This happens from time to time. There are just a few subjects, like Islam, biased media, and parent-children relationships, where they're more than willing to share their thoughts. Oftentimes, there isn't much doing.
But this time the subject was movies, and the result surprised me a bit.
It wasn't so much that students didn't have favorite actors or hated movies. But any attempt to make the ideas of one student interact with the ideas of another student didn't get very far.
One of my students couldn't remember the last time she had seen a movie. The only part of the discussion she participated in was when we briefly mentioned "Titanic".
A lot of students just couldn't remember anything that they had watched recently. Most students had seen movies but couldn't remember names. This phenomenon, of course, is complicated by the fact that the French versions they often watch have been absurdly retitled.
Eventually our conversation drifted into the territory of "Why are Moroccan movies so bad?"
On that subject, my students found surprising agreement (the one woman who doesn't watch movies regularly, notwithstanding).
My students' diagnosis: Moroccan acting is pretty awful. Improve the acting and create real endings, and Moroccan cinema will be on its way to being taken seriously.
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