Where Do We Go Now? A discussion about the movie by Nadine Labaki

of Allah, the

Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful.

All children belong to Jesus Christ.

A movie

that I really love very much and

One of the movies that sort of in a way more speaks to my heart than my brain, if you want.

The plot in the movie is actually quite simple.

We are in a small village in Lebanon, surrounded by growing conflict and violence.

And the people in the village consist of sort of equal parts of Muslims and Christians living in peace, more or less.

In the very first scene in the movie, we sort of get the idea that conflict is growing.

It's setting the tone.

And we see the women of the village going to the cemetery in some sort of mourning parade.

And we see that the graveyard is split in two sections, the Christian side and the Muslim side, and with losses on both sides.

So conflict is somewhere around us.

But as the movie progresses, we slowly learn that the reason peace has been kept inside this village is because of these women who will do their best to keep the outside conflict hidden from the men in the village.

And this is sort of the whole premise of the movie that the conflicts outside is escalating and so must the efforts by these women also do just to keep peace inside this village.

And the reason I chose this movie, there are several reasons, but one of them, of course, being that Thomas in the last episode sort of said, and I agree totally, that we are called world in a frame and so that the movies we pick to discuss should also sort of reflect the world as such.

So I thought that a movie from Lebanon is not that common in the world of cinema.

So I thought that would be very appropriate to pick this one.

And there are some topics that I think could be interesting to discuss, so I'll just sort of lay out some of them, and then we'll just go on with the discussion.

First and foremost, this movie is interesting because it's... total mess, some would say a mess, you could call it a blend of different genres.

It's a comedy, it's a drama, it's a musical, it's tragedy and so on.

And in one hand, as I said, could be seen as sort of a bit of a total mess.

But in other ways, it might also reflect sort of the culture in Lebanon.

Then there's also the use of non-actors.