Young Ahmed

At first I want to establish a few things, first that I'm a Muslim person who live in an Islamic country which is Egypt, the second is that I like The Dardennes' cinematic language and I liked (Deux jours, une nuit) so much.

There is no actual plot, the movie is just going nowhere and doesn't follow the three acts structure. The movie is a character study movie but our main character is such a flat, unrealistic and caricature character. How can a kid be like that? How can a kid have this kind of thoughts? How can a kid have this cruelty? How can a kid have this insist on doing this kind of a violent act? It was a flat character who didn't change too much from the beginning to the end. The movie represents the idea of accepting people even if they tried to hurt you, but why did the Dardenne brothers put Muslims as the bad guys? Actually why are we treated as the bad guys from everyone? Bin-Laden? come on look at Hitler or Stallin. Whatever we are the stereotype of violence now so why do I whine.

The Dardenne brothers still have their cinematic tools like the long takes, shaky camera and not using a music. And like I said I liked it in (Deux jours, une nuit) But in this movie actually these tools made the movie slow paced and boring most of the time.

At the end I didn't like the movie at all, It wasn't entertaining and its ideas were biased.