A trailer played before the panel that showed Meyer and Timothy Simons Jonah Ryann character on the presidential campaign trail with absurdity close behind.
The irony is that although the entire system is constructed to prevent men and women finding khalwa, or privacy, together, it is permissible to be alone in a car with one's non-Saudi driver – the perfect confluence of racism and patronage that exposes the absurdity and confusion behind arbitrary laws of public female deportment in Saudi Arabia.
It's this absurdity, and the hubris behind it, that might end up being an effective tool against censorship and wrongful arrest.
If not completely nihilistic Korda expresses some sympathy for nonhuman animals—her worldview is bleak to the point of absurdity, and the philosophy behind it is a hodgepodge of strands of radical thought seemingly snatched at random.
If not completely nihilistic Korda expresses some sympathy for nonhuman animals—her worldview is bleak to the point of absurdity, and the philosophy behind it is a hodgepodge of strands of radical thought seemingly snatch at random.
Behind the surface absurdity, however, lie perfectly serious questions about the nature of commitment and society's tendency to view any form of radical dissent as a sign of madness.
His own time in jail, in 1961, was an absurdity; he spent several days behind bars for refusing to say who had told him that a "dastardly plot" discovered by the police to disrupt a public holiday had been a joke.
The line got a knowing laugh, not only for its absurdity, but also for the honest sentiment behind it.
This peek behind the scenes, revealing the absolute absurdity of the movie's conceit, only makes the near-magic of its final form all the more impressive.
For Lina Lazaar, curator of the Tunisian pavilion, the driving force behind the freesas project was to "highlight the absurdity of a global system where we are defined by the legal documents we have or don't have".
