Yasmin (2004)

Very disappointing...

The Worst Film Ever

That was an excellent one.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

While watching the movie "Yasmin", directed by Kenny Glenaan, you get a realistic picture of a Muslim family from Pakistan living in the north of England. As you can guess from the title, the plot is focused on emancipated Yasmin Husseini, who switches between her traditional Muslim and her modern western life. After the incidents of 9/11, an arranged marriage and a night in prison, she withdraws from her "double-life" and comes back to her Muslim origin. Without using any spectacular visual effects "Yasmin" catches you with a lot authenticity. All of the different but interesting and individual characters make the film very dynamic. On the one hand, there is the conservative father Khalid, who just tries to conform to his western life without losing his Muslim tradition. Yasmin's brother Nasir, on the other hand, is fed up with his life in the western culture. Another important person is Faisal, the "import" and Yasmin's husband, who is not able to communicate with anyone of the Husseinis but a goat. Yasmin as the main character has to cope with all these family members and tries not to hurt or disappoint anyone. You will see how she manages all that, although going on with her ordinary modern lifestyle.I want to recommend this movie to all of you because it shows a point of view from "the other side" of dealing with terror and religious identity. You are demanded to think about Muslim culture and our established prejudices.

The movie "Yasmin" is about the life of a Muslim woman living in Britain before and after 9/11 and her personal conflict between her western life at work and her traditional life at home. After the attacks in New York Yasmin's life changes completely and she has to handle how these attacks influence her two lives. Beside Yasmin Husseini, the main characters are her family and her colleague John Bailey. Her family are her father Khalid, who wants her be a pious Muslim, her younger brother Nasir, who think 9/11 "had style" and who develops a lot after his family got problems with the police, and Faisel her husband of an arranged marriage, who is suspected of contacts with a terror organization. John seems to be Yasmin's secrete love but he actually does not know about her life at home because she hides it. I think the director's intention was to tell us that we that we have to overcome prejudices. He wants us to think about a person and not to form an opinion on things others have done. He wants the audience to start thinking not to judge over people without knowing them and say that they are enemies because they could be victims as well. I think "Yasmin" is a good movie because it shows the effects of attacks from another angle. Not from a western-world person's but from the Muslim's, not only have to handle the fears everyone has got, but also the way they are treated because they have the same religion as the terrorists. The movie is breathtaking and makes you think in a different way from before.

Film review, "Yasmin" 18/03/07 Falco Peisert The British movie – Yasmin -, released in 2004, deals with the life of a Pakistani woman, in Britain, and how the terrorist attacks of 9/11 influence her life.Yasmin suffers from a bogus marriage with her cousin. In addition, her father, a deeply religious person, hinders Yasmin in adopting the western lifestyle, therefore she has to keep secret the way she dresses and behaves.After the terrorist attacks, her life changes completely. She loses colleague's acceptance and becomes a suspect for the police. Because she loses faith in her friends accepting her innocence of the terrorist attacks, she finds back to the Islam and does not reject it any longer. In the end, she has lost her brother, who has become an extremist.The film focuses on Yasmin and her family members.Yasmin's father is strict and religious therefore he cares about the mosque after work. He educates his son Nasir religiously to be a good Moslem. The father thinks a lot about their old home in Pakistan and his wife, therefore he often dreams of old memories but he does not see reality and his daughter's problems. He also condemns his daughter's decision to leave Faysal. The father obviously rejects any hatred against the western culture after the terrorist attacks and he is very sad and deeply disturbed after Nasir's departure to Pakistan.Yasmin is responsible-minded. She accepts her father's view about the Islam, but she wants to be independent. Yasmin is not prejudice against anyone and she is open-minded to British culture. She accepts her responsibility, to care about her family and to adapt to theIslam pattern in her district.In my view, the director wants to show that immigrants can successfully be assimilated tosociety. But that does not mean that prejudices are eradicated. The situation forimmigrants in a society accepting certain cultures can change and that's the point.I would recommend the film because the depicted impacts for immigrants after the terroristattacks are not fictional.

"Yasmin", a film by Kenny Glenaan reports about the life of a young woman, living and born in Great Britain, but having an immigrant background, before and after 9/11.Yasmin, a young woman, with parents from Pakistan, lives a life divided into two halves. On the one hand she tries to fit the expectations of her father, for example living in a bogus marriage with her cousin. On the other hand she attempts to stand on her own feet, having a real job and English friends. This fragile lifestyle is destroyed by the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers on September 11. Yasmin's already hard life is getting even harder and she tries to handle the situation with everything she has got and not to give in. But not only Yasmin's life is turned upside down by the events of 9/11. The movie shows how everybody suffers from this event. John, Yasmin's colleague, is no longer able to decide what's right or wrong, is afraid of his friend, like lots of other, non-Muslim people were at this time. Nasir, Yasmin's brother, is brain-washed by terrorist activists. Faysal, Yasmin's husband, is suspected by the police to be a terrorist. In my opinion, it is quite hard to identify with any of these characters, when you have never made any experiences comparable to theirs. On the other hand, it has not been hard at all to sympathize with all of the characters. One of the messages of the film, is to think from different perspectives. The film says a lot about tolerance and understanding each other. For me, it has had the effect, that I think you really need to slip into another person's skin if you truly want to understand this person. All in all the film is close to reality and that is what makes it so touching. I really had to think a lot about what I have seen and I think it can change people's minds. I truly recommend this film. Not only because of the touching effect it has but also because of the understanding you get from it.