Review of the movie " Reluctant Fundamentalism"

Review of the movie: 

"Reluctant Fundamentalism"

 

               This is also a Post Colonial movie and related to the question of identity.

               This is 2012 political thriller drama film based on 2007 novel, 'The Reluctant Fundamentalism' by Mohsin Hamid, Movie id directed by Mira Nair, and screen play by William Wheeler, staring by Riz Ahemedad and Kate Hudson in lead role. This movie impact of the AI Queda attack on one Pakistani man and his treatment by Americans in reaction to them.

                This movie is about a one man Changez Khan, a Pakistani man who goes to America for job and to make his good future. He easily mixed up with the environment and people of America. Everything was well going but his life changed after the attack of 9/11 on America. American people starting to doubt on him because he comes from Pakistan. He becomes symbol of terror for Americans. He faces many adversity and finally he commit professional suicide and came back to Pakistan. 

                After the attack of 9/11 all Americans think that Changez Khan is a terrorist coming from pakistan and doing work for that. His friends and his boss also do bed behaviour with Changez, and he also loss his job. His girlfriend also hate him just for he was muslim comes from Pakistan. He faces hatred from the Americans. So, with the identity of Muslim from Pakistan he faces lots of problems in America.

               After faces that kind of hatred from Americans, he decided to live in Pakistan. In the University he taught the students as a proffeser, and the students give him respect also, so there is not any identity problemsin the Pakistan.

            So, this film shows after effects of 9/11 attack also. Other countries people always remain other, through they believe it theirs. Native people will hate them. This is good film to getting idea of American's treatment with Muslims and their view point towards Muslims. It is not only Muslim Community but all orient hated by white country. So, this is good film for Post Colonial studies.

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Review of the movie Midnight's children

Review of the movie "Midnight's Children"

 

'Midnight's Children' is a film adaptation of Salman Rushdie's 1981 novel, the same name. The film is directed by Deepa Mehta. This film represent many realistic facts, magic realism, mythical technique and magical element, something that is unreal or unbelievable. Mr.Rushdie and Mrs. Gandhi became enemies when 'Midnight's Children' was published in 1981. Because this novel is covering over 60 years in a turbulent history of India and Pakistan from the end of the of the Second world war up to Indira Gandhi's repressive "Emergency" of the 1970s.

                       The main Protagonist of the film is Saleem Sunai, he is the narrator of the film. He started his story from the time of his grandfather. This film is creating many confusion, that confusion about parents of two children, who born the same night of 14th August,1947. But the christian nurse change that both children , she change them for desire of her lover Joe for same reason, he did not want the partition of the India. He told nurse to exchange children of poor and rich. The idea of tacking money from rich and give it to poor. So, it is revolutionary or Marxist idea.

                      This novel raises the ontological question of Saleem's life. We can find several gray areas about Saleem's identity. When we ask Question at that time we find several information about his existence and identity. Here we also find the problem of hybridity. The aim of Salman Rushdie to write this book is all about the situation which was faced by him, in partition time.

                           Political crisis is one of the major events of the Novel. Which portrayed the India during 'Indira Gandhi's rule. Emergency is word - known political crisis for India. Salman Rushdie masks fun of India's progress by suggesting that India and Saleem Grew together.

                           In the movie Salman Rushdie discribe the  mixture of hindi and english language. People influenced by the english language and english culture. Every human being play a political game with eachother. So, their relation is not so good with the others. 

                          At the end of the movie Hindu, Muslim and Christine three identity is presented. So, We can say that in this movie there is we find post Colonialism.  

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Thinking Activity on the Movie Screening 'The Birthday Party'

Post Viewing Task of 'The Birthday Party'

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Here is my answers to the given post – viewing Tasks of The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter

1 )Why are two scenes of Lulu omitted from the movie?

Ans – After watching this movie we see that the character of Lulu appear in the movie only two times. Because Pinter highlighted the women character, he try to make that kind of scenes. Here we see that Lulu's character abused by the men and she was also a victim. By this kind of short information we can't say about the intention of Pinter because he can not describe Lulu's character clearly.

2 ) Is movie successful in giving us the effect of menace? Where you able to feel it while reading the text?

Ans – I am not reading full text or play so i can't say based on the any reading, but i see whole movie so that i say that the movie is successful in giving us the felling of menace. In the movie door knocking,drop of water,silence,pause,breathing, camera's movement, tearing the paper, sound of drum all things create the atmosphere of menace. Also the dialogue with the pause and silence is very significance for that. 

3) Do you feel the effect of lurking danger while viewing the movie? Where you able to feel the same while reading the text

Ans – While watching the movie in the scene where Goldberg and McCan doing crucially  dialogue with Stanley at that time i feel lurking danger in the movie. Other side we also see in the movie that the effect of sound and the movement of camera also show us that the lurking danger.

4) What do you read in 'newspaper' in the movie? Petey is reading newspaper to Meg, it torn into pieces by McCain, pieces are hidden by Petey in last scene.

Ans - With the good example of 'Newspaper' Pinter tell us about the main two characters, Petey and McCan. In the beginning of the movie we see that the Petey set on the dining table with newspaper, he looking newspaper with two purpose. First is that he hide himself with the newspaper and second is that he read newspaper interestingly because he aware about the situation which is going in and around. second character is McCan he was tearing paper because of create the atmosphere of detective and to frightened Stanley he doing that kind of sound, with that there were the effect of menace also. We can say that it is also a trivia kind of thing in the movie.   

5) Camera is positioned over the head of McCain when he is playing Blind Man's Buff and is positioned at the top with a view of room like a cage (trap) when Stanley is playing it. What interpretations can you give to these positioning of camera? 

Ans – Positioning of camera was very effective in whole movie. When all the characters playing the game blind man's buff at that time camera focus on the head of McCan through this situation we see that entire room with the top angle.Top angle of the room also represent the 'cage', and also doing satire on the society and the humanity. 

6) "Pinter restored theater to its basic elements: an enclosed space and unpredictable dialogue, where people are at the mercy of one another and pretense crumbles." (Pinter, Art, Truth & Politics: Excerpts from the 2005 Nobel Lecture). Does this happen in the movie?

Ans - yes, it is shown very well in the movie that each character have mercy on other character but they are not deep interest into others life. They all are only interest into their own life, and live in only their own world. 

7)  How does viewing movie help in better understanding of the play ‘The Birthday Party’ with its typical characteristics (like painteresque, pause, silence, menace, lurking danger)?

Ans – Movie is more helping us to understand this play. Because in the original text there is not as much as effect of sound and silence or pause. In the movie there were also a good effect of camera movement with this we also read more than we read in original text. The only textual play is very boring to read but with the such kind of sound like drop of water, knocking the door all this is more effective in the movie than the text. 

8) With which of the following observations you agree:

o   “It probably wasn't possible to make a satisfactory film of "The Birthday Party."

o    “It's impossible to imagine a better film of Pinter's play than this sensitive, disturbing version directed by William Friedkin”[3]. (Ebert)

Ans – I watched the movie ' Final Destination'. The movie is a full of scary scenes so that there is the camera movement and the silence, with these the thrill comes on the mind of audience. So, here also that kind of camera movement and silence. It is a good effect on the audience mind.

9) If you were director or screenplay writer, what sort of difference would you make in the making of movie?

Ans -  As per my interpretation there is not any change into the movie, because it is very faithful to the original text. So, i can not change anything from it.

10) Who would be your choice of actors to play the role of characters?

Ans – McCan- Akshay Kumar

         Stanley – Nawaszuddin Siddki

         Goldberg- Anupam Kher

         Petey – Paresh Rawal

         Lulu- Kangna  Ranaut

         Meg- Susmita Mukherjee

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