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Salon Huda (2021)
Impressive and compelling film
This was based on a true situation where isreali secret service used to infiltrate salons in the west bank, use the owners to drug women and take nude and suggestive photos of them for blackmail. Because of this, there are very few salons in the west bank out of fear of that women would be targeted in such ways.
This movie shows how one woman, Reem, is forced into this situation and has to make hard decisions of have to save herself and her daughter. She doesn't know who to trust because everyone seems to have an agenda of their own.
We feel for Reem as she struggles to find a way to get out of the hands of the secret service and stay hidden from the resistance who don't know how innocent she really is. Her situation leaves us wondering what we would do if we were backed into a corner in the same way she was.
The movie shows how far the isreali government would go to oppress a population such as resorting to blackmailing innocent people who have nothing to do with the resistance and just want to live a regular life. We see the struggles the Palestinians in the west bank have to go through to deal with such situations, and how to protect themselves and their families.
I highly recommend this film and many others from Hany Abu-Assad. His work really shows you what life under occupation is like and the struggle for freedom.