Said and Nabil are friends. Said can't have children, and Dr. Nabil decides to help him by transplanting part of the brain of poor man Abdul Qawi to him, who suffers from severe fatigue after the operation, while Said is unable to have children despite the success of the operation.
Acting
Mahmoud Abdel Aziz commits to exhaustion like it's Shakespearean tragedy.
Writing
The absolute audacity of this medical premise. Unhinged.
Director
Ali Abdel-Khalek
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
1980s Egyptian cinema frequently used melodrama to critique class inequality; the brain transplant here literalizes the extraction of labor and health from the poor.
The Arabic title 'الوحوش تجري' ('Monsters Run') suggests the 'monsters' are the privileged friends, not any creature—Said and Nabil's entitlement is the horror.
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