Very Inspiring.

The Square is a very inspiring documentary which follows few people as they participate in a revolution against 30 years dictatorship in Egypt, filmed mostly by small digital cameras used by the director herself (Jehane Noujaim), this movie said 'fuck stock footage', as it relies entirely on recordings from the grounds.

The Egyptian revolution is very enormous, and one of the biggest in history, but it mainly consists of three significant parts, one Against 30 years Dictatorship (against Mubarak who ruled Egypt from 1981 to 2011), two Against Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Against Mohamed Hussein Tantawi), three Against Muslim Brotherhood (against Mohamed Morsi), so this movie starts at the second part, right after Mubarak stepped down from the presidential office, which means the movie lacked two weeks from the main revolution which started in 25-Jan-2011.

The very best part of this movie is that it was able to combine all aspects of Egyptian society in one group, you have Muslims, Christians, Lower, upper and working class citizens, a foreigner, a political activist, a member from the Muslim Brotherhood, so this managed to give you an access to the ideology of those people, while it focused mostly on Ahmed, a lower class citizen, an uneducated person who worked his whole life in the streets, it showed you that all those parts of society have one thing in-common, which is the ability to rise together against their regime, risking their life for a good cause.

When the armed force took over the country, it didn't do anything beneficial, they removed Mubarak from the office, and kept the same corrupted government in the same places, furthermore, they asked people to go home because their demands are now being taking care off, and when some citizens refused to leave the square, they violently removed and arrested too many of them, so the revolution starts rising again, this time they felt betrayed by the armed forces because they lied to them, the Muslim Brotherhood participated for the first time in the revolution, but they did it for themselves, for political gains, and an election came about, which is probably the most inappropriate one because people had no idea who to elect, Morsi (From the Muslim Brotherhood) or Ahmed Shafik which came from the same previous corrupted government, Morsi won the election, right after he took over the presidential office, he started changing the constitution, he gave himself access to many thing, even Mubarak had no access to, so in 30-June-2013, a massive revolution starts again, against Morsi until they removed him from the office.

Although, this documentary starts two weeks after the 'jan-2011' to the end of the revolution 'june-2013', which is almost two years, i still think that the first two weeks were very valid to make this documentary a masterpiece, but it was very impressive work nonetheless, it managed to showcase that the Egyptian are very courageous, very inspirational people, it managed to showcase the different aspects of society, it managed to show friendship, specially between Ahmed and Magdy, even though they have different ideologies, they still defended each-other and stood for one-another.

What i always loved about Egyptians is that they are aware of their culture, and they aren't blinded by ignorance, people who lived under the same corrupted regime for 30 years still have the courage to change, even if it means risking everything they have, even the most lower class people shows you hope, which is something i don't see coming from a country who lived pretty much the same situations, i just wish that Iraqi people would have 10 percent of the courage that Egyptians have, although they have too many parties involved, one that benefit from corruption and ones that don't, they stood together to achieve the real democracy, something i wish to see someday happening here in my country, so lets just hope........

7/10