aside from the technical issue of directing and the movie be a total failure and those who do not read the novel have see nothing . waheed ham lame adaptation ruin the whole spirit of the book and the line be more of a nadia el gendy or nabeela edeid film . the whole scene be suppose to be set in the early 90 and yet nothing in the custom or the event can be of the 90 . special line and scene be add for zaky el dessouki ( adel emam ) only because he a famous comedian and the audience would like him to throw a joke every now and then although it totally unnecessary and taha ( mohamed emam ) clothes be not of his social class in anyway . the amazing spirit of neutrality that one can find in the novel have be brutally destroy in the movie where you can take side easily . the soundtrack be nonsense and people in theatre be laugh most of the time specially in the gay love scene a the proper music for the moment be lose . all i can think of be that those old guy desperately try to seize the moment and have their share of the new egyptian film industry cake that the young actor build over the past 8 year or so . guess i be obviously bias and but that how i see it .