Interpreting Experiences Essay
“When I Saw You”, also known as “Lamma shoftak”, is an award-winning movie about a boy and his mother’s story of their life-changing journey. In my opinion, the two greatest themes of this movie are life is a journey and mother-and-son relationship, the latter of which I found most related to. It also has a situation that I can also relate to: a bad teacher. Despite its cliffhanger and open ending, “When I Saw You” is overall a great and enjoyable film, no doubt it won numerous awards after its debut in 2014.
The story tells of the year of 1967, tens of thousands of refugees go in mass numbers across the border from Palestine. Tarek and his mother, Ghaydaa, are among the latest of refugees living in temporary …show more content…
He finds the border and is heard counting numbers. The next scene shows Ghaydaa and Tarek looking at each other before running for the border. The screen that freezes when the two about to hit the border, the credits then roll, which perhaps leaves up the fate of the two characters to the audience. Besides I never like this kind of ending, I found it to be interesting. Perhaps the scene when he is counting the numbers, he is calculating the time to strike in order to deliver a surprise attack with some form of a weapon, which cannot be a rifle since it is heavy for a child and its intense noise and recoil. Due to this, I can think it is a bomb or grenade. The scene then shows mother and son gazing at each other, and they cameraman also kindly zooms in their respective eyes. The mother’s eyes seem…watering to me, showing that she is either proud or afraid that his son is becoming the same as his father. But the son’s eyes seem really sharp, meaning he is insisted that he will become a warfighter and nothing will change that. The last scene potentially tells us that whether the child’s choices are, the parents will always support and accompany them until the very
“When I Saw You”, also known as “Lamma shoftak”, is an award-winning movie about a boy and his mother’s story of their life-changing journey. In my opinion, the two greatest themes of this movie are life is a journey and mother-and-son relationship, the latter of which I found most related to. It also has a situation that I can also relate to: a bad teacher. Despite its cliffhanger and open ending, “When I Saw You” is overall a great and enjoyable film, no doubt it won numerous awards after its debut in 2014.
The story tells of the year of 1967, tens of thousands of refugees go in mass numbers across the border from Palestine. Tarek and his mother, Ghaydaa, are among the latest of refugees living in temporary …show more content…
He finds the border and is heard counting numbers. The next scene shows Ghaydaa and Tarek looking at each other before running for the border. The screen that freezes when the two about to hit the border, the credits then roll, which perhaps leaves up the fate of the two characters to the audience. Besides I never like this kind of ending, I found it to be interesting. Perhaps the scene when he is counting the numbers, he is calculating the time to strike in order to deliver a surprise attack with some form of a weapon, which cannot be a rifle since it is heavy for a child and its intense noise and recoil. Due to this, I can think it is a bomb or grenade. The scene then shows mother and son gazing at each other, and they cameraman also kindly zooms in their respective eyes. The mother’s eyes seem…watering to me, showing that she is either proud or afraid that his son is becoming the same as his father. But the son’s eyes seem really sharp, meaning he is insisted that he will become a warfighter and nothing will change that. The last scene potentially tells us that whether the child’s choices are, the parents will always support and accompany them until the very