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One of my all time favorites.

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An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

First of all, the story line was non existing. I didn't see the point of the film until 9/11 occurred. All I witnessed were bad representations of stereotypes, bad acting and you could say offensive characters. We'll start with that fact that only one person could act and that was Renu Setna who played Khalid (the father). He portrayed a good example of a traditional Muslim father and for that I have to give him credit. Although I have read that Archie Panjabi is a wonderful actress I did not see this the main point being her accent was horrendous. Not even to mention Steve Jackson's (John) diabolic performance - he can not act to save his life.Also I have to say that the fact the scene of this poor elderly woman not realising the cameras helping the Muslim lady being discriminated was left in to draw the audience - shows how bad the rest of the screen writing was.

With "Yasmin" Kenny Glenaan has created a very moving film, picturing the growing Islamophobia in England after 9/11.He has established the plot around the young Pakistani woman Yasmin who can hardly manage to combine her western lifestyle with the expectations of her father to be a pious Muslim housewife. Nonetheless she is well-educated and a social worker whereas at home she does the household and does not really have a say. After 9/11 all her colleagues, including her caring friend John, turn away from her and seem to connect Yasmin with Muslim terrorists, although she does not see herself as a traditional Muslim, anyway. Finally her family seems to fall apart, too, after the police have raided their houses."Yasmin", as a politically motivated film, is a very realistic respond to the general reactions to the incident of 9/11. In an interview Glenaan said he wanted to give people, especially Muslima, a voice, to what I think "Yasmin" is an impressing solution.

While watching the drama "Yasmin" by Kenny Glenaan the viewer gets the impression of how life could be when you are torn between two worlds and cannot decide which one is better for you or how you can combine them. Yasmin is a young Muslim woman who lives two different lifestyles of a typically English woman who lives two different lifestyles at a time: On the one hand, the life in a Muslim community in England, and on the other hand, the lifestyle of a typically English woman in working-class surroundings. When she goes to work, she changes form her traditional Muslim dress into average western style and changes them back when she comes home to her community. The movie deals with the problems of a woman who tries to live two different lifestyles while hiding her background. It deals with the prejudice that English people have got with other religions. I think, the director's intention was to show the audience the invisible war that is going on in England against Muslim people especially after 9/11. I could feel sympathy for Yasmin because I think it must be really hard to live such a life according to the laws of her father and to the expectations of the English people of her. I really like the film because it has made me think about how people can feel when they get rejected. It shows how life can change after such an event like 9/11, and how Islamophobia has grown in the English towns. I would recommend the film because it has got a really good story and subtext. The actors play their roles really well.

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.