Friday, December 4, 2009

Allegorical confusion in Shame

So in Shame Pakistan is Peccavistan. But Omar Khayyam Shakil is also Pakistan. And he is shamelessness. And a fat degenerate pervert. Rejected by Iskander Harappa, he ends up in Hyder's miltary family, married to the embodiment of shame, Sufiya Zinobia.

Raza Hyder wrestles his soldiers to boost their confidence, when he should be tending to his daughter, the embodiment of shame.

In the end, when Omar and Sufiya meet, it is the meeting of shame and shamelessness, like the annihilation of matter and anti-matter. But Omar is also Pakistan-- is he the shamelessness of the nation? but everyone else is shameless too, everyone but Sufiya...

I was onto something, sometime, but now I'm just confused.

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