The movie “The Prestige”
Before reading further and considering the article as a condescending article on the part of the Syrians and the Lebanese, please deliberate a little. The article will not be a critical article regarding the film, but on the contrary, it will be an article regarding the power of art and artists and the capabilities to face any difficulties or obstacles, whatever they may be.
The prestige movie, which came following great success in the Arab world, is considered a challenge in itself, and this challenge requires providing support to it in any way possible, even with constructive criticism for several reasons. The small – big country – and just thinking regarding producing a film at this level is considered an achievement, so how regarding completing the film, and most of the actors are from Lebanon and Syria, and this is a matter in itself that requires stopping at, the union of artists from the two countries at this particular time and nothing more beautiful, because of the political and economic conditions that pass through the two countries.
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Beautiful Syria has been suffering from an internal war for more than ten years, and the Syrian artist is perhaps the one who suffers the most from these conditions due to the suspension of local production due to the security and economic conditions. On the other hand, the Lebanese artist is lost between securing a living and getting his lost money from banks and of course the lack of local production, The beautiful thing is that the film brought a group of actors from the two countries, as if they were emerging from the womb of one pain, and one hope, which is a return to security, safety, tranquility and peace.
In terms of direction, the film is breathtaking and most of its scenes are drawn despite the unjustified lengthening of some scenes, especially the scene of stitching a mountain wound and the scenes of the last battle, which were not convincing to a large extent due to its continuation for a longer period than the battle if it actually happened, in addition to the Hellenistic method that no one of the good people die In exchange for eliminating all the bad guys, down to the last of them, and many of the movie scenes, and I don’t know if that was at the request of the director or director of photography, is similar to many foreign films, especially the Good False movie, with Idris sitting in front of a hot pepper plant, similar to Don Robert De Niro’s session in front of the tomatoes that He cultivates it with his own hands, so that many of the scenes might have been dispensed with and the film might have been turned into an oriental film par excellence, not an oriental imitating Western methods, because the budget that was set for the film was not small and it was possible to find impressive ideas for the Arab viewer.
The text in general is beautiful and is considered a continuation of the previously shown parts of the series, but the writing of the script has brilliantly overcome this obstacle, so the text of the film came complete with a flashback that is not tiring, but on the contrary, it is very comfortable and puts you in the atmosphere in the least possible time. For the other to relieve the atmosphere of gangs, murder, blood and tension.
It is calculated for the film or for the series makers before it, that the area in which the events take place is a tribal area par excellence, practicing smuggling and drug trafficking and other illegal matters, but with controls imposed by the clan and origins, especially the issue of revenge and honor, but to be honest, it is not that ideal in Lebanon and perhaps he wanted Film makers embellish reality, for what is happening on the ground other than movies and series, and perhaps those who follow the course of things on the ground will liken it to the severity of the issue of revenge in Upper Egypt, which is considered the most cruel in our Arab region.
In general, the film is beautiful and deserves to be watched, but the filmmakers are criticized for putting it on one of the viewing platforms before distributing it in cinema halls in Egypt. Egypt is the human reservoir for these works that secures them success and continuity, but the reactions of those who attended the special show were very beautiful and predicted his success in the Egyptian halls.
In the end, we repeat that the film brings Lebanon and Syria back to the cinematic map, despite all that the two countries are going through.
