East Is East
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Movie Reviews of East Is East
Movie Review: Fooled by a trailer, once again
Summary: 3 Stars
How many of you think this is a comedy? I rented this movie after seeing a trailer, with the distinct impression that it was. It is not! Who is responsible for putting the trailer together? Whoever did it, what a deceitful job! They took a few funny moments of the film, spliced them together and came up with this misrepresentation. This movie is in fact quite sad. It explores the huge cultural shift that takes place between émigrés and their first-generation children. In a sense, this film was not unlike The JoyLuck Club, for example. It does a very good job at presenting how difficult it is to bridge the cultural and generational gap. It also shows how hypocritical our parents can be in their behavior, and how different seven siblings can be. Another plus is the great job that the movie does showing a blue-collar English town in the mid-seventies. The acting is solid, the cinematography excellent, but do not expect a hilarious comedy by any means.Movie Review: ...
Summary: 3 Stars
This "tragic comedy" by Ayub Khan-Din takes place in 1971 during the Bangladesh Liberation War. It deals with the conflicts between different cultures and generations by telling the story of the Khans, a Pakistani-English family living near Manchester.
George, a Pakistani, who has married an English woman called Ella, is the head of the family and makes an effort to educate his children in the traditional Pakistani way, which means: according to Muslim principles, including customs like circumcision and arranged marriage. But as the seven teenagers feel rather English than Pakistani, the despotic Muslim doesn't really succeed in doing so.
Although some of the characters have unlovable traits you are forced to sympathise with all of them.
"East is East" gives a comprehensive impression of Pakistani life in Britain, considering both: advantages and problems of an Eastern society in a Western world.
It is worth seeing.
Movie Review: FOOO!!!
Summary: 3 Stars
To my mind the film 'East is East' lives from the brillant characs - they r not the super-hero role-model beauty-queen people, but ordinary people like u and me and that's why they fit in so perfect in the whole story - AND from a lot of stereotypes.
The story herself is presented a bit strange: it's dealt with with serious problems - but in a strange way.
On the one hand, there is shown the gap between modernity and past, between Pakistani and English culture, but on the other bloody hand there is no bloody soltution for this bastard-conflict, but even somehow a justification for the bloody father's attitude.
His eldest son doesn't follow the father's order of getting married and -TADA- he gets gay, what is presented in a very negative way. This is at the same time the second conflict - thout any solution this time.
So taking all in consideration all aspects, I'd say the movie is too strange, too stereotype.
Movie Review: east is east
Summary: 3 Stars
The movie "East is Eas" shows the daily life of an english-pakistani family, in a funny but sometimes to exaggerating way. The main topics of the movie are the religious conflict and the generation conflict between the father and his children. The dominating father tries to force his family in the Pakistani traditions like arranged marriage and circumcision. I liked the funny style but I think there is put to much in one movie.
What I mean is that you can find almost every prejudice for muslims in one film as you can imagine. I think a positive point is that the actors are very good especially Sajid is very impressing because the young actor is very convincing in playing the tragic, shy and innocent boy.
Taking everything in consideration you can say that the movie is well done and it makes you think about the problems about the second or third generation of immigrants.
Sers.
Movie Review: good cast, good stroy, sometimes to exagerating
Summary: 3 Stars
I have to say, that I liked the movie "East is East" a lot even if I think that sometimes there happened to much in such a short time...
The story is a good one because I think that things that are shown in the movie are matter of fact(problems between the first and the second generation of Muslims, the father desperately hanging on to traditions&beating his beloved wife who is more standing behind her children than behind him...)!
The cast was very well chosen-every actor did such a good job-from the little shy boy Sajid to the dominant father George!
I really can imagine that(in Muslim famlilies living in a "notmuslim" country/city)life goes like this-with a lot of different trouble and various problems for each single person...
It's a movie for people who like to laugh and who can still stay thoughtful...