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The Ruins
2021·Movie
·15min·
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A drawing of an ancient bathhouse in a French travel book to the Middle East sparks a visual poem, inspired by the Arab poetry tradition of "standing by the ruins". The ambivalence of the five-hundred-year-old image gestures towards enduring capitalist and colonial power dynamics. Pleasure and pain, seduction and domination, archives and ruins, histories of sex, and histories of empire, all commingle in this essay film. What transpires is a web of visible and invisible threads where homosexuality in the Middle East today seems to be enmeshe
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Is The Ruins worth watching?
76
GreatGoodWatch scoreMostly. It's well received, with a GoodWatch score of 76/100. The GoodWatch score combines critic and audience ratings.
How long is The Ruins?
0 h 15 min
The Ruins runs 0 h 15 min.
What language is The Ruins in?
EnglishArabic
It was made in English, with some Arabic. Produced in Lebanon, United States.
What tropes does The Ruins use?
The End... Or Is It?Quarantine with Extreme PrejudicePatience PlotThe Savage SouthEstablishing Character MomentSex in a Shared RoomToo Dumb to LivePoor Communication KillsSchmuck BaitVine TentaclesAmbiguous SituationIt Can Thinkand 33 more
TV Tropes lists 45 storytelling tropes for The Ruins, including The End... Or Is It?, Quarantine with Extreme Prejudice, Patience Plot.