This just felt like an anti Saudi propaganda movie. Don't get me started on how bad of an actress Jennifer Garner is. She uses those lips of hers to get roles I bet.
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It might seem like propaganda. It certainly doesn't portray Saudi Arabia in the best light. I have never been there, but I have a feeling I would not be welcome there. However, I do love Jennifer Garner's lips.
shareI don't know how accurate it was in terms of Saudi Arabian life, but I think the general feel of the movie was fairly right on. This is a place where women cannot be seen in public without a guardian. They are owned by their fathers, then their husbands, and if there husbands die, they can be left in the hands of their adult children. If you are suspected of doing something against the King, including speaking out, you can get beheaded. Is it propaganda if it is true or in the general neighborhood? And under what light would Saudi Arabia look good? The recent Tom Hanks movie "A Hologram For The King" was interesting, but it did not get much into the reality of Saudi Arabia, and also his connection with the guerrillas working for change would have been a major thing that could have gotten them all killed. Interesting movie, but the whole Islamic world really does have major human rights problems that makes them problematic for the West. Sadly the West seems to be moving in that direction because of all of its mistakes.
shareI thought she did a fine job.
shareThe reality of Saudi Arabia has always been the contradiction between extremely conservative Islamic chauvinism while somehow denying its connection to radical Islamic terrorism.
If anything, this movie lets the Saudis off the hook to some degree by making them sympathetic and aggregating the crimes to non-Saudis.