Comments on: Film review: MaRock

By: true

true — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:29:31 +0000

i like this movie… for one reason it depict life that many teenagers live in morocco… its time to admit that most of teenagers has gone through almost the same experience i mean a lot of girls have relation with either christian or men with no religion and after that movie may be jewish ..who knows

By: Hajar

Hajar — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 22:31:41 +0000

The accuracy of the movie in regard to its depiction of priviliged moroccan teengager’s life, is beyond a doubt, the closest thing to perfect; nonetheless, this movie would not have recieved HALF the attention it ended up recieving if it weren’t for the controversy that came out of this movie. The filming is rather amateurish, numerous scenes are plain useless (the ending, the filming of rhita’s house, yuri taking off his necklace while making out), and the relationship between Rhita and Mao is rather ambigious, to not say perverted, and I’m sure that wasn’t intentional. I believe that the director of this movie, Laila Marrakchi, depended on the media’s negative reviews to publicise her movie, rather than to inititiate the standard advertisement procedures which all producers complete. If the point of the ending was to make the audience aware of religious intolerance there exists in Morocco, then that’s an utter failure….the moral that came out from this movie, in my perspective, is either 1) don’t drink and drive, or 2) defying your parent’s authority and/or relgion can only harm you!

By: adilski

adilski — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:52:52 +0000

Saw the movie yesterday.It’s a teenage movie with no real depth.The movie doesnt speak for most of us Moroccans but I still can empathize.It feels like the movie is trying to paint a pink picture of a country that is ridden with poverty and illiteracy.While I didnt like the easy way out in the plot by killing one of the protagonists ,I liked the scene of Rita and her brother on the roof .It reflected the image of Rita coming to terms with her reality and her family.By finally succumbing to her brother’s arms she accepted her fate ,her situation,and her reality.

By: Rima

Rima — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:08:21 +0000

I loved that movie a lot, I am a moroccan girl who went to French school. It was noce that for once we are acknowledged as Moroccans.
However, this crazy life-otherwise known as teenagehood- is lived by many other types of Moroccans!!
Forever Morocco, may our country grow free and strong

By: Rad

Rad — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:10:23 +0000

I like the movie as whole but I didn’t like the Title Marock since it does not reflect the reality of the majority of the Moroccan Youth.

By: Issandr El Amrani

Issandr El Amrani — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 23:24:36 +0000

I dunno — she’s getting tons of attention in Morocco AND people will still pay to see it.

By: The Lounsbury

The Lounsbury — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 01:52:42 +0000

Ah, the director missed out on a marketing coup, getting banned would have been far cooler and useful.