Excellent film.

Watched a Syrian movie today. Weirdly, this movie isn't even stated on IMDB, neither is the actor/director Doureid Laham (which is one of the most prominent names in the Arabic movie scene).
Anyway, The film was made in 1984, when the war in the middle-east was at its peak, and all the Arabic nations were facing internal segregations, after the failure of the "United Arab Republic" in 1971 and the first occupation of Israel to an Arabic capital (Beirut) in 1982. However, Arabs in these days were still under the slogan of "One History, One Identity, One Nation", even though borders were created daily to separate this so called unified "nation".




Comes this movie, The Border (1983) by Doureid Laham, a Syrian politically engaged comedian, that has always showed the serious contradictions ruling this part of the world. In this film, Laham plays the role of Abdel Wadoud, a citizen that believes in the unison of his nation, and has went in a trip to discover the lands of his country. During his trip, and the many borders, he loses his passport and gets stuck between two border checks. A bit like in The Terminal, the protagonist will try to make a life out of his absurd situation, while still in the hope of returning to his true Home.




I really liked it, it has some very good moments. The dark humour is very subtle and stringent at the same time. It also has a hint of Monty Python comedy. Plus, the music written by Samir Helmi is very nice.
The best quality about it is though, the movie never falls in the melodramatic moments, while telling the tragic story of the stranger in his own country.

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Oh dear. Survival of the dead is barely a zombie movie and instead is a kind of pseudo western. It's not inherently awful but it's not all that great either. Suspense, shocks and his legendary social criticism is virtually non existent. Had to get it though to keep my 'Of The Dead' DVD library up to date.

His social criticism seemed pretty obvious to me, but yeah - what an utter bore. No likeable characters, horrible computer graphics instead of old school gore, story riddled with an almost painful lack of common logic ..

Thanks for the major influence on popular culture, Mr. Romero, but your genius is highly overrated.

Have you checked out Dead Snow yet Tore from your homeland? Now that's what I call a great zombie movie.

Of course :) I don't think it was completely brilliant, but at least it was entertaining! That's more than you can say for Survival.

My girlfriend thought survival of the dead was an okay zombie film, basically because it didn't scare her. :rolleyes:

Yeah but they are not meant to scare you really!

I've just watched The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights.

Thought it was really good, nicely put together.

I was recommended some movie called Bronco Gentlemen or something like that. Anyone seen it? I don't know, the guy described it as pretty kooky- but he did NOT like Black Dynamite, and I'm not sure if I'm okay with that...

i saw the trailer and it looked terrible.