Hassan and Morcos

At first I was reluctant to watch the movie when I first heard about its shooting, I believed it would be another lame Egyptian movie that talks about the sectarian issue in the brothers and fellow country men way with nothing to do with reality at all. When I heard about it after it was shown in the cinemas I got the feeling that it might be different and I got many opinions about it and read about many controversies surrounding the movie.

To talk about the movie I liked both actors I believe they did a good job, the direction wasn't the best but it wasn't bad either. They showed the real big picture about the muslim-christian relationship in Egypt. The side of the relation that is never admitted in public although the tensions that arise from time to time. The movie just gave the real image without pointing out to a solution or even it didn't introduce a normal character who'd have a position away from extremism so people might sympathize with this character and think about the whole issue. Nevertheless, the movie dialogue was really serving the whole plot.

Overall the movie is a great start, at least there was admittance that we lacked which could bring the solution later on. But I have only one concern, which is there could be negative effect since it shows the negative image from religious extremists point of view, so people who are having second thoughts about the religion thing and watch the other religious personnel in the movie shouting hatred about their religion can just join the ship and instead of opening the public eyes for the problem we discover that we made a generation of new idiots who will bring nothing but disaster.