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questions/plotholes

posted 15 years ago by aghm
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1) I'm assuming that when Salma first tells her mother about the man that she is seeing, Lilia realizes that it must be Chokri, because he was the only man at dance practice. However, Chokri does not know from the start that she is the mother of his gf. (am I correct?) Anyway, my confusion lies in the fact that Lilia goes to Chokri's appartment to surprise him AFTER her daughter had told her about the man she is seeing from dance practice. Why would the mother continue her relationship with the man knowing that he's involved with her daughter?? Or did she not make the link?
2) at the end of the movie, during the wedding, does her daughter know that her mother is/was a belly-dancer? I mean she invited all her belly-dancing friends and they Lilia especially seemed to be performing at the wedding! And do you think that the mother continued with her nightjob?
Thanks in advance!
PS.what did you all think of the charcter Chokri?

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[–] bipbeepboop 11 years ago

pretty late answer but anyways... here's my theory

I think the mother knew about Chokri from the time at the dance practice (catching the glances between the two) or at the LATEST when she noticed him from her window and then followed him on the streets. That's how she got into the cabaret in the first place: by following the man whom she knew was seeing her daughter. When she stepped into the cabaret the first time, she thought her daughter would be there because when she had called there was music in the background; knowing her boyfriend was working at the cabaret, where music is played, she assumed her daughter was there. That also explains why she refuses/hesitates to get involved with him in the first place, and when he first approached her in the dressing room, she stops him from touching her and asks him (in a manner that shows she knows the answer) if he has a girl, if he loves her...

Why did she still persist? maybe because her life was blend and colorless, and her desire to feel young again, feel like her daughter feels, most of all feel desirable. Maybe inside her, unconsciously she is getting back at her daughter for her ungratefulness (remember the daughter constantly rejects everything that comes from her mom, as if it's not good enough, first the meals she doesn't eat but her mother prepared for her, then the shirt she had knitted...)

At the wedding, I think her daughter still doesn't have any clue what's going on. And the mother could have a perfect explanation for the presence of her belly-dancing friends: either it's because they work at the groom's workplace, either it's because now the mother is sewing their costumes (like the lie that was told to the mother's friend when the belly dancer unexpectedly came for a visit and met the mother's uptight friend).

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