Sunday, March 21, 2010

The Traitor




Review

Samir Horn (Don Cheadle) is an Arabic-speaking Sudanese-American and devout Muslim. His Sudanese Arab father was killed by a car bomb when he was a child. As an adult, Horn is first seen operating as an arms dealer. While negotiating a deal with Omar (Saïd Taghmaoui) in Yemen he is arrested and thrown into a Yemeni jail. Samir and Omar become friends in jail and when Omar's people arrange an escape, he takes Samir with them.

Joining the Islamic Brotherhood, Samir uses the skills he learned as an 18C engineer staff sergeant with the U.S. Army Special Forces to bomb the U.S. consulate in Nice, France. The group then devises a plot to place suicide bombers on 50 buses in the U.S. during Thanksgiving. Meanwhile, in London, the Islamic Brotherhood finds out Fareed is being targeted by the FBI and he escapes by a source in the FBI headquarters. It is revealed that Samir is working under deep cover for an intelligence contractor, Carter (Daniels), with the United States government against terrorism. The FBI agents pursuing him don't know this, and Carter is killed by Omar.

Meanwhile, FBI Special Agent Roy Clayton (Pearce) pursues Samir through numerous countries, resulting in their final confrontation in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. While on board a cargo ship to Marseilles, France, Samir learns the identity of Nathir and kills Nathir, Fareed, and when Omar is about to kill him, he tells that he switched the bombers' emails and he placed them all on the same bus and all of them die. Canadian police, with the FBI, breaks in and kills Omar and injures Samir.

Later, under a Chicago El bridge, Samir tells Agent Clayton he feels guilty for killing the innocent people in the consulate. Samir tells Clayton that the Qu'ran says that to kill an innocent person is to kill all mankind. Clayton responds by noting that the Qu'ran also says that by saving an innocent person, you have saved all mankind, and tells Samir he is a hero. The movie ends with Samir praying at a mosque.

(wikipedia source)

This film idea based on Steve Martin, also an executive producer.

Generally this film contain about difference view from west culture and middle east culture about Islam.

The Most Important scene in this film, when Samir tell to FBI Agent Roy Clayton that from The Qur'an

“that to kill an innocent person is to kill all mankind”.

and then Roy Clayton says that from The Qur'an :

“by saving an innocent person, you have saved all mankind”

at the end, FBI Agent say goodbye to Samir with "Assalamualaikum" “ and Samir say "you should start to use that word from now”.
“Assalamualaikum”.

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