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Farha (2021)
Gripping
I saw this movie on Netflix and it depicts the tale of a young girl who lives in a Palestinian village with her father in 1948 at the beginning of the invasion of her homeland.
This gripping film will leave you on the edge of your seat as you watch her hide out in a storage room while witnessing the displacement of her community and the assassination of the families in the region.
It does an excellent job of depicting how colonization can devastate an entire country, displace its people and obliterate generations of families that share a heritage to that homeland spanning hundreds of years.
I cannot recommended this movie enough. The acting in this film was superb, highlighting the beauty of Palestinian culture through clothes, food and customs. The actors showed the struggle of balancing traditional customs with the increasing demand for women's right to education.
Overall, the nail biting experience of the main character will give you insight into the Palestinian peoples' resistance to the occupation and the catastrophe that we know as the Nakba.
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
Total waste of time
I'm not a huge Harry Potter fan and haven't seen all of the films but I thought this would be a good movie to watch with a friend who grew up loving the series.
Nevertheless, we go into the theatre and commence to wasting two hours of our time.
This movie made no sense at all. It just slips from one scene to another. There's never an actual point in the movie where I felt like I knew what was happening. And there's no semblance of a storyline. It just doesn't make sense.
I still cannot tell you what happened. And I saw the entire thing from start to finish.
And it's a shame too. The special effects and graphics are top notch. And the acting was superb. The big name actors all wasted their time associating themselves with this garbage movie.
If I could rate it any lower, I would.
Don't waste your time. Run.