The Exam (2021)
9/10
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3 December 2023
This is an interesting movie making the spectators think and posing probably the right questions for the close but also distant - to the Western world - Kurdish community in the Middle East as well as for universal human values.

Is it fine to fight the family, parent, community traditions and rules? How far can we reach in our rebel against these traditions and rules? Is it possible to build up love instead of hate? Can we invest so much in hatred so we can ruin our and others' lives? Is the education an obstacle to a marriage? In other words - will a marriage not need educated people? How much it is easier to learn to hate instead of learning to love (even in an arranged marriage)?

How much personal freedoms may contradict to the community and family traditions? Which is better - to indulge in individual or community rights and obligations?

And more... How to develop a society full of injustice and, respectively, full of corruption? Can the control and supervision ensure justice? Can the education make a real difference in the social standing of the people?

...At the end, was it a university entry "exam" or it was a judgemental exam in front of ourselves?...

Congratulations for the casting and also for at least some of the frames in the cinematography.

A movie which worths a recommendation!
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