Submitted by Nazeem Hussain on 17 December 2008 - 9:32pm.
[Behind Closed Doors] First choice.
Initial reaction: What the freak?!?!???
Post-initial-reaction: This film is perfect the antidote to literalists, simplists and heartless soul-searchers of any creed or ideology. This film captures for me the real caustic search for truth in all its confusion. This film speaks to my past, and the clarity which I was seeking in religion or otherwise. Islam describes itself as a religion for those who think, and so introspection, criticism, rejection, deconstruction - aren't to be unexpected from a true adherent to the faith. I believe a problem with the world is that we lack sincere and meaningful self-criticism. In critiquing ourselves, and that which we hold close to us -- including faith -- we are evaluating the world.
Words can to a degree capture the eccentricity of the mind, but a film such as Behind Closed Doors, certainly opens doors to such a realm that a pen and paper would struggle to do.
The antidote to literalists
[Behind Closed Doors] First choice.
Initial reaction: What the freak?!?!???
Post-initial-reaction: This film is perfect the antidote to literalists, simplists and heartless soul-searchers of any creed or ideology. This film captures for me the real caustic search for truth in all its confusion. This film speaks to my past, and the clarity which I was seeking in religion or otherwise. Islam describes itself as a religion for those who think, and so introspection, criticism, rejection, deconstruction - aren't to be unexpected from a true adherent to the faith. I believe a problem with the world is that we lack sincere and meaningful self-criticism. In critiquing ourselves, and that which we hold close to us -- including faith -- we are evaluating the world.
Words can to a degree capture the eccentricity of the mind, but a film such as Behind Closed Doors, certainly opens doors to such a realm that a pen and paper would struggle to do.