Today I am in the mood to write about movies I watched in the last couple of days. And for this one, I spent almost 2 hours looking for a best variant, without getting block every two seconds. When you really want to see something NOW, quality is not at all what you'll get. But, anyway, I didn't regret.
The Infidel is presenting a case I encountered a couple of times, but with people belonging to a different belief. A moderate/not exclusively observant Muslim, Mahmud Nasir, is discovering while ordering the papers of its dead mother that he was adopted from a Jewish family. Opposite the house of his mother lives an American Jew he just had a conflict with, without knowing he is Jewish but understandable for him after seeing the Menorah at his window. At the end, he will become his best supporter in the unsuccessful journey to meet his family. His father will die the meeting is taking place, in a Jewish retirement and elderly care, not being allowed to see him by a strict "shomrim".
The discovery of his Jewish identity - the story about the identity is not extremely clear, as it is not either why the parents got to give him for adoption, as long as they were still living in the neighborhood -, in his late forties, with a son about to marry the daughter of an extremist cleric in London, is troubling completely his family, social and personal life and relations. To testify in the front of the public eyes - who don't have any doubt about the beginning of his double life - he is still a good Muslim, he is taking crazy steps, surprising even the most vocal radicals. And some of the events are laughable: while attending a Islamic gathering, before going with his Jewish friend to a bar mitzvah (the attendance was prepared lengthily, by infusing him a bunch of stereotypes about how to stereotypically be, behave and talk) - the kippa under the Muslim headwear - the first headwear fell down and the kippa is shinning in the sun. Desperately, he lit the kippa and jump on it several times, an episode carefully registered on camera. After, he run to attend the bar mitzvah. The next day, after his image was aired over and over again, a spontaneous protest is organized in the front of his house, while hosting the "precious" presence of the cleric for setting up the last details of the wedding. Shortly after he answered the question about the "clean" Muslim genealogy, faced with the protests and about to be hold by the police, he shout "I am Jewish". And, the family disaster follow up: the cleric cancel any contact and the wedding is drop out, the angry family leave him. But...this is not the end: after some research on the Internet, he reached the conclusion that, in fact, the cleric is a former pop singer, disappeared mysteriously a couple of years ago, and who, in fact, was a former Scientologist.
This is a happy ending: a Pakistani-Indian style wedding, enjoyed by all.
Can't stop laughing and laughing and laughing.
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