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With her headscarf, Layla runs along football field as a line judge. Energetically she acts and passionately when she appeals against a decision of referee. The fact that he has judged offside does not want her to go into her head, and that also makes her clear. “Why is re always trouble with you?” The referee’s question is rhetorical, but immediately triggers great rage at Layla. Ever Trouble with you? That’s exactly kind of lump-sum that Layla hates. Born into a Moroccan family in Amsterdam, young woman reacts highly sensitively to any so little injustice.
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This experience of discrimination puts Mijke de Jong at beginning of her ninth feature film Layla M. In part, Dutch director wants to justify developmental way that leads her protagonist in course of plot from fundamentalism to Islamism. More prominent in course of plot, however, Laylas conflicts with ir well-integrated family. The far runs a shop for ceramics, mor does not wear a headscarf. The bror notes that his Islam – unlike that of Layla – is not political, and Laylas sister smokes publicly. In opposition to this liberalism, Layla is grappling with all rage and power of an 18-year-old who seeks to construct her adult identity in confrontations of ex negativo. In this interpretation, Islamic fundamentalism that Layla joins is actually a kind of subculture for predominantly young people like you who are looking for a religious framework for ir radical idealism.
So Layla in Nikab and Chador soon demonstrates with like-minded in front of mosque – and snubbed thus her far. She designs flyers, outrages suffering in Syria, chats with “people who get involved” – vague formulation characterizes ir actual ignorance – and “spits on democracy”.
The actress Nora El Koussour gives this Layla an irrepressible, almost frightening urgency. This young woman from Mijke de Jong’s point of view is a vulnerable heroine. That may be same. Far more interesting than psychologist, however, is that Laylas self-confident commitment to a “pure Islam” or even ir actions against Geert Wilders ‘ burka ban is possible only in a Western European-shaped social fabric. These are Nerlands whose writing Layla despises, allowing her to act largely self-determined and to express her opinion freely, as long as she does not call for violence.
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Yes, this uncontrolled but highly intelligent Layla could even study medicine, but in a seizure of world contempt she throws Abitur. She overthrew herself with her family, marries a young Islamist and goes with him only to Belgium, where secret terror cells in forest are rehearsing emergency, and n to Jordan. Here is end of your own loud voice and dream of being a fighter for ” right Thing”. Rar, Layla, who is quite a feminist in her own way, is assigned role of husband’s servant, whose honor cannot be polluted by rebelliousness. This reduction as a woman is hardly to be overlooked for eventually even Western-influenced Layla.
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Asked what motivated her to just shoot this film, Mijke de Jong replies: First and foremost curiosity and fascination – religion and activism are topics that are very close to her personal heart. For a long time, she has been playing with idea of making a film about a young woman who is radicalizeding herself – at least in parts – outside society.
