By Omnia Talal
The writer of an Egyptian film produced to expose the struggles and oppression that women face in society believes a woman’s main job is to raise her children.
Written by Kareem Fahmy, “Hatooly Ragel” (Bring Me A Man), which made the third highest numbers this season, switches the role of women and men in society.
In an exclusive interview with Aswat Masriya, Fahmy said that he wrote the film so that men would put themselves in the shoes of women who are faced with sexual harassment, oppression and violence, in hopes that they would reflect on their behavior.
He held women to blame for most of what they are facing though.
“I believe that a woman’s main job is to raise her children to set the grounds for society, but that does not mean that she has more rights than men,” fahmy said.
He added that women are the ones who raise the sexual harassers and others and therefore must dedicate themselves to raising their children well for a better society.
Fahmy does not believe that women qualify for the post of president because he believes they would make decisions based on their emotions, but added that they have the right to work and are sometimes forced to help their husbands, etc.
The film displays the story of three men and the problems that they face in the feminist society where the man is viewed as a sexual object as opposed to a person.
Fahmy added that the end of the film serves the women’s cause because it shows that everything goes back to normal – to the patriarchal society – but with understanding between men and women.
The film, which took three years in the making, has been a great success with many critics describing it as the best this season and praising it for tacking the issue in a new light.
Film critic Osama Abdel Fattah did not agree though, “This type of films seems as if they criticize patriarchal society but in fact they endorse it instead of exposes it.”
“Men and women are suffering from oppression and injustice in society,” he added.
He explained that at the end of the film the man returns in control without offering any solutions for the crisis and blamed patriarchal society on the failure of the state to apply equality.
A recent Thomson Reuters Foundation poll showed that Egypt is the worst Arab country for women due to the high rate of sexual harassment and female genital mutilation and the rise of violence and Islamism.
This content is from : Aswat Masriya