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Djinn (2013)

Post by Ye Admin » Fri May 24, 2019 11:13 pm

The female Djinn in this movie is not the westernized, Disneyfied comical, mischevious creature which grants wishes, it's an evil, sadistic, shape-shifter which wipes out an entire village then years later murders five innocent people to get revenge on one human who didn't even know it existed.

The movies starts out informing the audience that (according to the Quran) angels are made of light, djinn are made of fire and humans made of mud. Later in the movie two Arab men tell an American that Allah created two creatures with free will: men and djinn. Apparently angels don't have free will. The Djinn were supposedly made first and apparently resent Allah handing the Earth over to humans when they had it first.

When not impersonating humans the Djinn, dressed in black, crawls around floors walls, ceilings like a giant black spider. That's when it chooses to be visible. Like angels, djinn are normally invisible. This particular djinn can also shut of car motors and jam cell phones. I guess it went to djinn enginering classes. It also creates illusions and a blinding fog. It spends most of the film tormenting a woman who didn't want to move back to the United Arab Emirates, from America, but was dragged back by her husband,. She has family there but didn't want to return to them.. He's not supposed to have family anywhere, being an orphan.

For most of the film the woman has no idea whats going on, apparently having forgotten the old stories about how the Djinn swap their babies for human babies, how they are shape-shifters and can possess humans.. The husband is two hours away at work, having "daymares" (Actually memories).

Don't expect a happy ending. There are no good djinn (or angels) coming to the rescue. And the woman's prayers to Allah go unheard. Though I think we're supposed to believe that's because she's a secularist who only prayed when she realized she was doomed. She admitted she hadn't prayed in years.

The dialogue is a mixture of English and Arabic with English subtitles.. Mostly English.

From Wikipedia:
Jay Weissberg at Variety said Djinn looked "outright bad" for a film by Hooper. The critic wrote, "This limp attempt at local horror takes elements from Rosemary's Baby, The Grudge, and others, thrown together into a cheesy, ham-fisted ghost story... Hooper's lack of engagement isn't helped by unimaginative f/x and leaden dialogue." Weissberg did not find the film scary due to its recycling of the elements and thought that characterization was nonexistent. He also said that Djinn was not redeemed by either its cinematography or editing.[9]

Ronan Doyle at Indiewire also panned the film, "From its very first frame, expounding exposition over a shoddily-shot desert sequence, this is an unmitigated disaster of a movie, every bit as horrible as the events it attempts to portray." Doyle wrote the film was a disappointment "tonally as well as technically". He found Tully's script to be "insistently uninventive" in reusing common horror elements. Doyle concluded, "Djinn represents, in the end, a fundamental failure to capitalize on the chance for a particularly culturally-rooted new breed of horror film."[10]

Marwa Hamad, reviewing for Gulf News, wrote that the film's use of djinns was a welcome change from traditional horror narratives. Hamad wrote, "The gimmicky nature of the film is undeniable, relying on the jump-in-your-seat sort of shockers rather than really messing with its viewers’ psyches ... But that doesn't mean that Djinn failed to break ground." Hamad commended the portrayal of the Westernized Arab couple, "The characters' crisis of nationality and lack of belonging underlies the entirety of the plot." She noted, "In that sense, the movie was able to resonate with—and subsequently instill terror into—a certain segment of viewers who usually benefit from feeling a sense of detachment from horror film victims who look and talk nothing like them."[11]

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Re: Djinn (2013)

Post by aeon » Sat May 25, 2019 12:21 pm

Djinn are smokeless fire so why are genies in bottles nothing but smoke?



Jinn have the power to travel large distances at extreme speeds and are thought to live in remote areas, mountains, seas, deep underground, and the air. Ancients traded with them and even married them. Sounds identical to faeries and dero.

Actually Jinn is correct and Djinn is the Romanized translation. They are not smokeless fire but later religious translations made them out to be formed from scorching fiery desert winds.

Jinn translates better as hidden or the good people. Again faeries who had magic and were feared.

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