Beauty, music, art, singing, dancing, youth, love, sex, revolution and more in the movie “Ali the suit of my eyes” (2015 – directed by Leila Bouzid – available on “Our Films” which takes place in Tunisia in the summer of 2010, months before “ The Jasmine Revolution.” There lives Farah (Beya Muzaffar) who loves music and wants an independent life, with a lot of passion. She discovers love and dives into her city at night. She has boundless energy. But she is like the Arab girls whose future parents and society determine before they are born. However, she refuses to submit to all of that, so she collides with the opposition of the parents who want her as a doctor, as well as the customs, traditions, social norms and the system that limits her impulse.Farah stands in the face of all those around her, led by her mother Hayat (Ghalia Ben Ali), to start her revolution by singing.Farah lives a critical moment. In her life, between her mother, who forces her to study medicine, and her dream of studying music, Farah and her band mix classical and modern Tunisian music with words that criticize the political reality and social contradictions in the country. Under the microscope, this mother is a revolutionary in the Qalb sees herself in her daughter when she was young. She used to have a free spirit, but the situation is different now, and she is determined to protect her daughter, from herself first and from Tunisia second, because circumstances have changed, she is tense because of all the events that have happened and are still happening. Waheeda, frustrated with Tunisia and the situation, sad for her husband, who lives far from them and the capital because of his refusal to join the ruling party.
Farah is from a revolutionary family, but with different generations and the passage of time, priorities change, and the mother knows Tunisia well and knows how this country can crush anyone who tries to break with tradition and society. The mother-daughter relationship fluctuates at every moment in the film, making you support both ideas at the same time. Leila Bouzid did not put us in the position of a judge or a judge, but she tried to show the problem, so that we might feel and understand both points of view.
The tape consists of three parts separated by blackness
We sympathized with Farah and supported her cause once morest the injustice of the system and the society that is rising up once morest young people who live their lives as they want, in love, music and the arts. We understand the mother who is trying to protect her daughter from everything, because following all the events, revolutions, love and life, she has nothing left but joy, to give her love and protection.
Leila Bouzid explored the forbidden and presented a film in a purely Tunisian spirit. With three parts separated by blackness, Bouzid started a movie with music, and gradually took us to silence as the Arab authorities do by absorbing the youth’s vigor. The story of the film is not new, as it has been presented in many films, but Leila Bouzid adds spirit to the story through colours, music and acting.
* “On the suit of my eyes” until tomorrow, Wednesday, on “Our Films” aflamuna.online
