Yacoubian Building - Update

Okay, I saw the movie last night with subtitles, so that I have a much better idea of what happened. I still like it, and it's still very much worth seeing! Mona's cousin insisted that Mona make sure I understand that "Egypt is nothing like this," but Mona says Egypt is actually EXACTLY like this ... there's an especially resonant scene where the once-great playboy pasha is ranting about how Egypt used to be modern and liberal and hopping - fashions emerged in Cairo before Paris - and from stories that Mona has heard from her family, that is exactly how things used to be. And the prison scene is pretty much exactly what I read about at work, so that's certainly (and unfortunately) accurate.

Oh, and Parliament hasn't succeeded yet in cutting out the homosexual storyline, but Cairo audiences are still laughing at it, so I doubt it will have any great corrupting influence ...