What does "one plus one, does it make one?" mean in movie Incendies?
In the movie Incendies, when Simon gets to know about his brother from Warlord to tell his sister Jeanne about the brother, he asks her
"One plus one, does it make one?"
I understood what he was trying to say from his sister's expression and later parts of the movie, but didn't get it at that moment. How does his sister understood what he meant to say by just this phrase?
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It is my theory that these kids are intelligent and this is the normal way they communicate with each other, kind of like solving puzzles.
"One plus one, does it make one?" means they are looking for 2 guys: one is their father and one is their mother's lost child, i.e their elder brother. So from their point of view 1 guy is the Father and 1 guy is the Elder brother (from their mother's point of view 1 guy is the Father of her children and 1 guys is her son). "One plus one, does it make one?" means "both are the same", not like a question or saying that is something which gives them so much weight to take and accept. 1+1=1!
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Is incendies based on a true story?
'' That's not precisely true. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, the movie is indeed set mostly in a fictitious land. But that nation is easily identified as Lebanon, and characters and events in the script are derived from the country's 1975-1990 civil war.What was the twist in Incendies?
The twins' father (and their mother's torturer in prison, Abou Tarek), turns out to be the child she gave up as a teenager, making him both their father AND their brother. We flashback to when she went silent and the pool, and it's revealed that he was there as well, and did not recognize her.Can Oneplus one be one?
Basically the one plus one equals two meant that if there was one son and one father, they would be two different people.What language is incendies in?
FrenchArabicEnglishjeanne? One plus one, does it make one?
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They had two letters looking for their owners.
Their mother had given them two letters, one to their father and the other to their brother
The meaning of this dialogue is that although there are two letters, the owners of those letters are not two people.
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