Hussam Fahmy
Some people may think that just reading the name of this series "Messiah" is that it revolves around the era of Christ, peace be upon him, or others may think that it revolves around the Abrahamic religious narration of the return of Christ, or the temptation of the Antichrist, but the intelligence of Netflix and the creators of this work appears in all this Together, mainly in their ability to manipulate preconceptions among viewers.
In this work, a story that we all know is manipulated, where the series is launched through an idea or belief that we all know, then told a completely different story, to the point that it compels us to rethink our preconceived notions with which we started watching.
How did this happen then, and how did the makers of the series "Messiah" take advantage of what we know religiously to manipulate our political ideas in this work?
Doubt
The first and most important suspense element in the series is that it does not make it clear whether we are seeing someone who has superpowers, or is he claiming this, or are we in front of a fraudster player who has a fraud and has some political agenda?
From the beginning, the man who nicknamed him “Christ” moves between the Middle East, Syria in particular, then Palestine, the borders with the state of the Zionist entity, then suddenly to the United States, and everywhere suspicion is present.
This man makes supernatural things, such as a dust storm that ends the siege of the Islamic State (ISIS) for a Syrian city, or a similar storm in one of the poor states of the American South, but every time the suspicion remains that he takes advantage of this atmosphere, no more, no less, and the more suspicion persists Viewers continue to follow the series further, because this is precisely the main question, from where and where does it come from?
the war
The political agenda of this man who claims to be Christ appears clear at times, and at other times mysterious .. At first he speaks with words full of signs of peace, harmony and fraternity, then leads a group of Palestinian refugees to the borders of the lands occupied by the Zionist entity, then leaves them there without water or food And there is no weapon, of course, until hunger and thirst lead to them.
On the other hand, this man goes to America to ask his religious right-wing president to withdraw all American forces everywhere around the world, and here the series plays on the idea of war, especially with showing Iranian origins for this awaited Messiah, in a way that we cannot ignore with him the image of the Iranian. Terrorism "according to the American media.
Weak and strong points
The strength of the series here comes through its moderately manipulating the characters of its heroes, the CIA agent, who is playing "Michelle Mongan", who seems unusually dispersed and unfamiliar with all the details.
The Israeli officer, who is played by the French-Israeli actor Tomer Sisley, who appears violent and bloody while giving space to understand the reasons for this, unlike the personality of the Israeli officers who are usually provided by American productions as heroes, in addition to the personality of the main action hero who remains suspicious of being a representative of good or evil throughout Events.
The most important weak point is also highlighted in this context through a very shallow treatment of the personality of the leader of the extremist movement among Islamists in Palestine, where we see a grim figure who never smiles, speaks ruggedly throughout, until he is involved in a bombing that kills dozens of innocent people, thus without any Dramatic or human justifications.
What is faith?
In its entirety, the series then seems preoccupied with references and preconceived ideas of its viewers. The hero of the role that plays the role of Christ is his real name, "Mahdi", who is a Belgian actor of Arab descent, and the boy who helps Mahdi in carrying out his mission from the beginning, and translates his thoughts into actions called " Gabriel".
Signals continue through extraordinary actions that the series sets without sufficient explanation at the hands of its hero, starting with walking on water, sometimes to resurrecting the dead, and the series seems not interested in confirming the truth of these actions, but sometimes it provides us with news clips that attempt to explain these actions As a "lightness games" done by many itinerant witches!
But suspicion continues to take shape, and doubts here are mainly about the ability of this man to persuade all his opponents to believe in him, especially since he exploits in his pursuit all that made them believers in the first place. It is like re-testing your faith in what you already believe in. Did you believe in him because you did not see him Or are stories, history and politics in particular in today's world more powerful than faith?