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MCA: Nightmarish Outcomes of Tyranny

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Article by Taha Elkhalifa Dogtooth , the Greek film is a drama about how dictatorship could affect human behavior and psychology. Re-framing of people, for example, was the mere goal of the Islamist rulers of Sudan from 30th of June 1989 until now. The same process is taking place in many Arab Gulf countries with a continuum of human products that reflect the complete submission to the quiet and negative rejection of the re-framing process. In Dogtooth words are given different meanings for example zombie means yellow flower, telephone means table salt and pussy (the female genitalia) means lamp and the cat is an extremely dangerous animal. The three adolescents who have no names in the film were taught these meanings by their parents as the plot of the film says. An example of this same naming type was lived in Sudan during the civil war (1989-2007). The directed and controlled media of the Sudanese Islamic rulers practiced some sort of open deception as they named genocide an...

Movie Critic Review: Zorba The Greek (1964)

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" All right, we go outside where God can see us better." Alexis Zorba "God has a very big heart but there is one sin he will not forgive; [slaps table] if a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go. I know because a very wise old Turk told me." Alexis Zorba --------------------------------   Zorba (Anthony Quinn) with a lascivious look lays the gentle order, ' Two beds Madam. Without bugs! ' Mme Hortense defiantly tilts her head and answers proudly, ' Mme has not THE bugs! ' Anthony Quinn The bookish intellectual Basil  (Alan Bates)  who  has appeared unaffected  by  the collective vertigo experienced on the boat taking them to Crete,  did not seem interested in this outward  and stimulated first-time exchange between his newly-found companion, a robust natural philosopher named Alexis Zorbas and this old  lady who rushed  Lila Kedrova to offer them her  hospitality services in her own ( Marriot ) of a d...