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Mahdy who suffers from life complexes as most of Egyptians, Asked to wait for year 2000 as solution for all his problems. finds an ad confirming that the human can freeze himself and stay alive after return so he decides to freeze himself.

Back when the Egyptian cinema was allowed to dream !

Things that only happen in the refrigerator.

Plot Summary: In the year 1993, a young poor employee named (Mahdy) fails to marry his fiancée, or face his executives&#39; corruption. The government gives high hopes by declaring that everything will get better in the year 2000, hence (Mahdy) insists on freezing himself till 2000 in a big refrigerator. After the project goes wrong, and (Mahdy) dies, his soul meets other characters inside the refrigerator, where &quot;Love Can&#39;t Die&quot;, like the rooster of his neighbor (Khol&#39;y), who knew about (Khol&#39;y)&#39;s cheating wife. Then (Khol&#39;y) himself, who gets killed and cut off by his wife. However (Mahdy) becomes wrongfully accused of killing (Khol&#39;y), and the court gives him a death sentence! In the morgue&#39;s refrigerator, (Mahdy) meets so many people, as wronged and dead as him, and plans with them for a revolution. The security forces vanquish that revolution, and melt the dead people. (Maher Awad) is one of the craziest scriptwriters in the Egyptian cinema&#39;s history. He was born in 1952, studied cinema in the Egyptian cinema institute, and wrote some memorable movies in short time; such as (Alaqzam Kademon) or (The Dwarfs are Coming) in (1987), (El Daraga El Talta) or (The Third-Class) in (1988), (Sam&#39; Hoos) or (Silence Please) in (1991), and (Ya Mahalabia Ya) or (Oh, Mahalabia, Oh) in (1991). Through these movies, he presented so creative and so clever styles and atmospheres, which challenged boldly the common commercial movie, and its pretty old formulas. This is the debut of Sudanese director (Said Hamed). He studied cinema in the Egyptian cinema institute as well, and it&#39;s clear that he and (Awad) aspired after a unique taste which the Egyptian cinema maybe never had before. So they showcased the daily life frustrations of the ordinary Egyptian citizen, yet through sci-fi and black comedy, which were, and still are, extremely scarce genres in the Arabic cinema. The movie is funny and outlandish in the same time; and this is where its singularity shines. That wouldn&#39;t happen without a list of talents included: Star (Yehia El Fakhranni) as the lead character (watch well how his feelings of defeat transform into resistance). Editor (Sa&#39;ed El Shikh). Director of photography (Mohosen Ahmed). Art director (Mohmed Hamam). And, for sure, (Mody El-Emam) who wrote the movie&#39;s music. Add to them a cartoon artist, I know personally, named (Osama Abo Zeed), who was hired to draw a storyboard for the whole movie, which was - again - something unfamiliar in the Egyptian cinema (and actually still is!). On the other hand, the movie had some problems that led it to not &quot;clicking&quot; with the audience. The very low budget disappointed what could have been dazzling moments. The general pessimistic feel, and the unhappy ending, are there; which mostly means, in our cinema, turning into a flop in the box office. True that after 19 years, the frozen people did a revolution which defeated the injustice (in the January 25 Egyptian Revolution). And true that sometimes the sad ending generates enthusiasm more than the one generated by the happy ending. However, this movie didn&#39;t have much luck in its time. Additionally, it used elements which weren&#39;t close to the audience&#39;s taste and culture at that very time. For instance, in the 1990s start, zombies wasn&#39;t a popular subject at all in the Egyptian literature and cinema. So with low budget, melancholy and strangeness in the face of an exhausted, and not familiar with new experiments audience, the result wasn&#39;t a big hit. (Hob fi Eltalaga) or (Love in the Refrigerator) is a bitter satire in a form of sci-fi black comedy. Imaginative, dark, ironic and daring to include all of the above together. Well, according to the Egyptian cinema, you&#39;re allowed to do comedy, action, romance, musical, melodrama, but sci-fi?? And black comedy?? They&#39;re not genres, rather goners. And till now, 2016, it&#39;s not very frequent to dream a dream like (Love in the Refrigerator). This is what makes it a courageous experiment. And despite its problems, it&#39;s still fresh. PS: Although director (Said Hamed) did many hit comedies later, between 1997 to this day, but none of them had anything to do with sci-fi or black comedy!

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El-Hubb fi el-Thallagah

Mahdi is a citizen who suffers from the complexities of life, starting from his humble residence in a room on the roof of a luxurious building that does not have access to water, to his job struggles with his manager at work and a salary that is not enough for him, to the residents&#39; persecution of him, in addition to the intense hatred of his fiancée&#39;s family for his person. Everyone demands Mahdi. By patient. He is attracted to an advertisement that confirms that he can keep his body parts intact if he freezes himself, so he decides to freeze himself, until the year 2000. The charming presence of Yahya Al-Fakharani with Maher Awad in writing and Saeed Hamed in the direction. Make one of the greatest Egyptian Dark comedy movies.

Greatest Egyptian surreal movie ever. It&#39;s about (mahdy) a man who suffers from life complexes as most of Egyptians, and waits for year 2000 as solution for all his problems. Accidentally he finds an advertisement that affirms that the human can freeze himself and stay alive after return. He decided to try that for his love and his life and for his impatience to wait the year 2000.

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El-Hubb fi el-Thallagah

Back when the Egyptian cinema was allowed to dream !

Things that only happen in the refrigerator.

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