Getting Over An Ex-Boyfriend? Egyptian Filmmaker Amr Assaid Gives Us The Lowdown

Amr Assaid has us remembering all the breakups we went through – in a good way, though. The denial, tears, sniffles, sappy love songs by Adele, and the drunk texting that ends up in remorse and explodes into a giant 47575 calorie tub of ice cream. We have to admit, some of the emotions that we exert make us really get in touch with ourselves. Like, 'hey, a little human exists inside of me'. So, we're just grateful for Assaid's two-and-a-half minute film on how to get over an ex-boyfriend that really hits the nail on the head, essentially defined through its title, The Lowdown // How To Get Over Him.We all love getting the lowdown on anything – except from our mothers, whose lowdown is usually the angry goal of 'hagawezzek seed seedo!' – and while it doesn't necessarily mean we can follow through and do exactly what it entails, the short film still serves us a sense of the universality of what we're going through, we're really not alone. It's all about the ups and downs a girl goes through in a breakup. Sounds overdone, right? Not this one. Assaid tells us his inspiration comes from the girlfriends themselves, "There are multiple layers to how I was inspired, I learned a lot from my ex-girlfriends, and from my friends who are girls, and it turned me into a feminist – which is quite uncommon in our society, but I empathise. A lot of my friends come to me with their problems, so you could say I became an informal psychologist. So, a lot of stories come here, and a lot of the time I record them, and those become the fuel for the concept."