my bedroom sleeping at night afraid that the terrorist would come and jump from the window and kill us all. It was the time of the El-Erhaby movie. Yes I felt that way at that time a colleague of mine in school lost her Police dad in a car bomb by a terrorist, my mum (authorized translator) also lost a group of 40 tourists coming from Bosnia when Aswan biggest terrorist action happened.

I was so young didn’t understand much of what’s happening but the newspapers were so turbulent.
To watch that movie now made me feel I am in early 90’s except for a feeling that made the film a master Peace a feeling of Confusion that characterizes each and every moment and each and every place here in Egypt nowadays the 2 extremes living in one person the Confusion.
As for the good and the bad the white and the black doesn’t exist anymore we re the two colors in the same flesh and its totally different then grey
It is so freaky Scary

Yes the Cabaret Owner is a good man Yes he prays yes he doesn’t drink I can totally understand I see him Yes It’s just a job but he Is Good….ehmmmm…. He neither is at least he wants to be and he drinks milk no Women (Neswan as he says) nor drinking for sure no drinking.

Yes Jumana Have no option she is a good Kind hearted. Yes she lives just for her mum and she wants her to go 3omra so much even if she has to strip for that.
She is not bad she simply has no other option!!!! Is it true she has no option is that the society we live in Just for she has no qualifications poor and her gender is a woman …Tears coming down on my Face ….

And here comes the best of all An Oscar winner Donia a beauty with her spontaneous and gestures. You don’t know whether you are supposed to laugh or you cry black comedy painful humiliating what she has to go through in her house in the streets and everywhere Cursed because she is poor beautiful girl with no good family no hug no security no safety that would embrace her.

Bedeir has turned his life course just by a story that I might believe in but sorry it is very weak story that would stop him from 30 years working in Cabaret and choosing to take 75 % less of his salary nowadays.

What about the right and wrong did he really need to listen to that story?
Is he that fragile? Can Faith this holly word and value be changed in 2 minutes?
Was it really strong enough to make him choose the white not the black though the grey seemed appealing for 30 years and he must have heard zillion of similar stories or Oups sorry maybe he can just afford this decision now after his children finished school or college ehmmmm…. Or maybe he feels he will die soon so he d better wash up before death…Oups sorry. Am I bitching here too hard on the man ehmmmm Sorry the truth is painful!!!!!!

And the confusion factor arises again in every character in the movie it was just in the air and as I was moving from my seat in the cinema to the real life, it was hard on me to move for the movie is just a movie that ends by the End

But life is just there all the time and the confusion factor is there all around us contaminated ….filled with pain agony poverty and justifications confusion.

*Confusion from Salma dictionary has meanings that can’t be mentioned in this context for unmentioned रासों