Saturday, August 31, 2013

Where do we go now

An interesting Lebanese movie is an understatement. The movie starts by showing us Muslims and Christians living together in a small neighborhood peacefully. This town is so remote that getting signal to watch television or to listen to the radio is a privilege. Despite their remoteness, the men still fought each other because of religious segregation. The women, however, were more thick skinned and devised a way to make peace among the men. They arranged to have Ukrainian prostitutes stay in the village for a while. This worked temporarily, then the men were at each others throats again. This put the ladies into a higher gear. They baked cookies and other pastries with an assortment of drugs and hash. The Ukrainian ladies then gave them a dance show. During this time, the women raided the houses, taking all the guns and burying them. By the next day, men were calmer and women switched religions to show the men that their previous actions were wrong. 

In an effort to maintain peace, a woman did not alert the community to her murdered son. By the end of the movie, when the men calmed down, the son's body was taken to the cemetery. However, given that the women had now changed religion and the cemetery was divided based on religion, the pallbearers asked the question 'where do we go now?'. Where indeed.

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