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Yasmin (2004)
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Yasmin is about the effects of a British Muslim before and after the 9/11 period. It stars Archie panjabi who stars as Yasmin, a Muslim woman to find herself. she leads a double life at home she act as a traditional Muslim girl and at work she tries to blend in with work colleges. She also has an arrange marriage with a cousin so he can visa in the country. The first half is quite light hearted drama, but the tone of film starts to change after the 9/11 twin towers attack. She finds herself getting racial abuse from work mates, abuse from public and then her husband is falsely accused of being a terrorist. When she visit her husband to get a divorce she also finds herself being accused of having terrorist connections. From this point she starts to re-evaluate her life and her Muslim beliefs.
As being a Muslim myself i found this to be the first drama that actually gave an accurate portrayal of what Brit-Muslim went though and how they felt. Archie panjabi fantastic performance and a realistic portrayal of a Muslim. I would recommend seeing this if you want to see how Muslims really felt.I have recently seen a lot of dramas about Muslim during the 9/11 period and have not been happy with how Muslims are constantly being made out to be terrorist,so i was surprised to see a realistic drama that showed Muslim in a good light. Also this drama is based on true facts as the film makers did research in the Muslim community and asked Muslims about how they were treated during that time.
Over all i thought this was a good and realist drama and world recommend it to anyone who wants to see a realistic portrayal of British Muslims.
The Grudge (2004)
The grudge review
Hi everyone this is my first time using on IMDb.
I have just seen the Grudge i would like to say it is much better and a lot scarier than i thought it would be. The film stars Buffy star Sarah Michelle Gellar, who is an American carer in Japan. When she goes on her first job she goes an American house to look after an American elderly. As soon as she enters the house the tone of the film becomes a lot darker and finds there are other people in the house that shouldn't be there. I don't wanna give anymore away- you'll have to see it! I have to say i did enjoy the film and would recommend it to others, it's diffidently the scariest horror i've see ages. There have been a lot of people saying it is a rip off version of the ring, but they are completely different stories.
But the Ring overall i would have to say is better because as the director of the grudge did say his inspiration for this film was the ring. So i have to say ring is better because of it's originality and because the story is more complete than the grudge. If you've seen the ending to the grudge you'll know what i mean!. I've heard there is supposed to be 2 jap version of grudge with the same ending- this is why i was slightly disappointed with the ending it seemed as though the director didn't know how to end the story so he went for an easy you cant do anything about ( like in jeepers creepers- you can't kill the monster)the curse ending. But i've heard there is gonna be a third part to jap version which i'm hoping will give fans a satisfying ending than the he's been using for the first two films. This is why i've said the ring is only slightly better because they didn't just say you can't do anything about the curse of the ring but they give a excellent ending unlike the grudge. But i still recoommend you watch the grudge- it will stay in your head for days!