Underdeveloped Is Not About Civilization Analysis

Youssef Chahine: Underdeveloped is not about Civilization
“I am the third world! No you are” Youssef Chahine answers Mark Cousins about the Arab World Society, and then he continues “Jesus Christ have been around for 7000 years and we have proven that we are civilized. Yes, we are under developed but that is not civilization, civilization is how you contact other people and you know how to care. In Egypt, if you go to a poor man who doesn’t have anything to eat, he will borrow a loaf of bread and offer it to you, while in Europe you may faint and drop dead in the street and the people will just walk away from you and they don’t give a shit. So we have to know what the world civilization means and then we could say first world and third world,
He adds: “Economically it is really bad and the authority is always very violent so I decided I will buy some very hard sticks preferably in iron and give them as a gift to the university students who just go out with nothing so they get beaten each time, you have to say no to somebody otherwise they become big headed and they become demigods like kazafi or our own people.” Eden, O. (2013) Underdeveloped does not mean third world, Savage means third world. If the economical situation is bad, Society is starving, Authority is violent, sociological factors manifest in revolution, Smart directors like Chahine was able to foresee the result and highlight it through his
It is noticed that the revolution and the Arab Spring creates the contemporary Arab film. The war and revolution and tragedies are the new realities in the contemporary Arab filmmaking and it shows through the characters or the plots. Simple techniques are used; in Tunis for instance they can shoot with their devices just to highlight some issues that were restrained earlier by the government. The filmmakers became braver speaking out loud of what they are foreseeing in their societies. It was a big challenge for the directors not to be biased in their opinion while transmitting their messages through their films. In Yemen, some families over passed conservative traditions like “The Mulberry House” the film by Sara IshaQ where the director was able to shoot with a camera live in the family’s house broadcasting their private life to the outside. The revolution reflects as well on the education of the people, people starts to want to know more about the international politics to understand further their situation and to be able to foresee their future. The contemporary Arab film speaks more in the language and western techniques because directors were able to convince people from the society that it is better for the Arabs to benefit of what we have rather than the