What's The Deal with Kalemni Shukran?
Have you seen the new Egyptian movie 'Kalemni Shukran' ?
It has stirred up quite the criticism!
One Egyptian critic thinks that with this movie, the Egyptian movie industry has reached a new low!
The movie seems to get a few strange messages across; Kudos to the Egyptian police; they're perfect! Naguib Sawiris is the angel of businessmen! The only solution to getting over your poverty is prostitution!!!
The movie stars Amr Abdul Jalil, who plays a man who gets paid to attend talk shows and clap and Ghada Abderrazeq, a prostitute who has a sister who is an online prostitute!
Other characters include a baker who hides behind a religious beard, but sells the flour in the black market instead of making cheap bread for the layman and an unemployed man who's mission is to threaten everyone, everyday with committing suicide!
The critic wonders why the director of the movie has taken such a passive path towards the authority, although he has directed other good movies before like 'Hia Fawdha' and 'Heena Maysara' and 'Dukkan Shehata', which have also created a lot of controversy.
What do you think?
Personally, I haven't seen the movie, so I would like an insight into your opinion.
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thank you !!! i just saw this movie today and it is totaaallly awful .. dont waste ur time and watch such a low movie without any idea...!!! what's wrong with you khaled youssef?!!!
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like i said in a previous post the era of Egyptian cinema is dead
the dramas have been replaced by Turkey and Syria. As for film its a pity Lebanon only makes one film (or one film that isnt about the civil war or depressing) a year, since caramel and melodrama habibi proves it can easily take on Egypt on the film scale for quality. Maybe it will be Morocco,maybe it will be Tunisia or some other country but so far this era is the one of Egyptian films or stars all it has been dimming since the 80s.
It has money left but thats it. it needs to get back on track.
btw im disrespecting Egypt i love egypt and egyptian people but i love the golden era same for Lebanon. For these dismal times we live in we need escapism more than anything
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H.A.R films are made to provoke people and make them question all aspects of life. Now, you always paint prostitution as negative and sleazy, but you ignore the fact that certain prostitutes, whether they're female or male enjoy getting paid to have sex. It seems that for a lot of people prostitution conjures the image of poor women who have no choice but to sleep with men in order to make ends meet; however in the US, the high-end prostitutes are called "call girls" and they tend to be pretty well educated with bachelor degrees and are well off, but they continue to prostitute because they enjoy it! Now that's some food for thought! :) :-)
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Shaqila...i agree this age is not the golden era for Egyptian cinema production..bs beside bad movies produced there are some good ones also. the same cinema that made this movie n bdoon rekaba..made eljazeerah, heya fawdah, wahed sefr, ehky ya shahrzad and a lot others..but its just like any other country in the world..it has good production n bad ones...the only thing that matter is the proportion between both..
Being Lebanese my self, i really hope there will be more lebanese movies coz we do have lots of potentials but i havent heard lately of another Lebanese movie being produced..
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lol sorry *not disrespecting egypt
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Remember that Egyptian cinema remains amongst the oldest ever, and I recommend you watch some of the Egyptian movies from this year such as: 1000 Mabrouk, Teer Enta, Ibrahim El Abyad, Al Massafir (official election at the Venice Film Festival), Heliopolis (Official selection in over three international film festivals), Alwan El Sama el Sab3a, and E7ki Ya Sharazad (Selected in Worldwide film festivals, and won an award at the Venice Film Festival). So in terms of quality, there is alot.
I have no problem with Lebanon as well, but if Lebanon produced about 50 film a year, you would find 10 very good ones, and 10 Enjoyable ones, and 20 aimed at making a quick buck, which happens worldwide.
Ten years ago, I would have told you Egyptian cinema is at an all-time low, but today it certainly isn't. As for the TV shows, Egypt remains the biggest producer and highest watched drama in the Middle East, along with its fierce competition with Syria, which isn't a bad thing, because competition brings out the best from both. But to say the Egyptia drama isn't watched anymore isn't completely accurate as well.
There is no "Egyptian era", its existed for over 1000 years, and any film theater you'll find an
Egyptian movie, open up any channel, you'll find an Egyptian movie, drama or song.
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* Little mistake as well :D I mean "100 years", not "1000" :)
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i mean *golden era , well masry the thing with Lebanon it use to have a viable film industry (not comparable with Egypt back then) but still better than today this being before the war.
where as the music industry recovered better the film and tv market didnt this is why most lebanese actors either go to the theatre or do Egyptian movies because the one there is limited. the tv stations got bought by khaijis and saudis
but lol i wasnt kidding very few films are made today i think it was only one film listed last year at most 4 or 5 films in total get produced. Many of them are ammateurish and low budget nearly always themed around the civil war which is depressing. Bannat Sukkar(2007) and Melodrama habibi(2008) are great films to watch for people who either want to escape from that reality or want to sees a film that takes the piss out of it lightheartidly. There also originality and symbolic beauty from the films'''after the shave'' and Tayyara men wara''(2003) like monaliza says it has potential
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I am Egyptain, and it's really sad to see the Egyptian cinema getting to a whole different level. It's really shocking.However, there are good movies and we can't deny the fact, but ther are few :(
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What is the big deal?
There are always going to be some bad movies...
Not every egyptian movie can be good.
Its the same with american movies - some good/some bad
So what? Its normal.
U cant expect every movie to be good ANYWHERE!
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lol George, they enjoy it, ummm yeah right, typical male, they do it 4 the money and the money only, not because they like to open their legs to a clientele which would regularly include old fat men
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me ilove "America's Got Talent": A Million Dollar Talent Seeker! and ilove mbc 4 and ilove too What's The Deal with Kalemni Shukran?
MASRY
Jan 27, 2010
Well, the movie is presenting the everyday life of the Egyptians living in poverty, and the changes in our societies in the past 20 years.
I don't know where they got the whole police is perfect, and Naguib part from.