165 minutes of orientalism and obscene hypocrisy the cinematography was redeeming but writing was ill-developed
“As human beings make their own history, they also make their cultures and ethnic identities. No one can deny the persisting continuities of long traditions, sustained habitations, national languages, and cultural geographies, but there seems no reason except fear and prejudice to keep insisting on their separation and distinctiveness, as if that was all human life was about.”
-Edward Said
