blunt political innuendo

The Hilton incident on the Nile River is a corruption problem caused by political and business collusion caused by the murder of a high-level prostitute, and alludes to the background of the fall of Mubarak in Egypt. This should be a kind of political correctness and a "main theme" in the Western film circle. But it is often naive to try to summarize political issues by zooming in on the insinuation from one point.

As far as this film is concerned, this innuendo is very blunt. The case took place in January 2011, and Mubarak announced his resignation in February. Demonstrations are interspersed bluntly in the background, and it directly shows the scene where the police station was instructed by the superior to shoot the demonstrators. The demonstration ended with Mubarak's colossus painted to show his downfall. Combined with the political and business corruption content of the case, this is the "just" reason for Mubarak's downfall. Such abrupt conclusions and logic that lacks real thinking are of little value.

As for the film itself, there is not much to say. Many details of the case are conventional conspiracy tactics, and the explanation is relatively obscure, as if to guide the audience to analyze, but the conclusion is too obvious. Although I haven't been to Egypt, I have also seen comments that many shooting locations should actually be in Morocco, and there are some cross-cutting shots. Add in a group of Swedish, Danish, French, Germans, and the Sundance Film Festival in the United States, and you should understand that this is just a prop for the West to interpret or publicize Egypt's politics and society according to its own wishes.

The movie background should be viewed from outside the background. The political situation in Egypt has always been relatively chaotic. Every president is full of controversy, and the outcome is mostly not good. The beginning of colonial rule, and then the military and political revolution to overthrow the monarchy and the colonists, the climate has always been the military and political become the real center of power in Egypt. Egypt has always been at the center of the Arab world, and has repeatedly lost or returned to the Arab world with Israel. The competition for the old colonial powers in the West has never stopped. The biggest factor is the strategic location of the Suez Canal. So secular and Islamic, colonial and anti-colonial, Eastern and Western geopolitics and democratization forces are intertwined here. Although Mubarak stepped down, he was also sentenced for corruption. But his successor Morsi, as the only so-called elected president without military background (Muslim Brotherhood), has a profound American education and life background and has two sons born in the United States. He came to power under the banner of opposing Mubarak's corruption and suppression of massacres, but he also stepped down for the same reason. More deep-seated problems in society have not been resolved. Is it naive just to see the problem of corruption? Most of the "Arab Spring" turned into a catastrophic "Arab Winter". The current Egyptian president is still from a military background. In addition, Mubarak was also acquitted.