For extra credit for French class we watched a movie called “Monsieur Ibrahim” about a Jewish boy in Paris whose father deserts him and commits suicide by lying under a train. The father had always wanted him to be like his older brother, who you later find out never existed; ‘he’ was a means of controlling the boy. After the father leaves, the boy, Moses, sells his father’s expensive books in his office so that he can frequent the brothel across the street. I thougth it was interesting that he sold books for sex. He also changes his name to Mohammed when his mother finds him, a rejection of the maternal and a rejection of his religion.
October 28th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
posted by me, Sarah Banschbach