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Release Date: 04 March, 2003 Retail Price: $14.99 OUR Price: $13.49 You SAVE: $1.50! Cast: Complete Cast (5 total) |
East Is East Reviews
You'll laugh, you'll cry...maybe not, but see this movie
This film--already out on DVD in Britain judging from thecustomer reviews below--has been a sleeper hit in US cities thisspring. Its theme of ethnic pride and culture preservation will certainly find resonance here. The fact that we are concerned with Pakistanis in Northern England rather than, say, Hispanics in NYC or Miami may actually help US viewers sharpen their focus.
This is a well-told tale, with characters you'll come to care about. It's easy to become angry with George Khan, the Pakistani immigrant who anglicized his first name but made sure his children all had Islamic names. As portrayed by Om Puri, his conflicted character is largely a sympathetic one. The fact that he married an English woman of his choice but then insists on arranging marriages with Pakistani women for his sons may strike some viewers as the height of hypocrisy. It is, of course, but it forces us to look at hypocrisy or personal inconsistency in a new light. George's actions make perfect sense when viewed as the desparate attempts of a man caught in a profound cultural conflict and trying to make sense of it all--for himself and for his children. He's a bully, all right, but in that he is not completely unsympathetic.
The comedy is sometimes a bit too broad and slapsticky at times. And I confess that like many viewers on this side of the Atlantic, I had trouble at times with the accents and the slang (being able to view the film in a home-based format should help in that regard). These are minor, minor complaints. This is a movie with broader appeal than the reviews might suggest. That it's getting the attention it deserves is a minor cause for celebration. END
If you want comedy, put this one back on the shelf...
I have been reading what other people have thought of EAST IS EAST, and just want to know: WHAT WAS SO FUNNY? I watch alot of british comedies, and this was not that funny at all. I was very disappointed with this film. It was more dramatic and tragic than comedic. It's about a family in which the Pakistan father of a large group of children, whose mother is English. The father is trying to keep with tradition of Pakistan and arrange his sons' marriages. There was very little humor in my opinion, I laughed maybe four times in the entirity of the film. The acting was pretty good, but it was so sad how the father treated his family especially his wife. It was disturbing to me how it ended. I don't recommend this movie at all, it was fair.
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