Youssef Zidan comments on “Friends and my dearest”: an indication of madness and terrible foolishness

Writer and thinker, Youssef Zeidan, commented on the crisis created by the movie "Friends and Dearest", which reached Parliament, after MP Mustafa Bakri demanded that it be banned from showing in Egypt.

Zidan said in a post he wrote on his personal account on the social networking site “Facebook”: “To the many friends and loved ones who have been asking me over the past few days, with urgency, about my opinion on the current ongoing controversy over the movie (Friends and I am the dearest) and the scene of the actress Mona Zaki taking off the piece. The bottom of her underwear, before going out with her husband, who was later surprised that he was suffering from daughters or sodomy.

And Zidane added, through his personal account on the social networking site “Facebook”: “With the absurdity of the whole matter, I say: Overall, the clamor around this issue indicates the deteriorating state of the collective mentality in our society, I mean reaching the bottom of the pettiness and foolishness whose manifestations we see every A few days and then quickly fold."

He continued, "On the day of the eruption of this miserable trend, the most beautiful cultural forum in Alexandria (the Atelier) was closed forever, after it had been active for several decades, and none of those who were interested in the film paid any attention to this."

He explained: "This is another indication of the general insanity, collective obsession, and terrible confusion, and evidence of the mental and emotional emptiness that followed the collapse of the Islamic political project, and the exposure of those who were playing with religion for the sake of the world, and at the same time, the almost complete inability of intellectual, artistic and literary efforts in our country, and their inability to fill that void."

And he added: “In terms of detail, and in quick hints, I say: The scene of “khul’” in the film, I mean the scene that provoked bulls and cows, did not have an artistic function that justified it, and if it was not present, the film would not lack anything, and the fact that the wife discovers that her husband Sexually heterosexual, after many years of living with him and having several children with him, is technically unconvincing and only convinces the weak-minded and foolish.”

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