DOCS AGAINST GRAVITY
FALLEN FLOWERS THICK LEAVES
Watchable. About Chinese women discovering their sexuality. In more communist times in China all individualism was forbidden, including caring for one's own sexual pleasure. Now, whether young or old women, they have to learn it. There's little about their relationships here, though it strikes how rational the choices are for both parties each time. The camera just follows the ladies. Not much background is given.
TAHQIQ FEL DJENNA (INVESTIGATING PARADISE)
Watchable. With some humour it shows how the 72 houris awaiting men in paradise, which are mentioned neither in the Quran nor the Sunna, are used to dupe men into submission to tyranny. I personally most liked the male feminist who observed that there's no freedom without women's rights. If women are expected to be submissive, there's no freedom in the society as well. The overlong documentary leaves the viewer with a rumour that the Wahhabis got it wrong: "There are no 72 houris. There's one. She's 72."
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