Le Grand Voyage

Although it was a familiar plot (two people who don't get along are forced together by fate) this film was interesting because of the view into what, for me, is an unfamiliar world. However, that propelled the film just so far, and the ending seemed to indicate that the filmmakers had intended something else entirely rather than what I got out of it. Specifically, I saw a father who selfishly looked after his own godliness as though it began and ended with himself and who, to me, if he truly believed, had fallen down on the job by stranding his teenaged son outside the bounds of that religion (i.e. the son doesn't speak Arabic). The ending suggested that the son, who was meant to be about 17, I suppose, should stop being stubborn and see the value in being a Muslim, and emulate the father, who was considered an exemplary man.

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