Trans Allegories in Film: 'Robots' (2005)
Animation as a medium of storytelling can be thought to be open to all ages and as I hope my readings will reveal, they could be interpreted as transgender stories.
Enta Omri
Wajih Bey (Abdul Salam al-Nabulsi) is a very rich man who has everything, but he lacks happiness. His assistants try to make him happy in any way by bringing in great singers (Fahad Ballan - Najah Salam - Sabah) or dancing parties. He goes out to the street dressed as a Roman, so he is suspected of his mental faculties and imprisoned in a prison. So he hopes for poverty for the sake of happiness. He lavishes his assistant's fiancé, Amal Al-Faqir, with money and appoints him with him in the company. He meets Suhair, and and she changes his life.
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Wajih Bey (Abdul Salam al-Nabulsi) is a very rich man who has everything, but he lacks happiness. His assistants try to make him happy in any way by bringing in great singers (Fahad Ballan - Najah Salam - Sabah) or dancing parties. He goes out to the street dressed as a Roman, so he is suspected of his mental faculties and imprisoned in a prison. So he hopes for poverty for the sake of happiness. He lavishes his assistant's fiancé, Amal Al-Faqir, with money and appoints him with him in the company. He meets Suhair, and and she changes his life.
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