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Djinn (2013) - an Arabic horror movie #1187063
05/24/19 11:49 PM
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Djinn (2013)

A year after their infant child dies a couple Khalid (eternal) and Salama (peace) returns to United Arab Emirates, against the wishes of the woman, who preferred living in America. They move into a brand new hotel, because the husband works for the company which build it. The hotel was built over the top of a fishing village, said to have wipped out by evil Djinn (genies). The western, Disneyfied version of Djinn are usally comical, and mischievousness not evil. Not so in Arabic mythology. After all according to the Quran, Shaytan (Satan) is a Djinn.

The film is English and Arabic (with English subitles).

Interesting to see a movie based on Arabic legend of the genies. rather than the sanitized westernized versions. These djinn behave like demons or evil ghosts. They are shape sifters and can posse humans. And manipulate the weather . They can also apparently jam cell phones and shut down automobile engines.

The movie ending was telegraphed from the start:
Khalid' is actually the son of a human male and a female djinn. When he was an infant his mother killed a human baby and put him in its crib, when the humans realized what had happened, they had a spell cast on the baby to suppress its Djinn half so the boy would never know what he was, they then shipped it off to America thinking that he would be save from the Djinn, but she searched for him all his life. The Djinn wants her son back and she despises his wife because she killed their son, her grandson, realizing it was inhuman, it was 1/4 Djinn and apparently it showed, Too bad she didn't figure out why it was inhuman. Even though the Djinn murdered 5 innocent people starting with the original human baby, and including Salama's parents and sister, it taunts Khalid and Salama with "murder is a sin!" so apparently Djinn try to rationalize their behavior too. The movie does not end well. Khalid discovering he's half Djinn turns totally evil, curses Allah and murders his wife. The ending is actually pretty week. Through the whole movie the couple seems to have completely forgotten the stories about Djinn, but we are supposed to believe Salama killed her son a year before because she realized it was inhuman but never thought about why. In fact she didn't really understand what was happening until it was far too late. Ironically the baby Salama killed which angered the Djinn only came to exist because when the first human couple found a half djinn babby had replaced their human baby they had more compasion than the cold hearted djinn and did not kill the baby for its mother's sin. Had they killed baby because it was half djinn Salama would not have met him decades later, married him and killed his inhuman son out of fear.

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Re: Djinn (2013) - an Arabic horror movie [Re: GuybrushThreepwood] #1187246
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