Monsieur Ibrahim

[andi]

Has anyone seen the movie ''Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran'' ? Yes is a French movie.
I just watched last night and I really enjoyed it. Somehow it made me think of Gurdjieff's movie : ''Meeting with Remarkable Man''

It's not a new movie, it's a 2003

Wiki:

Plot

The film begins in a working-class neighborhood in the Paris of the 1960s. The main character, Moїse Schmidt (Momo), is a young Jewish boy growing up without a mother and with a father afflicted by crippling depression. Momo is fascinated by the elderly Turkish Muslim man (Ibrahim Demirci, pronounced Demir-dji) who runs a grocery store across the street from his apartment (where Momo often shoplifts). Their relationship develops and soon Momo feels closer to Ibrahim than to his father. Ibrahim affectionately calls Moїse Momo, and adopts him when his father leaves and commits suicide. Momo and Ibrahim go on a journey to Turkey, Ibrahim's homeland, in their new car (a Simca Aronde Océane).

youtube triller:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83ycIA5PjYA

 

[hnd]

I'd like to check it,Andi. Thank you for sharing it. Actually, there was some kind of synchronicity regarding this post of yours I couldn't help noticing because I had a dream in which I was looking for a "grocery" and in which I later realized that I was in "Israel" and after I wrote about it, as I was reading latest posts, I saw this one for the first time and it was about a film I have never heard before. It just added more to the weird feelings I had at the time. It isn't not a big deal at all and I read many warnings about synchronicities in the forum but also as stated in the transcript 97.10.07 "the synchronicity which is always a tell-tale signal of changes apparent and imminent. Changes which are not necessarily to be perceived as either positive or negative, but changes nonetheless." I normally wouldn't try to undertand what it means, and just smile at it, but recent events has really caused some kind of change in me. I don't necessarily connect this with the synchronicity I mentioned, I may have misunderstood it, still it is interesting to me because I used to avoid talking about politics, thinking about what is going on in the world. Thinking that nothing can change the way the world is governed, I had very little interest in it. The only political thing that can be associated with me was the song "Imagine" by John Lennon, yes, I have always had a tendency to be "a dreamer" especially in that sense, but I acted like a typical escapist and stopped reading newspapers and watching the news years ago ( maybe I was exposed to less lies, but after all I wasn't informed enough about our Orwellian real world. Most of the time whenever something big happened, I would read or watch it in the news, and would feel sad and bad and that was all. Even when I found about this site I rarely read articles and threads about politics. I just had some idea about ponerology and knew well that the world is generally being and has been governed by psychopaths as the puppets of 4D STS and again that was all. Nearly a week ago, I started following what I didn't pay much attention in the past and I was ashamed of my indifference to many events that happened in the BBM although I've always supported peace and loathed all kinds of racial, religious, ethnic, cultural or gender discrimination and so on and adopted a humanist world view in the past. I know this reply is little to do with the movie, but I'd like to share.

I will write my impressions of the movie after I watch it. Thanks again.

 

[hnd]

My impressions about the film? What a boring,serious couple of words...`my impressions`..


I think this says it all:

Thank you very much,indeed.

 

[andi]

My impressions about the film? What a boring,serious couple of words...`my impressions`..


I think this says it all:

Thank you very much,indeed.

Hi hnd, I'm not really sure what you mean by that. What I understand from what you say is that - to give your impression on the movie would be just a boring series of words. Is that is? if not could you re-explain. ;)

In any way, if you have watched the movie, it would be nice if you could comment a bit about it for the benefit of others- just a suggestion.



I found the movie was very well filmed, very well constructed, everything is a masterpiece of cinematography. Other things are interesting as well... (Key words): Sufi, Turkish dances (I wan't say more about it), life and death, etc... Of course it helps to understand French, it would make the movie more enjoyable.

 

[hnd]

:) What is boring and serious is the expression itself: my impressions because my impressions,whatever,is not important. I hope it is clear now.

Certain things are beyond words and not easy to be described. It is in the heart, it isn't learned by reading.It is in the eyes and again beyond words.

So I said `This says it all: ` refering to the end of the film. It is poetry, but I don't mean verses of words by poetry and I don't think I can explain that.

And for the benefit of others,I can quote these from Rumi:

`Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged.`

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

“Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.”

And finally: “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”

 

[andi]

hnd, I understand better now, thanks. :)