Movie Night #1 - Arranged
This movie showed a depiction of arranged marriage that is quite different from what is, in my experience, the way that it is generally thought of by people who have never actually seen it happening. The arranged marriages I had heard about before watching this movie were usually situations where a very young girl is promised in marriage by her father to a very young boy, and the two of them don't get any say in the matter. In this movie, two arranged marriages are focused upon and each of them are a bit different from the other, but both women have some say in who they marry. Something I really like about the story is that it doesn't glorify arranged marriages, and it doesn't make them look bad or discriminatory either.
I think the main technical thing that sets this movie apart from mainstream films is its general appearance. The houses that the main characters live in are not flawless, they are not masterfully designed, they are not beautiful to look at. The clothing that the characters wear doesn't look like it was carefully arranged to look not carefully arranged. It just looks not carefully arranged. This makes the movie more realistic, I think, but maybe slightly less pleasing to watch. I think it's a good thing, though, that people should see more of in the media. Characters who are flawed, not just in personality but in appearance, are almost never shown in the mainstream media, but every real person looks flawed in some way. |