User:Thelonelybunny/Qalam Hamra (series)

Qalam Homra (a "lipstick" in english) or Rouge is a Syrian social drama series written by Yam Mashhadi and directed by Hatem Ali. It stars Sulafa Memar as a screenwriter named bediah who was arrested by the Syrian regime and tells us the story of her caracters in the show from the cell.

The series presents a panoramic view of the events of the last five years and their repercussions on Syrian society. It focuses on the middle class before and during the outbreak of the crisis, and the situation it has reached after the current terrible events, depicting the aspirations and dreams of this class, and the bank that some of its families have reached in these difficult circumstances that shape their lives.

Plot
The series starring Sulafa Memar as (Ward), a screenwriter who lives in the Syrian capital, Damascus, and ends up in a political prison; This leads to her life being affected in all aspects.

The writer Yum Mashhadi, by writing the script of “Qalam Humra”, presented a drama with a deep impact on the conscience, touching the events that the Syrians have experienced in recent years, and playing on small details of humanitarian cases from all spectrums of society during the war. She talked about old issues, crazy changes that occurred suddenly in life, and about the unprecedented crack and collapse of the educated middle class life. The writer touched on topics professionally and boldly, such as: “homosexuality, frustration, unemployment, the boredom of marriage, interfaith marriage, identity, citizenship, sexual violence and torture against political prisoners and the issue of asylum”.

As for the title of the drama, it is a metaphorical expression of the masks that people always put on, their passion to be like such masks, perhaps because of our strong desire to be the person we love with a philosophical depth that was posed through the questions and answers of the heroes of this series, and in a simple form as a call to aspiring minds to think more deeply and reflectively to come up with answers and logical perceptions of the step-by-step sequence of events.

Sulafa Memar excelled in embodying and performing a superimposed character. As a screenwriter, many questions revolve in her mind and is always searching for the missing link, as she ends up in a dungeon that took a large part of her life and her thinking, leaving us in a sea of ​​deep questions that are still revolving in our minds with no answers. Among these questions is the topic of “the identity and the self.”

https://www.ramimaki.com/qalam-humra-series-a-lipstick/