Nothing is Everything: Eldin’s Continuing Exploration of Existential Crisis
For his sophomore film Yunan, intended as the second chapter in a thematic trilogy following 2021’s The Stranger, director Ameer Fakher Eldin presents a parable within a parable as a disillusioned writer contemplates suicide. The milk of human kindness, and what appears to be a metaphorically biblical flood, reinvigorates his zest for life. Aided by accepting an epiphany, which basically regards the reality we are all destined to die and be forgotten (which Nirvana might have stated more eloquently as ‘all in all is all we are’), we follow him on his journey towards a peaceful reckoning to enjoy the present.… Read the rest
