2023-08-28 04:24:00
A few days ago, the series “Seeb and I will leave” ended on the “Watch” platform. Since its fourth episode, the work has sparked widespread controversy in the Egyptian street, due to the large number of insults used in it. This prompted “Watch” to use vocal distortion techniques for insults in subsequent episodes.
The 10-episode series (written by Rana Abu Al-Rish and directed by Wael Ihsan) received various accusations, including “not being suitable for members of the Egyptian family.” To make things worse, the writer Abu Al-Rish’s statements, which denied that her main text had included any insults, brought back the wave of criticism to the fore, but this time once morest the director and the actors.
But in fact, the problems of “Seeb and I will leave” are greater than the insults crisis and the resulting reactions. Rather, the modifications to the text to suit a certain category of viewers are natural, since the work is romantic and is not suitable primarily for children, and it is not a series for different family members. The real problem in the work is related to its artistic quality, and to the vulgarity of the ideas and issues dealt with, by addressing them in a superficial way, which mainly works to perpetuate masculine concepts that control Arab societies.
The story of the work revolves around a girl named Bella (Hana Al Zahed), who belongs to a popular neighborhood, and loves the fashion world. She leaves her fiancé, Ibrahim (Ahmed Al-Saadani) on her wedding day, and travels to Lebanon to join a fashion design competition, which she wins to become a famous fashion designer. During a show transmitted on the screen, a famous actor proposes to marry her and she agrees, only to return years later to her old neighborhood to arrange marriage matters, only to be surprised that she is still legally married to Ibrahim; The one who asks her for obedience, so she is his wife by coercion.
The beginning of the series was promising, especially by deluding the viewer into discussing social and legal issues of concern to women, related to the abolition of a woman’s personality and aspirations following marriage, and the “House of Obedience” law that forces a woman to live with her husband once morest her will. But the dramatic start quickly turns into a cliché comedy, in which forced love triumphs over the independent Bella, who in the end can only be read as a caricature of a tamed feminist.
This is how “Seeb and I Seib” invested in attractive and thorny issues and issues to polish the prevailing ideas in societies, to depict the life that Bella lives in the “House of Obedience” in the context of an interesting romantic story; Violence and the muzzling of freedoms and authoritarianism turn into romantic situations. With the passing of the episodes, details and side stories emerge that revolve around the main story, its main goal being to justify Ibrahim’s violent and authoritarian practices once morest Bella. This is how we see the social support for him, when he refused to divorce the young woman, and when he deprived her of her phone, bank cards, etc…. while the rebellious female personality, or the search for a better life, is being demonized.
The meaningless “slapstick” scenes add to the show’s badness as well. In many scenes and side stories, the director resorts to violence and bullying to create comedy, without even a dramatic justification. Such as the scenes of the character presented by Ahmed Sultan, in which he is subjected to bullying and beatings without any context explaining the reason for creating this character, and imposing it on work events.
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