East Is East
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Om Puri,
Linda Bassett,
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Erscheinungsdatum: Januar 2001
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Non-migration as a problem East is East - a film by Damien O'Donnel from 1991. This film deals with migration in Britain. The main characters are the Khan's family, having a British mother Ella and a Pakistani father George. The main topic of the film is the conflict of the two cultures getting together in this family. I think the film "East is East" represents the problems of migration very well. Often/Sometimes migrants do not want to accept the language, tradition and customs of their new home, although they live in another country for a long time. Particularly for the migration family's children it is hard to assimilate with other people/children for example at school for their life is splitted into two halves: the traditional home part and the part with foreign customs and language.
In the film this two parts of life for the Kahn's children are portrayed. On the one hand they get to know the Pakistani tradition at home for their father immigrated from Pakistan many years ago. They have to go to the mosque, wear Pakistani clothes and are to learn Urdu(the national language of Pakistan). On the other hand the children get to know the Christianity and the british tradition from their british protestant mother and their friends at school.
In "East is East2 the Kahn's family unites two different cultures: Pakistani and British. And although the film criticizes the non-integration of foreigners ( for the family relationships are shown as very bad), it demonstrates at the same time that migration is not impossible (for the Kahn's children feel themselves as Pritish and integrate very well into the British society). All in one I liked the film very well for it deals with the topic of migration critically showing many aspects of this subject area.
B.C.
The film East is East shows very clearly the daily life and the typical problems in a family where the parents have different religions and different cultures. It demonstrates the complicacies in the upbringing of the children when the question of the cultures, the tradition and the religion is not clarity. The film is helpful to understand how hard it is to live in a family with different cultures.
In the film is the conflict between Ella, who is for autonomous children an personal liberty, and George, who is immediately obedience, evident.
But I think that the father, George, is presented too terrible. In most of the families there are such problems but I don't think that they are so bad like the relationship between George and Ella. Besides I think that in other families where the parents have the same culture such problems also can be if for the parents among each other or for the parents and the kids other things are important.
So I think the film shows us very clearly which problems may be in a family with different backgrounds, but it has not to be like that and it is often like that also in normal families where they have the same culture.
D.L.
The film East is East by Damien O D'onnel from 1991 is about a family, whose father is the tyrannt of his family. The father George Khan lives with his wife Ella Khan, who is English, in Great Britain. He wants to marry off his six sons and his daughter according to the Pakistani traditions. He offends his oldest son, because he does not want to marry a women (he is gay). Finally the father leaves the family, after he has beaten up his wife and the family does not want him any longer. I think that the film displays really well the violence in the culture of the Pakistanis and the difficulties of the family members, who want to integrate. This film makes clear, under which bad conditions the women and children must live. Often the women are suppressed as well as the children. In this film it seems sometimes like slavery. And the people, who want to have a normal life, can't do it.
L.T.
The movie East ist East by Damien O'Donnel was set in the year 1961. The movie deals with the problems of immigration and families with different cultures. George Khan is an Pakistani guy who has married an English woman. He loves the pakistani culture and wants the same of his children. Ella, his wife, is an christian woman and wants to her children to be free. But Ella and George have many differences and also many conflicts and arguments. One of this conflicts escalates and George punishes Ella many times. Also his children get punished by George if they don't do what George wants them to do. The children live two lives: one as the father's will and another one as her own will and under their mother's rules. The movie wants to demonstrate the differences between the cultures in one family. You can see that there are many conflicts because the Khan family isn't accepted in the society with the reason that they are different from the others. But in contrast to that the Khan family and first of all George doesn't want to be a part of this society. George wants his children to be Pakistanis and learn all about the Pakistani religion. In my opinion the movie shows very clearly the consequences of a family with different cultures. It takes us to their problems if the parents don't follow the same agendas. But in other single culture families there can be also punishment and violence and so you can see only one example in the movie East is East.
J.S.
The film East is East shows the daily life of a multi-culture family. I think, that's not bad trying to understand such families through watching this movie. It's important to know about and feel for people in our neighborhood, who live in other conditions, above all people who live in a different culture, which causes them trouble, that we don't know anymore and their lives are different from ours. Of course, everyone knows about family arguments, but in those families it's different, the parents have different backgrounds and different perspectives of life. It's not even simple to decide on how to bring up the common children, f.e. in which religion. I think that this movie shows very well the problems of multi-culture families and it makes people think of it. It's illustrated with expressive personalities, especially of the Pakistani culture.
W.R.
The movie East is East is about a multicultural family in Great Britain. The father George is a conservative and strict Pakistani. The mother Ella is an English and Christian woman. Together they have seven children. The children try to live their life like the English people, but their father don't want that. He wants his children to behave like the Pakistani tradition, for example they have to wear special Pakistani clothes or George arranged marriages for his sons. That brings lots of fights into the family and George uses very often violence against the children but also against the mother, because she wants a normal life for her children like their want. This conflicts (about the Pakistani tradition and the way to live like an English) between the father and the rest of the family is the main topic of the film.
I liked the way the movie deals with this difficult problems, families have with different cultures. So, the movie is very interesting and shows the daily life of a Pakistani-English family very realistic.
W.O.
Englisch-Hausaufgabe "East is East" ... a funny and at the same time serious movie about the life and disagreements of a familiy of nine from Salford. Father George, a Pakistani and strict Muslim, trys everything to keep the religious rules and expects the same of the rest of the family. But the kids have got their own ideas of a successful life in which they are strongly supported by their mother Ella. Behind Georges back Meenah and her six brothers take part in Catholic ceremonies, eat "forbidden" food like bacon and enjoy the English lifestyle.
The movie, however, also shows the problems multiculturalism implicates to British society and how different people deal with them.
East is East Review East is East is about the life of a British/Pakistani- family, who lives in Salford in 1971. This family is dominated by the Pakistani father George Khan (Om Puri) , who has a British wife, called Ella (Linda Bassett), and seven children: Nazir (Ian Aspinall) , an homosexual, Abdul (Raji James), Tariq (Jimy Mistry), Manner (Emil Marwa), the artist Saleem (Chris Bisson), who shall be an engineer, the tomboy Meenah (Archie Panjabi) and the little sweet Sajid (Jordan Routledge), who hides himself in his sweaty parka. These children prefer the ways of their mother to the traditional behaviour of their father. The consequence is the upraising of the children against their father, who reacts with violence and aggression against. The film ends with the escalation of the families` problems.
George is proud of being Pakistani and he tries to upraise his children in a traditional muslim way. They shall respect the religion. The conflict is growing with the attempts of the father to arrange marriages for his sons. But the children are more interested in mixed marriages, bacon- sandwiches and the night- time visits in pubs. The eldest son Nazir moves out of the house, filled with anger. He is supposed to marry a Pakistani woman who he has never seen before. Furthermore the double- marriage of Tariq and Abdul burst. Only Maneer seems to respect the religion. Ella has a calming influence, but she suffers under her violent husband. Nevertheless, she is torn between her love for George and her love for her children, who she tries to protect nearly every time.
So the viewer can see how the film deals with serious aspects, but however, it is a comedy and one has to laugh a lot! I think the film- remake of East is East is a success- also because of the stylistic film elements like music (sing alongs), interesting camera angles and movement as well as the fact that East is East is a personal movie of the screenwriter Ayub Khan- Din. The play is based on his own life and experiences growing up in multicultural, working- class background: He is also originally from Salford and the parents are a true reflection of his own parents. Furthermore, he is the youngest son Sajid.
Ayub Khan- din had to leave school at the age of 16 and worked as a hairdresser. But he dreamed of becoming a screenwriter. At first, he tries to become an actor, but he had a lot of problems because of his colour. Finally East is East was of crucial importance for his success as screenwriter. He made this film because he wanted to understand his past. Ayub Khan- Din received criticism from traditional members of the Asian society because they interpreted this movie as an attack of the Pakistani cultures. Ayub Khan- Dib rejected this reproach by saying that he portrays his father, who isnt a typical Pakistani. So he wasnt writing about Pakistani families in general.
At first sight the film can be strange and one can be shocked. So the viewer will have to be motivated to work with it. But then one finds out that the film deals with the loss of cultural identity, the complicated definition of home for the second generation of immigrants, the rebellion against the father, the clash of culture and in general the problems of immigration. Nevertheless, it is an emotional film. Furthermore it shows that a woman can be the real boss in a family without being feministic. Besides the actors provoke sympathy and pity. I think that the end, which I like, is very important: the children and the mother stick together. After a dispute, Ella makes clear that one can negate everything- but not the own family.
So, do you like that? Do you like comedies with a hint of tragic? Then: take some time and watch the film. It is funny and you probably dont have to work with it: watch it and have fun!
S. Will
Review about ?East is East? The movie East is East written by Ayub Khan-Din and directed by Damien O'Donnel is a British tragicomedy released in 1999. The story of the flim is about clash of culture in Great Britain.
George Khan (Om Puri) immigrated to England in 1937. Twenty years later he lives in Salford had married Ella (Linda Bassett), has six sons, one daughter and a fish and chips shop. The conflict of this story arises when George wants his eldest son Nazir to marry a Pakistani and Nazir escapes from the altar to London to get happy with a man. George could only cope with it when he says that Nazir is dead for him. Henceforth George controls his children stronger and wants them to cultivate the old Pakistani traditions but all his children don't care for it. However the highlight of conflict develops when George arranges the marriage for his two sons Tariq (Jimi Mistry) and Abdul (Raji James). So it is portrayed the clash of George who is conscious in his traditions and his children which want to live a normal British live with a normal British value system.
As a result I would recommend to watch this movie because it's fascinating how this tragic story is realised with so much humour so that the interplay of tragic and comedy take you in a ban.
East is East "East is East" is introducing an interesting "half breed" family, the Khans, and the circumstances they have to cope with living in England in the seventies.
The Pakistani George Khan (Om Puri), who has migrated to Britain 25 years ago, is the father and the head of the family. He, his British wife Ella (Linda Bassett) and their five sons and one daughter are living in Salford in a poor district. Their seventh child, Nazir (Ian Aspinall), doesn't belong to the family anymore as he dumped his arranged and not jet married wife on their weeding day because of having a preference for men ? so every member of the family excluding Nazir's mother and his siblings acts as if he'd never exist. Being a firm believer in Islam George sets great value upon arranged marriages, obedience to him, family's honour, arranged marriages again and especially obedience to him. Additionally he is the one who decides what's supposed to do, at least he thinks so. This special family welfare causes a lot of trouble as his children wish for living an own life.
According to that "East is East" is showing the very peculiar everyday life of a British Pakistani family; the discussions about arranged marriages, circumcisions, sexuality or too short skirts, the violence in a family, the native neighbourhood bringing odium on this family, the difficulty of being assumed by the British society and the problem of being accepted by the Pakistanis. These situations are handled by widely different characters. This facilitates to identify with one of those personalities.
Ella has to manage everything. She hangs together the family protecting the children against George calming her husband down.
George is the boss who is allowed to commend his family without a need of doing anything himself. He easily becomes aggressive. Moreover he is the one brings violence in this family. George tries to educate his children in a traditional Pakistani way by hook or by crook. As Ayub Kahn-Din, the screenwriter of "East is East", creates this character by orientating himself by his own father George has a very authentic personality.
Another authentic character is the youngest child Sajid. He personates Ayub Kahn-Din during his childhood. Always wearing his parka hiding behind the hood he defends himself from the clash in his family.
This movie illustrates several characters, their developments and even a change in their role, different ways to deal with extreme situations (for instance violence in a family) and the generation conflict. Furthermore it caricatures long-established gender roles. Not only amusement that is caused by creating grotesque situations and using recurring jokes but also empathy evoked by telling an affecting story that is amplified by the apposite use of effective settings of a camera and music that stresses the atmosphere are very essential elements of this movie. Humour and tragic are so much connected that the unexpected turns of the atmosphere influences an abrupt changing of the viewer?s mood.
Concluding "East is East" is a serious and tragic movie as well as a humorous one transmitting an important message.
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