Niam--I agree. Poor in a rich city is an interesting twist.
However, despite affi's profanity (and obvious failure to grasp criticism), I have a hard time getting past the falseness of the portrayal. How many gas attendants can afford their own flat, meet the income level to have a visa for their wives, and have their wives with them? I'm guessing zero. In consequence, the film offers a rosy, false picture of workers' lives in Doha. It's propaganda that wrongly portrays workers' lives in quasi-idealistic way. A realistic portrayal would be him living without his wife for two years in bug-infested barrack/prison and being driven around on an unairconditioned bus.
Perhaps something that showed him yearning for an expensive object in a shop window that he wanted to buy for his wife would be more accurate--then, when entered the mall having saved enough money, security guards could eject him for being a so-called bachelor.
Niam--I agree. Poor in a rich city is an interesting twist.
However, despite affi's profanity (and obvious failure to grasp criticism), I have a hard time getting past the falseness of the portrayal. How many gas attendants can afford their own flat, meet the income level to have a visa for their wives, and have their wives with them? I'm guessing zero. In consequence, the film offers a rosy, false picture of workers' lives in Doha. It's propaganda that wrongly portrays workers' lives in quasi-idealistic way. A realistic portrayal would be him living without his wife for two years in bug-infested barrack/prison and being driven around on an unairconditioned bus.
Perhaps something that showed him yearning for an expensive object in a shop window that he wanted to buy for his wife would be more accurate--then, when entered the mall having saved enough money, security guards could eject him for being a so-called bachelor.
The cinematography, however, is excellent.