“God loves me. I know he loves me. I want him to stop. I can't take the pain. The voices and the pain. I want him to hate me. I fight him. I make crosses so he'll hate me. I want him to find somebody else.”
Jesus as man, not myth. Tormented with holy purpose, cursing his Father and the world around him. A man barred of free will; filled with love, hate, desire, and despair. His spiritual journey of…
Thana can not speak, and her suffering pushes her to use violence. She was birthed into this world and punished through the eyes of men, embodying the perfect victim, a woman who can't say no. The violence against Thana is swift and brutal, incredibly effective in martyring her into a goddess of death. We watch her descent, clearing the streets of scum before this violent force she unleashes takes hold of her. She becomes a husk of rage; only unto the final moments and a single line uttered does she realise her life is forfeited.
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All I gotta say is, I'm glad my ticket was free.
Idk what I'm missing from this film, but I thought it was so boring and unengaging, not to mention it doesn't even explore the societal, economic, and systematic failure of capitalism that forces people to adopt these lifestyles and somehow get Stockholm syndrome from this. THE MAIN CHARACTER LITERALLY WORKED FOR AMAZON, you know, the company that doesn't let customers go to the bathroom outside of their 10-minute mandatory…
“Did you know… Hijab bad?” - France
It seems asinine that this film decides to hyper focus on Hijab injustice (often a valid concern but supplementary to primary conditions of theocratic Islam). The point is certainly not new and has grown stale (no wonder a French co-production decided to fund the hell out of this).
This of course isn’t my primary reason for disliking the film. Overall this is just an incredibly bland, badly paced, poorly made pile of slop…
