I need to learn to go with my inner choices, ie, don't always listen to Rotten Tomatoes, Sorry. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. The lead actress was brilliant. So don't listen too much to others opinions, go with your intuitions.

It's lovely she is free, but what about the poor teacher?

This movie is an extremely well written domestic drama pulling from the experiences of the South Asian diaspora, specifically a deep understanding of a complex, conflicting, and at times maddening reality of what life is like as a child of a Muslim immigrant where parents projected their inner conflicts upon those closest to them. Each moment makes you want to help Hala find safety and surety where there is none guaranteed. Similar in many ways to how life can be for those that search for belonging within their home.

Well acted. A concise arc of the dimensions of situations and emotions facing a young girl who is about to burst into her adult life, and raised in a patriarchal home. This movie offered a sequence of layers and reveals that helped you feel the realities of one who faces the seemingly impossible challenges of cultural shackles, and the steps she takes to deal with that.

This is a film about culture clashes - about a teenage girl of eastern descent having to integrate with her peers in the US without upsetting her conservative parents, who don't agree with her wearing clothes that aren't modest and hanging out with boys etc. I imagine a lot of people can relate to this. The protagonist speaks somewhat poetically about her ability to express herself and trying to find where she stands. I can only imagine the worry she must feel about how her parents will react to certain behaviours and time spent in certain ways - this is definitely a film made sensitively, not laughing at the subject matter at all but treating it well. Its not exactly original, storywise, of course but that's ok. It does pretty well at making the viewer feel emotionally concerned for what happens to the titular character, though it is quite a slow moving film, plot wise - its more of a subtle character driven domestic drama than anything else. Yes, I'd recommend this film.

So this movie wasn't bad, but it was pretty white saviour-tier. They had no problem articulating her oppressive home-life and I like that they sort of went into the gendered dynamics underlying the relationship women of colour SAHMs often have with their spouses, but they didn't touch remotely on the experience of being a teenage immigrant amongst other white students (nothing on being bullied for not meeting eurocentric beauty standards, being ignored for standing out etc.). You can't really offer a nuanced take on what life is like for a second generation immigrant kid if the only thing you critique is how she doesn't fit in with her parents' culture and not, simultaneously, how she also doesn't fit in with the North American culture around her. It doesn't really do justice to the experience. Also, not all brown people are muslims - why are there literally no Hollywood movies about other Indians? In any case, there are so few movies about the desi experience in general, that ultimately it was still at least a little refreshing seeing one.

Honest, well-crafted, and interesting. It just never seems to fully ascend.

This film is so two-dimensional and superficially plotted that it collapses under any real scrutiny, it's attempt at examination of a complex cultural subject clearly offending and polarising some of it's audience, and while I commend the young lead actor for bringing depth to her role with an expressive performance and proficient use of a skateboard (and I hope and imagine it will be a good launch-vehicle for her), despite her character's somewhat unbelievable choices, I am left bewildered and annoyed that this production that would not look out-of-place at a second-year film student's festival screening has achieved flagship platform positioning on Apple 온라인카지노추천+ they must have been desperate for diverse content, fair enough, but I do not recommend you watch this film as it will probably leave you confused, annoyed and possibly offended!

Very stereotypical and border line racist. It was an insult to religion and religious people

The movie was boring and really doesn't have that much to it.

Terrible movie sets a bad representation on Islam. The director obviously doesn't know that Muslims don't have to wear the Hijab and that it's not forced. The story is also showing that Muslims are bad and forcing things which they don't

O filme desempenha um papel de quebra de tabu cultural religioso, o que no meu ver foi algo incrível, além de abordar a dificuldade de lidar com problemas familiares e um misto de emoção.

Hala doesn't do anything new in the coming of age indie genre, but it quietly and effectively explores the tugs of assimilation for American children growing up in a foreign household. It's tremendously acted as well. While some may find the style of the film bland, others will enjoy its tranquil approach. However, it's important to note that it seems that many feel the film misrepresents how it is to be a hijabi in the States, and falls back on stereotypes.

One shouldn't expect a "diverse" character story be depicted as the perfect person in a perfect world cause there's nothing interesting about that. The fact that we lack diverse and/or muslim characters that are not the typical clichés depicted by western ppl/directors doesn't mean that the story of a muslim girl should be a sweetened version of what the reality is. The director chose to tell a story that she could relate too, and that many girls/persons could relate too also: the fact that her mom has difficulties to cope with her daughter becoming an adult, the pretend-to-be cool but absent father, the turmoil with the hormones and the curiosity about sex...all of these human issues to cope with when you grow up in a 1st-generation Pakistani-American very traditional family. I could totally relate to some of those topics (and don't have the same background at all), and even if they are muslims the issue is never really the religion but more how they chose to conduct their cultural behavior in the west according to what they have been thought in the "homeland". This is actually the Big dichotomy that provokes all the generational issues between 1st and 2nd generation immigrants. This coming-of-age drama might be a bit slow for some, but I like when we go deep into one character. Also the director took risks (like the last scene could be totally misinterpreted as anti-Islam), so shout to her and to this story about self-discovery.

Wonderfully written and beautifully directed by Minhal Baig, we follow the titular Hala in her last few months of high school, trying to figure out what she wants to do with her life, embracing her crush on a classmate and growing to understand that her home life isn't quite what she thought it was. The brilliance here is the change in how she (and in turn the we) see her mother and father at the start of the movie compared to the end. It's subtle, it's patient and it's really effective character development.

Stunning movie with great acting. Very well written and presented regarding the challenges of a teenager growing up, cross culture issues, a family under significant stress.

the number of navel-gazey shots, slow-mo scenes, poetic voiceover and the dialogue were all too bland... the acting was that great either. I did not like the approach of "finding yourself" that was equated with rejecting one's faith/culture while embracing "white culture". It could've been done differently (look at the 온라인카지노추천 show ramy ; where we actually knew what the main character thinks/feels). there is value in complexity in these stories, because these stories are complex. however with hala it was everything but that.

This coming of age story starts of very well but suffers incredibly in its second half. The story is built up well but then falls dramatically leading up to a choppy and non-satisfactory finish. The performances are very good, particularly from the lead actress but even that excellence could not rescue you from the poor finish. In the end its just about above average.

Fantastic movie! Truthful and realistic. The movie is not Islamophobic in the least and those who say it is are unable to accept that just because there are those that are happy wearing a hijab, there are those that are oppressed in conservative Muslim families. Aqsa Parvez was murdered by her family when she chose not to wear it. Many are living quietly in their homes and choose not to wear it but do so because of the fear of being ostracized or punished by their families. This is a great movie and those who are offended can make their own version. I'm sure there are plenty of movies in Islamic countries that show hijabs as being great and that's fine but Hala was loosely based on the life experiences of a Pakistani woman from Chicago who wrote the screenplay. The acting was good and the story needed to be told and I applaud them for that.

Pure Propoganda movie.