The film tells of a love story linking the heart of Aziza and Jamal, and links a friendship between Jamal and Selim, the disabled young man who escapes from the persecution of his family to him and who is embraced by Abu Jamal, as if he was one of his sons
Not a lot of people realize that being introverted is not always a permanent state of mind. Being considered an introvert by others is a complicated thing; not everyone likes being labelled “shy.”
Some moments of the series are intense and ends on a cliff-hanger that will have you yearning for a second season.
Episode 3, entitled “Now in Color,” brings us to the 1970s — a decade full of vibrancy, color, and total mayhem.
These confines won’t really encourage you to read the film as a metaphor for the nerve-inducing experience we’ve all been through over the last year, however — and in the interest of maintaining your dignity, you probably shouldn’t. While the sociopolitical commentary may have worked for the similarly-themed Buried (2010), in which we find Ryan Reynolds on his own buried alive in the Middle East, but this futuristic take on the premise is best left as a piece of distracting entertainment. Nevertheless, the atmosphere is no less suffocating, literally and dramatically.
Kate Winslet and Saorise Ronan deliver stellar performances in a film that doesn't live up to its potential.
