Importance and Role of Rituals Depicted in Ali Zoua Film
Ali Zhou is a Moroccan Film which reflects the beliefs of the people that how they are sticking with their faith blindly based on their pre-conception. The conception is just fake idea but believed to be as reality. The film has been described as magical realism. It is magical in the sense that how does the stark reality of the children’s lives interweave with their rich fantasy life. The contrast between real life and fantasy life shows the strong part of their beliefs. In their feeling and practice they are very much different with each other. In this film Ali, Kwita, Omar and Baker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Ali wants to become a sailor - when he was living with his mother, a prostitute, he used to listen to a fairy tale about the sailor who discovered the miracle island with two suns. Instead of finding his island in the dream, Ali and his friends are confronted with Dip’s gang. Matters are getting serious; the three kids separated themselves from Dip’s gang. As a result, Ali Zoua killed by Dip’s gang when he was hit by a stone. Omar and Baker wanted to bury him as king but circumstances do not support them.
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