Reviews

I just finished watching season 3 of Homeland an American series based on an Israeli series called Prisoners of war. The story is new and it takes you to intelligence agencies fight, this time inside the USA. The series was full of problems when it came to address the Muslim characters. I hope I would get to see the day when American movie makers would even google the way Muslims talk and pray. The way the Muslim character prayer in the series is more of a Hindu than a Muslim.

The story line is really solid and you remain interested at every part of the series. All actors taking part in the production are mediocre, except for Claire Danes. She excelled into showing this motivated yet disturbed character she played. You swing between hating her into being in love with her character through out the story line.

I have no intention into adding any spoilers in here, but I just wished Showtime had decided to bringing Homeland into a close after season 3. The way this season ended could have made the series the best among American TV productions to come in terms with the audience. TV in America is totally dependent on money and ratings they don't mind to ruin their art sometimes for the sake of more dough. I liked Homeland (especially the third season) so much I definitely would sanely choose not to watch the next season.

I watched Al Midan or @Thesquarefilm yesterday. I am not quiet used to watch a movie about an affair that I lived day by day. The film has triggered lots of emotions towards what has become to be known as a revolution and I'd rather call the 2011 demonstrations that I used to join on daily basis at the time.

The movie is not bad at all and I definitely wish it would clinch an Oscar. Out of supporting a fellow Egyptian of course. Although it is not chronologically perfect and sometimes you get lost out of time , and you don't get comprehend when exactly this scene taking place in, but I guess it was quiet fair into pointing fingers at the culprits causing the ultimate failure of the demos. The revolutionaries for their Utopia kind of day dreams, the Ikhwan (MB) for being selfish and betraying the common calls of the demos for the sake of their own wishes and the military for not fulfilling their promises to the naive revolutionaries and eventually eating the whole cake alone.

The characters in the movie represent different parts of the revolutionaries spectrum but many different characters have been missed. They forgot those who got fed up with the whole thing and would rather live in tyranny once more than this mess. They forget to show the selfish Islamists still running after their dreams of running an Afghanistan kind of state.

The movie drove me through anger at myself in the beginning for being naive as well and trusting those people who ruined our dreams and towards our fellow demonstrators for daring to dream. Then, I grew into feeling sad for the people we lost along the way and for not being able to slap these selfish cunning Islamists at the face some time for doing what they did to us.

I totally recommend owning a copy of the movie once the DVD is released. The future generations have to watch it, they should know who not to trust. They should not repeat the same mistakes.

A well earned 7 out of 10 is what I would rate it.