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The Worst Film Ever

Excellent adaptation.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

I was brought here, and I'm so happy that I was, by the 'Mary Shelley' Junkets. I of course like everyone who thought Frankenstein is a special book. So I looked up the people behind it on the legendary IMDB bebeplesae!!!! And thank you IMDB for the great job you all do on a never ending! So I watched this to see the precursor, if an omen of goodness would manifest before me or I would be bestowed by a plague on both films. Abuuut Half way in or so, I forgot all about Mary and Elle and in fact, everything and everyone and modern society and I was so immersed in this gem that I found myself floating in another realm, a sweet region so remote from the same old higgledy-piggledy that the first thing I said out loud to myself was 'dang! This is screen-writing 101! This is who you go to for a wonderful seminal terrific screenplay festooned with all the wonderful trimmings only a super-ingenious-smart-lovely-creative story-teller can provide administer and deliver! It was just so nuanced, no preachy nothing, even though the antagonist or teacher lady was delivering these homilies they didn't feel like forced or nothing, it was just a special work of art. And I learnt so much, I had no idea about all this stuff, but how much fun is it to learn from creative art than to watch some crummy lousy overblown hyped up weird sensationalized newscast - yuk on that score, but on this - I want to watch it again!! And oh! This is after watching 'Mary' which I have not left a review, but this is all I have to say , I will be saying it there as well, It is a huge crime in creative writing if this person, is not pumping out works of art on a regular... either fixing stuff, pumping out scripts, directing her own work, others work.. whatever, just someone pray, do not waste good talent, and this folks, is superlative talent!

I don't really believe in giving films points; credit or positive reviews on the shallow basis that they merely are what they are. "Wadjda" is the first feature film shot entirely in Saudi Arabia - not only this, but is the first feature-length film made by a female Saudi director AND revolves entirely around the world of a little girl. This is quite something for a nation which, until recently, had both banned cinemas and are rather strident in what they permit their female population to do. The sheer fact that "Wadjda" even exists has thus led to the likes of John Hartl, of the Seattle Times, to say it deserves praise "...just for being what it is", but this is not a philosophy I find myself being able to subscribe to. I think it right to say that similar cries of acclaim were directed towards "Osama" in 2003, which was one of only a handful of films the nation of Afghanistan had ever made and was, I believe, the first to be produced in a post-Taliban era. Subjectivity, however, must always triumph.If "Wadjda" deserves any credit for anything at all, then it is for the fact that it is a damn fine impressive piece of film-making in its own respect. It is so competent, in fact, that watching it and researching the facts afterwards causes you to wonder if anything that you are reading about the strictness of film-making in Saudi Arabia even existed at all. Indeed, by the looks of things, their citizenry are as cine-literate as anyone else and are more than aware of how to put together a solid piece of drama film-making."Wadjda" revolves around a young girl played by Waad Mohammed, who is the Wadjda of the title. She lives in Riyadh with her mother and father; attends school and enjoys messing around with a boy named Abdullah (Abdullrahman Algohani). Wadjda is a bit of a rebel: she is bored by prayer recitation at school and wears trainers where everyone else dons more formal looking footwear. At home, she records pop music off the radio and dances to it in her room - because we're all experts in Middle Eastern cinema, we know from seeing 2009's "Afghan Star" that it is illegal for women to dance because one of the contestants in said documentary landed themselves in some serious trouble when she momentarily did such a thing. She has a streak of wit to her: "I'm too good looking to be related to you" she quips to a shop-keeper before haggling with him. The bulk of the film will go on to consist of a lust Wadjda has for a bicycle she cannot afford and will not have bought for her - a solution, however, arrives in the form of a Quran recital competition which comes with a cash prize. The exchanges between the characters throughout feel very real - this is seemingly a film about fictitious people in a given situation, of course, but it is also a film depicting a kind of liberation from being unable to act in front of a camera for the purposes of film-making. Both the editing and camerawork additionally do well to place you on the dusty streets of Riyadh. Al Mansour decides to take the opportunity of being the first woman to make a Saudi Arabian film in order to go down the route of a kind of progressivism - "Wadjda" is not a film particularly eager to make the case for the status quo, but it is not an especially aggressive film which stamps its feet for the cause of social change. Much of this, I think, is down to the fact the film is about children and a child - more specifically, a child who rebels. A film about an adult woman causing trouble, or mischief, may have been at once less subtle and harmed its chances of getting made. Moreover, Al Mansour appears to use the film as an opportunity to address the issues dominating contemporary politics in Saudi Arabia, but does so in such a way that is not preachy and assumes the viewer know nothing of Saudi society. I was unsure, for example, if the scene whereby Wadja's mother spends a good deal of time on screen in her own home uncovered, before covering her head with a burka in order so that her taxi driver will not see her face, was meant to be comedic or not: will Muslim men watching the film not see her anyway as she stands, on screen, before she covers up? Irrespective, if at first we were unsure of how men and women interact with one another in this place, we are certain when Wadjda's teacher outlines that a woman's voice is her "nakedness" if a man hears her speak. Best, therefore, to keep silent whenever possible.Wadjda's desire for a bicycle derives from seeing several boys riding bikes and her thinking it looks like quite good fun. The bike, therefore, comes to epitomise a sense of evenness. In conjunction with this, the director additionally depicts the otherwise harmless friendship between Wadjda and Abdullah - two foils otherwise spending the entire film at one another's throats but destined, we feel, to remain together for the rest of their lives. What kind of marriage they forge between them, and what role Wadjda might have in fulfilling the position of the wife, is perhaps uncertain: we sense Al Mansour hopes it will be different to what the reality might be if the film had been made forty years earlier.

This film is about a young spunky girl growing up in Saudi Arabia. Her mother is married to a man but he is making a decision on whether to marry another women or not. Throughout the movie the girl, Wadjda, learns to ride a bike from a neighbor boy. She eventually can ride on her own but has trouble getting a bike of her own. When she asks for one her mother tells her bikes are for boys and that it would be very odd if Wadjda would get a bike. The father decided to marry the new women so the mothers heart is broken. She turns all her love to Wadjda and in the end of the movie she gives Wadjda a new bike.

Many of you might have watched this movie without really knowing the history behind it and how much this movie really means to the women of Saudi Arabia and to their country on general. Wadjda is not simply a movie about the oppressing rules in Saudi Arabia and how a girl over comes them. The movie itself is an example of this. Haifaa Al-Mansour is the first Saudi woman director of the country. She had to fight for almost 3 years to get the financial support to get the movie made and once she did she face difficulties while filming because she could not be seen interacting with the men of the crew in public so she had to stay inside of a ban from where she directed which made it extremely difficult to do so. Wadjda was also the first feature length movie shoot entirely in Saudi Arabia and with a mostly Saudi cast. This was also the first movie the country ever submitted to be considered by the Academy Awards, it did not get nominated but the simple fact that it was submitted speaks a lot about how important this movie is.Of course, the story of Wadjda had a lot to do with the recognition of the movie. The story of a girl who want to ride a bicycle in a country where bicycles are only for boys. Wadjda doesn't give up and does whatever she has to do to get her bicycle and race her friend. We see the character of the movie overcome many obstacles on their lives, from simply cutting their hair to taking responsibility for their actions. The movie clearly criticizes the society of Saudi Arabia but it also shows how the people of the country can help make it better and that it is possible for it to get better. The movie was controversial when it first came out, Haifaa Al-Mansour faced criticism for the source of her movie calling it anti-religious, which she denied. The movie was still a big success in the country which shows how there is hope for it to change for the better and how it is already changing.