Garry Johal (onefinalhit)

What seems irrational and insane at the beginning seems so logical at the end of the film.
I loved this film. I especially like how the film is subtle. We are shown squalor, sexism, intolerance but we are never lectured.
We're shown a poor man's mundane repetitive existence, but it is never cliched.
What you see is a man trudging through his life, expressionless, both frustrating and fascinating the viewer. You can never tell what he's thinking. But that's the strength of this movie. You observe Hussein, much like he seems to be observing his own life and you see the subtle contrasts between his poverty and the life of luxury that seems so unattainable.
In the ending scene he finally gets animated. He curses and spits in his own restrained way. After following him on his journey, you completely understand why.
It was great that the director got an actual pizza deliveryman to play a pizza deliveryman. Like the hero in Bicycle Thieves, the non-professional added so much to the character that cannot be seen so much as felt.