Review of Ajami

Ajami (2009)
7/10
Dichotomy is no longer dichotomy
12 September 2010
Story has been told by separate chapters, and not sequentially in time.

Each chapter gives just about the right weight for character and story-line development, no less and no more.

The film does let dichotomy regarding the cultural, religious, economic and ethnic conflicts be presented, beginning to end, as viewers may all have participated.

What distinguish the film from the average arrangement is 1). a back thrust of the powerful ending, and 2). the crisp closing of each chapter and 3). the motif gradually changing its tone from chapter to chapter. This gives the exciting movie going experiences, much more than, if this film has been shot in, a linear, one way, manner, instead, to offer.

After seeing the movie, viewers can fully apprehend why living in this territory is complicated enough and dichotomy is no longer dichotomy for an outsider to judge those who are in this entanglement of the millennium; sadly, it remains hard for generations to expect resolutions in an easy way.
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