The first is Are You There, God?: It’s Me Margaret. In addition to being a good movie, it is pro-American, pro-family, pro-religious tolerance, pro-suburbs, and even pro-New Jersey, none of it done pedantically or with excess self-consciousness. The second is Polite Society, a British comedy-action-Pakistani marriage film, with a South Asian kinetic feel but ultimately
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The first is Are You There, God?: It’s Me Margaret. In addition to being a good movie, it is pro-American, pro-family, pro-religious tolerance, pro-suburbs, and even pro-New Jersey, none of it done pedantically or with excess self-consciousness.
The second is Polite Society, a British comedy-action-Pakistani marriage film, with a South Asian kinetic feel but ultimately in the Western moviemaking tradition. One Pakistani younger sister is trying to stop the older sister from getting married, and she persists past a reasonable point. The whole plot only makes sense if you realize the younger sister has been sexually abused (is it a spoiler if your reader/viewer might not have seen the point in the first place?). Ultimately this movie is about the very limited range of options facing Pakistani women in British society, even with Western comforts and pseudo-freedoms.
Both are recommended.
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