The film "Guest" .. Should Ibrahim Issa have written the script?

Adam Mounir - Cairo

About two years ago, the film "Maulana" was screened for the novel by Ibrahim Issa, who took the same name. The film was written by Magdi Ahmed Ali, and the story was written by Ibrahim Issa in his first film. Scriptwriting for Ibrahim Issa, directed by Hadi El-Bagouri.

This time Issa did not take the film about one of his novels, but he personally inspired him.

Film of several articles
The film revolves around one night, the family of Dr. Yahya Tijani (Khaled Al-Sawy), his wife Marilyn (Sherine Reza) and his young daughter Farida (Jamila Awad).

The guest is Eng. Osama (Ahmad Malik), who quickly clashes with Dr. Yahya because of the apparent difference in religious views, where Osama tends to radical views, while Yahya adopts liberal views.

If you read the previous Savior well know that there are almost no events in the film, this is not an exaggeration, the film inspired by the personality of Ibrahim Issa and his personal life, this shows the beginning of the character features of the character of Yahya, and then from the first scenes of the film we find that Khaled Al-Sawi embodies the performance of Ibrahim Issa It is clear in the manner of casting jokes and ridicule, in its style of discussion and closing of ports on its interlocutors.

This is not only the first feature of the similarity with Ibrahim Issa, and we do not mean, of course, that there is a mistake in the author to provide parts of his life story, but what matters most to us is the fact that the author turned the film into several discussions about religion as we see in his programs or read in his articles.

The scenario divides the viewer into several lengthy dialogues in the same place, and each scene gives us a discussion about an idea, such as the rule of Muslims in the world before and the need to dislike the West, and provides another chapter on the acceptance of the different in religion, a chapter on the veil, A dialogue between Yahya and Usama usually involves the use of several religious references, as if we are following a tuk-shu episode between two parties in contrast.

Apart from this chapter we find none of the other chapters add a dramatic dramatic rise of events, but this chapter produced only a few scenes of tension between the father and mother in the party and the daughter in another party ended She quickly apologized to her father and said to her, "Who is I more capable than you?" And so the tension ends.

This is not the only problem. The arrangement of these chapters is itself another problem. It is not harmful to make the separation of the scholars from earlier or later to the separation of the West because entering into most of these discussions has nothing to do with the events, The scenario is that this topic opens now. We find Osama saying without introductions, "I noticed your admiration for the West, Doctor." The discussion begins with the same problem as the appearance, history and evolution of characters.

Characters passed from here
In the second third of the film, the doorbell rings suddenly to enter Hani (Majid Al-Kadwani) Marlin's brother, from the beginning of Hani's appearance to the last dialogue he says we can see how to draw characters inside the film.

Hani arrives home despite the rain because he wanted to be sure of Yahya after being sentenced to prison for contempt of religion.

The reason Hani is going to come home is Wah, he tried to contact them more than once and they do not respond to their phones, although from the beginning of the film we see Yahya holding his phone all the time to follow the news of football matches, but we overlook this justification, to follow what will happen The newcomer changed on the events, and the result was: nothing.

Hani did not add any change in the position of any of the characters, and did not progress or change the course of events, and when he left minutes and while standing on the door deposit Yahya Hamsa tells him in reference to Osama, "Oued De Behebek you are not unique," was expected This phrase is a sign of what will happen next, but it was only a faint signal can be dispensed with the same can be dispensed with Hani's entire character without being affected by events.

What we have mentioned about this character can be seen in the rest of the characters. The justification that is unique to this young man is that her house contains large doses of freedom and that is why she decided to look for a committed young man. This is so, even though her relationship with her parents does not reflect any A hint of disagreement or dissatisfaction even slightly.

In another scene, Marilyn tells her daughter that she has cancer and recommends that she not tell her father, this detail also did not add anything to the events and did not develop the girl's relationship with her mother.

In his second attempt to write the script, Ibrahim Eissa moved away from the TV world and Qawalsh, which he presented in "Maulana", but did not depart from the same content, religious debates and attempts to open up topics that he did not listen to. He drowned more in the world of his articles and dialogues. New to his ideas.