The Gabbeh, a type of hand-woven rug made by the Nomadic tribes of the Middle East, is the name and main focus point of the recently released film "Gabbeh".
The film starts as the Gabbeh drifts through a shallow river, an old couple, are attempting to cleanse the rug. As the women begins to clean the rug, the spirit of a young girl, perhaps the old lady as a young women, springs from the rug, the young girl says that the rug used to belong to her tribe, and that the rug tells the story of her tribe. The girls tribe is very family oriented, the girl wish to marry, but is told that she cannot, not till her uncle marries. Time passes and the girl's fiancé/lover follows her tribe on horseback, they finally find a wife for her husband, when her father adds another stipulation. The girl's mother is once again pregnant and the girl, being one of the oldest daughters cannot marry or leave the tribe till her mother has the baby. While this may seem mean of the father, to place all these obstacles in the way of his daughter's marriage, he may have just been ensuring that the man on horseback really wants to marry his daughter; that this man will not just run off at the first sign of trouble or hardship. This could be the father's way of ensuring that the man is serious in his intent to marry the girl. All through the film the fiancé/ lover follows the tribe remaining faithful to his betrothed.
The girl finally decides to run off with her fiancé/lover, and I can't help but think that is exactly what the father wanted, he was unable to physically let his daughter go, so he forced upon her situations, in which the only way she could truly get what she wanted was by running.
The film starts as the Gabbeh drifts through a shallow river, an old couple, are attempting to cleanse the rug. As the women begins to clean the rug, the spirit of a young girl, perhaps the old lady as a young women, springs from the rug, the young girl says that the rug used to belong to her tribe, and that the rug tells the story of her tribe. The girls tribe is very family oriented, the girl wish to marry, but is told that she cannot, not till her uncle marries. Time passes and the girl's fiancé/lover follows her tribe on horseback, they finally find a wife for her husband, when her father adds another stipulation. The girl's mother is once again pregnant and the girl, being one of the oldest daughters cannot marry or leave the tribe till her mother has the baby. While this may seem mean of the father, to place all these obstacles in the way of his daughter's marriage, he may have just been ensuring that the man on horseback really wants to marry his daughter; that this man will not just run off at the first sign of trouble or hardship. This could be the father's way of ensuring that the man is serious in his intent to marry the girl. All through the film the fiancé/ lover follows the tribe remaining faithful to his betrothed.
The girl finally decides to run off with her fiancé/lover, and I can't help but think that is exactly what the father wanted, he was unable to physically let his daughter go, so he forced upon her situations, in which the only way she could truly get what she wanted was by running.
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