Overall this is a very effective short but the non-German speaker shouldbewarned, the rapid-fire staccato dialogue moves very quickly and itsdifficult to keep up with the subtitled narrative while viewing theimages.

2) I originally had this movie playing in the background, but the versecaughtme, even though it was in German it was lyrical, and had such a presencethat it was absolutely captivating.

The film via german rap explores the changing concept of racism inmodernGermany. How it changes but in some ways remains ultimately the same. Hownow that black culture is being imulated by white culture they still inmanyrespects view them as a lesser citizen. It delivers a well thought outmessage that is very heartfelt. The cinematography is as well brilliantandstunning. Well worth the 13 minutes of film it was shot upon, if onlymorefilm was like this.

2) "Lady Genie", before anything else, is a fun movie. It’s sort of across between Gene Kelly and Bollywood. The acting is good, and thesinging and dancing are excellent. The plot is very silly indeed, and Ifound it extremely diverting, despite the flaws which I shall now list.

The first is not a flaw so much as a disclaimer: those not familiarwith the Arabic culture may be baffled for most of the duration. Thisis an Arabic movie made for an Arab audience, and there are noexplanations for outsiders.

Second: I have compared "Lady Genie" to a Gene Kelly movie, and thesimilarities are in that the music numbers are long and don’t furtherthe plot. Especially the finale with the demons and the girls in thecages — long and random.

Finally: it’s old, and cheap. The film quality in particular suffersfrom this.

But, as I said in the beginning, it’s a wild romp, quite funny andfeaturing some world-class belly-dancing.

Scenes of violence or colonial propaganda are thrown into the film withthe result being too jarring. Instead of feeling anything, you are justleft confused as to what happened.

The title is drawn from the well-known french song, but there is verylittle to connect to that song other than a brief moment in the filmand a vague theme of colonialism taking advantage of the colony. Sinceanyone watching this film would almost certainly be familiar with thebasics of colonialism, the film doesn’t really add anything to thediscussion.