Directed by:
Mira NairCinematography:
Declan QuinnComposer:
Michael AndrewsCast:
Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson, Kiefer Sutherland, Liev Schreiber, Nelsan Ellis, Martin Donovan, Om Puri, Shabana Azmi, Haluk Bilginer, Adil Hussain, Victor Slezak (more)Plots(1)
In 2011 in Lahore, a Pakistani man named Changez (Riz Ahmed) tells Bobby, an American journalist, about his experiences in the United States. Ten years earlier, Changez a Princeton graduate was working on Wall Street and had an American girlfriend. But after the September 11 attacks, his attitude to America evolved from an eager willingness to assimilate to a deep despondency with his adopted country. Based on the 2007 novel written by Mohsin Hamid. (British Film Institute (BFI))
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I really did not understand what the fundamentalist was doing here. While I will never understand the contemporary world of Muslims, on the other hand, I accept that they are also human beings, just like the rest of us, and that they also may or may not think at least partly reasonably. This movie pretends to be terribly objective and deliberately does not side with anyone. Somehow it moves through an area it doesn’t want to dig into and comfortably leaves it at the end of the journey. As a result, it is neither funny nor interesting.
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As a first thing, it caught my attention that Kate Hudson went dark-haired and surprisingly, it meant that I didn't dislike her right from the start. Could this be the key to success? As it turns out, no. This is a rather simple, or rather cliché, romance that is only spiced up by the fact that the man in this romance is Arab and most of the significant events happen against the backdrop of September 11, 2001. This leads to automatic sympathy for the hero, on the other hand, there is a reason for it. Americans were truly paranoid. However, only two scenes present this. The rest is a quite transparent drama that has an excessive length.
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