Incendies: Movie Index

| Symbol | Meaning | |--------|---------| | | Destruction of binary logic; incestuous inevitability; unity through horror | | Scissors | Castration, cutting ties, memory | | Three dots (ankle tattoo) | Family mark, identity, maternal recognition | | Swimming pool | Violence, baptism, revelation | | Bus of children | Massacre, innocence destroyed | | The letter W (or 3) in sand | Wound, waiting, woman, war | | Singing without words | Resistance without language |

acclaimed stage play. It follows twins Jeanne and Simon Marwan as they travel to the Middle East to uncover the hidden past of their mother, Nawal, in an unnamed country heavily inspired by the history of the Lebanese Civil War Key Narrative Pillars Incendies Movie Index

Daresh (fictionalized Lebanese setting) and the Kfar Ryat prison. Thematic Pillars The Cycle of Violence: | Symbol | Meaning | |--------|---------| | |