DIFF 2010 - September Rain

In essence the story is that of a veteran musician who is surviving in current Syria in the middle of all cultural, social and class divides, ( as is true with any city in the world), and is surviving on his talent passed on - that is - 4 sons who play music at a restaurant and a fruit selling business.
What one fails to understand is that what compels the director to express through such a laxed screenplay. At one point you may think the slow cold pace of the movie showcases the mood, nostalgia or metaphoric thought that the film so desperately tries to invoke. Ofcourse that starkly opposes the vivid and warm storyline that the protagonist pursues and you soon realise your interest is losing out due to the heavily crippled sense of pace !
Too many unneccesary bends in the storyline / screenplay, ( one cant tell which without submitting to being judgemental), surreal interludes and back and forth jumps in no apparent pattern. The film begins to lose its sense of continuum and logic and moves to the point where we ask ourselves why the 'son's' feet bleed instead of his heart, why all the loves of the story depart at the same time and in no charming pattern either that; and then why one of them mysteriously returns back to save the mopping and sobbing household, for no apparent reason ofcourse! God save the family first ... then us!
13-12-2010; MOE 3