Nganji Mutiri

I finally saw Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother today (with Q&A feat. Bassam Tariq and Mahershala Ali). I was already sold by its novel plot: A widowed Muslim hitman trying to balance faith and family on one side with his “job” on the other. But the film itself was tremendous. Religion has always been a big blindspot in Hollywood, which often reduces it (along with religious people) to one-dimensional caricatures. Bassam’s writing made religion and faith three-dimensional, bringing out all the tensions and complexities that come with trying to balance our commitment to our higher, often abstract ideals, with the concrete realities of real life. That’s the part that made it relatable, even if most of us aren’t assassins (lol).