"Take the finest Hash
Worth its weight in gold
Yellow or Brown, it makes no difference
Add some more, don't be shy
The Hashish comes from my heart"
----- Excerpt from the greatest impromptu and cinemagraphically unneeded musical number in the history of film.
In a person's life, they may have a cinematic experience that completely changes their life. A movie so powerful, so raw, so honest that the annals of moviemaking are opened immediately for its lifetime preservation.
"Where do We Go Now?" Is NOT that movie. But you know what.... It's not a bad one either!
"Where Do We Go Now?" Is set in a Lebanese village which is primarily cut off from the rest of the region by a field of landmines. One small bride serves as the only contact with the outside world. In this village, a tight-knit community of Muslims and Christians have lived together peacefully for years. However, unknown forces pull the village into strife, pitting neighbor against neighbor. It is up to the Mayor's wife, Yvonne, and her cohort of respected ladies in the village, to keep the men from killing each other. They also make hash brownies.
The first time I attempted to make hash brownies, I completely forgot about the importance of ensuring you have a well-choreographed musical number to perform during their preparation. While I am not as crass to assume that all Lebanese ladies burst into song and dance while making marijuana edibles, I certainly have never had the foresight to do the same. As such, my hash brownies did not turn out nearly as kind as the ladies of the village make them. To prove my point, their husbands end up getting so high that they completely forgot why they we're fighting each other. Which brings us to the moral of the story: Marijuana can end war!
This movie is rife with comedy, tragedy, violence, love, forgiveness, and even redemption. It tells a story and teaches a lesson that moves the viewer into a sense of empathy, coupled with the emotional raw power of what could be construed as one of the funniest sad movies I've ever seen, or one of the saddest funny movies I've ever seen. Either way, the character of the village mayor looks very much like Danny Devito, an observation I happened across after smoking what some might consider a to be a heroic amount of cannabis.
But the most intriguing thing to a viewer that is only vaguely familiar with middle eastern culture would be the fact that as tough and as macho as these guys want to be, these sisters run the friggin' town, best believe dat! As an example of their political savvy, at one point In the plotline, this seemingly innocuous band of sweet little old ladies hire what seems to be...well...hookers. Why they do this, I have no idea. But it was certainly funnier than anything Ben Stiller ever did. As such, the men of the village are temporarily distracted by bountiful Ukrainian cleavage and the perverse thoughts that come with it as they regress back into adolescence, leaving the women of the village to further their plans.
In summation, "Where Do we Go Now?" is a lighthearted romp mixed with gut-wrenching tragedy that serves to entertain even the most skeptical of undergraduate Beginning Arabic II students at the University of Colorado Denver. A movie well worth your time, especially if watching it saves you from taking what could have been a very painful exam but you have a super-awesome professor that knows you need a nice bump in your grade so you do the review and try to make it funny because the movie was actually really, really, funny and I literally played the hash brownies song over and over again because it's the best thing I've heard all day.
Final Rating: 7/10. It may not be "Along the Waterfront", but if you've watched everything on your Netflix queue and your girlfriend wants to watch something that doesn't involve explosions and fart jokes, "Where Do We Go Now?" is certainly worth a rental.
In a person's life, they may have a cinematic experience that completely changes their life. A movie so powerful, so raw, so honest that the annals of moviemaking are opened immediately for its lifetime preservation.
"Where do We Go Now?" Is NOT that movie. But you know what.... It's not a bad one either!
"Where Do We Go Now?" Is set in a Lebanese village which is primarily cut off from the rest of the region by a field of landmines. One small bride serves as the only contact with the outside world. In this village, a tight-knit community of Muslims and Christians have lived together peacefully for years. However, unknown forces pull the village into strife, pitting neighbor against neighbor. It is up to the Mayor's wife, Yvonne, and her cohort of respected ladies in the village, to keep the men from killing each other. They also make hash brownies.
The first time I attempted to make hash brownies, I completely forgot about the importance of ensuring you have a well-choreographed musical number to perform during their preparation. While I am not as crass to assume that all Lebanese ladies burst into song and dance while making marijuana edibles, I certainly have never had the foresight to do the same. As such, my hash brownies did not turn out nearly as kind as the ladies of the village make them. To prove my point, their husbands end up getting so high that they completely forgot why they we're fighting each other. Which brings us to the moral of the story: Marijuana can end war!
This movie is rife with comedy, tragedy, violence, love, forgiveness, and even redemption. It tells a story and teaches a lesson that moves the viewer into a sense of empathy, coupled with the emotional raw power of what could be construed as one of the funniest sad movies I've ever seen, or one of the saddest funny movies I've ever seen. Either way, the character of the village mayor looks very much like Danny Devito, an observation I happened across after smoking what some might consider a to be a heroic amount of cannabis.
But the most intriguing thing to a viewer that is only vaguely familiar with middle eastern culture would be the fact that as tough and as macho as these guys want to be, these sisters run the friggin' town, best believe dat! As an example of their political savvy, at one point In the plotline, this seemingly innocuous band of sweet little old ladies hire what seems to be...well...hookers. Why they do this, I have no idea. But it was certainly funnier than anything Ben Stiller ever did. As such, the men of the village are temporarily distracted by bountiful Ukrainian cleavage and the perverse thoughts that come with it as they regress back into adolescence, leaving the women of the village to further their plans.
In summation, "Where Do we Go Now?" is a lighthearted romp mixed with gut-wrenching tragedy that serves to entertain even the most skeptical of undergraduate Beginning Arabic II students at the University of Colorado Denver. A movie well worth your time, especially if watching it saves you from taking what could have been a very painful exam but you have a super-awesome professor that knows you need a nice bump in your grade so you do the review and try to make it funny because the movie was actually really, really, funny and I literally played the hash brownies song over and over again because it's the best thing I've heard all day.
Final Rating: 7/10. It may not be "Along the Waterfront", but if you've watched everything on your Netflix queue and your girlfriend wants to watch something that doesn't involve explosions and fart jokes, "Where Do We Go Now?" is certainly worth a rental.