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(The article continues below - Commercial information) The sound of waves can be heard as the camera turns to Beirut from the sea. The plane view immediately shows us a unique perspective of Lebanon, a distanced look that offers the capital city as grey and lifeless. Throughout the film, the camera pans across the city, delivering a perspective of Beirut s skyline that is more familiar to those used to seeing the skyscrapers of New York City. This unusual perspective of a place customarily seen on screen as vibrant and chaotic sets up one of the main themes of The Sea Ahead, which is that Beirut is a city of ghosts, devastated by years of mismanagement. After filming, the city was hit by a large explosion (only the nuclear bombs in Japan during World War 2 have had a bigger impact) in a warehouse on the port, which tore down buildings and smashed windows around the city. Knowledge of this disaster makes the way the beguiling Jana (

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