ALEPPO | Omeleto
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 พ.ค. 2023
- A Syrian-American doctor suffers a brain injury, then can't recognize faces.
ALEPPO is used with permission from Anthony Grippa. Learn more at aleppothefilm.org.
Hanan is a Syrian-American doctor, living and working in New York at a hospital ER. But some time ago, she returned to Syria to help victims of war but found herself with a traumatic head injury after her ward was bombed.
Now she is face-blind, unable to recognize the faces of even those closest to her. Her condition confuses her and keeps her feeling isolated from her co-workers, friends and loved ones. Haunted by trauma and struggling to adjust, she must re-learn to navigate the world. But as this process gets more difficult, she must confront how much she and her life has changed, putting her identity and her future as a doctor in doubt.
Directed by Anthony Grippa from a script co-written by Morris Long and Brennan Elizabeth Peters, this powerful short drama depicts the Syrian war briefly, but the layered, nuanced narrative focuses more on the aftermath of conflict and how it lives within those affected by it. It is also an incisive portrait of someone grappling with the scary, often overwhelming effects of head trauma, offering an intimate immersion into how it keeps its sufferers isolated, uncertain and unconfident in themselves.
The scale of the narrative is ambitious in many ways for a short, toggling between Hanan's time in Syria as a doctor to her present-day working at a hospital in New York. Structurally, the writing creates a bit of a puzzle box at first, establishing Hanan's current post-traumatic state of isolation as we observe her face-blindness's effect on her relationships with others but flashing back to her time in Syria at intervals. Hanan emerges as a dedicated doctor, passionate about helping others and incredibly good at doing her job, even in the most challenging of circumstances.
But the hospital bombing is a turning point for Hanan, and it's rendered in the film with a visceral, startling power that allows us to understand the harrowing confusion and trauma of being seriously injured during war, when everything is falling apart and there is no sense of safety anywhere. Hanan carries both the effects of her injury and the deeper psychological trauma into her post-war life, conveyed with a clear but moody visual melancholy that evokes her loneliness and depression.
As Hanan, actor Laetitia Eido conveys Hanan's essential strength and intelligence, but also a piercing vulnerability when that strength falters. Hanan attempts to power through and stay strong as she's always done -- but that approach isn't working anymore. Facing the possibility that she might leave her profession, Hanan must confront her memories and her truth to move forward. In doing so, ALEPPO also honors the doctors and medical personnel who confront the direct costs of armed conflict, as well as anyone finding their way back to their selves and callings after life-altering injuries. - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
So so powerful. Extremely transporting. I feel as though I just watched a feature length film. Congratulations to all involved in the making of this. May it raise much awareness. War is an awful tragedy from beginning to end. 😢
Incredible film showing a sad reality! I think in the end she was reassured that she is still capable of doing her job and save lives.
I was glad of the ending aswell seeing her save that guy , she's a dedicated doctor. But she needs support for her PTSD that she's suffering with.
Such an emotional journey for me watching this. After suffering a brain injury an ptsd it really touched home. So well made.
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I wonder if she ever got help for her PTSD , she went through such a traumatic experience. I liked that she managed to save the guy at the end, doctors must feel such a sense of relief when their methods actually work and save a life.
A meaningful and profound portrayal of the sufferings of war. We should not forget its message.
quite a great story! Showed her in the end she can save peoples lives!
Beautiful in term of production and storytelling
Deeply touching....those are the real heroes nowadays. Respect.
100%
This is brutally dispiriting, but a very well-made piece.
Thank you for this! Here, we are so insulated from the horrors and trauma of war. You help us comprehend it. Maybe a few will be moved enough to do something. There is so much to be done and ways we can contribute.
I actually broke a sweat watching that.
What a world it could be if people weren't flying around starting trouble in other people's countries for their own material gain.
What a world it could be if those people in other countries who get drawn into this stuff were to stop being drawn into it.
These are thought I'm left with after watching the film. But wow, that protagonist was played so beautifully by Laetitia Eido. The archetypal heroine of our times to be sure. Her trauma, the way they affect her day to day, her struggle with those monstrous memories and the near ecstasy of her success with the inexperienced medical worker in Syria so exquisitely painted on her face as she rides the train the next day.
That's to say nothing of the photography that confused people with one another with her, stoked my own sense of loneliness when she tried to take a photo of her scarred face for a dating profile before somebody saw her, got me lost in her own place of work with her. I really felt a profound sense of urgency with her during the tenser moments. And that soundtrack was nothing to sniff at, either.
Awesome. Man, I love Omeleto.
Thank you for bringing this medical condition to light. Actor Brad Pitt has prosopagnosia (facial recognition blindness); it's a cognitive disorder: 1 in 33 Americans (3.08%=10 million) are affected. It's caused by brain injury such as head trauma, stroke, autism, encephalitis, brain tumors. In some severe cases, they are unable to recognize their own faces. Relatively mild cases are limited to facial recognition; more serious cases extend the recognition to other objest of everyday life. The result of this often leads to social isolation & depression.
Well, if Pitt has prosopagnosia, then he must have a mild case of it. Like almost all conditions, there are different degrees.
In this short movie here, they're portraying her as having a 100% extreme case of it. There's no way Pitt could have pulled off the
incredible career he's had, if he had a severe case.
@@robertjensen1048 I have a mild case of prosopagnosia. It can be a little awkward sometimes. In the Army we all had name tags on our uniforms which made it a lot easier. After a while faces would register even when out of uniform but it took time and frequent contact. It was more of a mild annoyance than anything.
I was literally shaking while watching the end
Powerful. Shocking. Sad.
This really is the start of my week. ❤ Thank you
You did so great on capturing this together, it's amazing. 10/10
War is terrible!
Very powerful film 📼. War of Trauma changes everyone though. But it changes her in a good way.
Astounding acting.
Whether her condition improved or not, she felt positive.
I'm hoping her condition improves, but war trauma that severe takes time. I don't think she'll ever truly get over the horrors that she's witnessed.
Humans will never learn from the horror of war.
Anyone that hasn't seen the film "The Cave", go find it now. Same situation, but real footage of an underground hospital trying to survive relentless attacks.
I hope that wasn't a "White Helmet" at 15.45. UK sponsored head-choppers. Apart from that, fine drama. My father had untreated PTSD.
Amazing 🙌🏾🙌🏾
how does this have so few views?? It is so moving.
As far as the film edit the topic
of its information
happens to be one of
the best films
I have seen
in a long time
due to to the seriousness
of the set of
circumstances provided.
The Syrian War setup;
NATO/ United States and its allies for the destruction of a country that was certainly deserved not
to be harassed in such a way.
This is just another reason the globalists are despicable in each and every way.
This doctor is a heroine
in everyway possible.
Amazing film.
Serious topic.
War is hell.
Ptsd is a serious situation.
Sooooo, there's a huge medical inaccuracy in here. One, you don't use a AED to shock some guy who's conscious and has low blood pressure.
Doesn't work that way. An AED needs to have the heart in what is called a "shockable rhythm", which means that the heart is either not beating, or is beating in such an erratic way that the shock would correct the rhythm. Also, if a guy's heart was doing so badly that an AED was needed, then he sure as heck wouldn't be strong or concious enough to react so strongly when someone put a needle in his chest.
She must train herself to recognize voices at least.
Please correct me if wrong
The lead actress worked in FAUDA
FILM WAS SHORT YET VIVID
HARD HITTING AS ALWAYS
LOL, is she from Fauda? I'm almost sure she is!!!!
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Not the Syrian dialect though, as a native
Very sad yet powerful. However, when they were walking in the hallway code blue was at 1:20 pm if I can see correctly from the clock on the wall, but the patient was pronounced dead at 4:08 pm... was she looking for the right room this whole time? Or they just overlooked a mistake?
For me its names & some nouns
Both Ukrainians and residents of Aleppo both understand the brutality, the indiscriminate destruction of a Russian assault on populated areas.
It is the americans fault!
thanks to the US 20yr+ war on terror to destabilize and destroy mideast/west asia for establishing greater Israel, or else this episode wouldn't have been relevant
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