Exposed to the nineties in the Kingdom

“Al-Asouf 3” .. confused between documentation and drama

The series continues to raise controversy in the third part.

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Since the first part, which was shown in 2018, the series "Al-Asouf" has been able to top the views and "Trend", and ignite a wide controversy through the media and social networking sites, due to its boldness in drawing a picture of the details of the life of Saudi society in the seventies and beyond, He raised many controversial issues, and the controversy increased with the second part, which was shown in 2019, and its events ended with the incident of Juhayman's storming of the Great Mosque of Mecca in 1979. As for the third part, which is shown in the month of Ramadan, it deals with a social comic form of the nineties, and monitors detailed political, social and economic events During that period, such as the emergence of the “Awakening” in the eighties of the last century, the emergence of the “Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice,” the invasion of Kuwait, the Gulf War, and others.

“Is it documentation or a drama?” This question was the focus of the controversy that accompanied “Al-Asouf” since the beginning of its presentation, and continued in the third part, as some criticized the absence of details of his life related to the nineties, such as the absence of popular games and certain crafts that were prevalent in neighborhoods Old Saudi Arabia, specifically Najd, in which the Al-Tayyan family lives, and whose events revolve around its members.

Then the controversy moved to deal with the image in which the work is presented by the “Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice,” the beginning of the emergence of “mutawa” and the behaviors they were doing, which appeared at various stations, including a scene objecting to “mutawwa’ah” a man and a woman in the market because they suspected that she was his wife. They are taken to the police station and interrogated to prove that she is indeed his wife, and another scene shows a member of the commission breaking down two women sitting outside their house due to the power outage in the house.

The pioneers of the communication sites were divided between a group that believes that the series deliberately presents an image that carries a lot of exaggeration to offend the authority, its members and their practices, and also criticized the intense focus on the authority as if there were no prominent features of the nineties but it.

While another group indicated that the positions that appeared in the episodes do not bear exaggeration, but it is a contemporary reality experienced by many of the people of the kingdom.

With the transition of events to the invasion of Kuwait, the circle of controversy expanded through social networking sites, most of which focused on the difference between drama and documentation, and the role of art in monitoring important historical events.

However, the work is credited with its keenness to address important events to introduce them to new generations, and to urge viewers to search and read about them.

The series also highlights the keenness of those in charge of it - as much as possible - to convey the atmosphere of the periods covered in each part, through the shape of the streets, clothes and cars that were used in each period, and to combine historical events and dramatic threads into a cohesive fabric, as it prevailed over spontaneity and balance far from exaggeration. repulsive;

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The series “Al-Asouf 3” starring the artists: Nasser Al-Qasabi, Abdul-Ilah Al-Sinani, Habib Al-Habib, Reem Abdullah, Laila Al-Salman, Abdulaziz Scaren, Rimas Mansour, and Zara Al-Balushi, directed by Al-Muthanna Sobh.

• Critics of the work saw that it “intentionally presents an image that carries a lot of exaggeration.”

• Tweeters considered that “the situations that appeared in the series are a reality that many have lived through.”

• “I overcame the spontaneity and poise, away from exaggeration.”

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