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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 361486" data-attributes="member: 33"><p><strong>Polite Society (2023)</strong></p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.universalpictures.co.uk/tl_files/content/movies/polite_society/posters/01.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 348px" /></p><p></p><p>This film starts out promisingly telling a story of 2 British South Asian girls who have dreams of being and artist and a stunt women only for the older sister to abandon her plans after her parents and the parents of a young doctor arrange for their children to meet with the aim of getting married. This sets up various lines of conflict in the family which would have been interesting to explore but the film then takes and unexpected swerve and becomes almost surreal and totally unbelievable. There is no build up to this so the change in direction is quite jarring It is a comedy so I wouldn't have minded this twist had it been funny or lead to humorous events later on in the film but that didn't happen. It has a Bollywood feel at times but even that can't save this film. It is silly and ridiculous but also sweet and touching so it's not all bad.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 361486, member: 33"] [B]Polite Society (2023)[/B] [IMG width="348px"]https://www.universalpictures.co.uk/tl_files/content/movies/polite_society/posters/01.jpg[/IMG] This film starts out promisingly telling a story of 2 British South Asian girls who have dreams of being and artist and a stunt women only for the older sister to abandon her plans after her parents and the parents of a young doctor arrange for their children to meet with the aim of getting married. This sets up various lines of conflict in the family which would have been interesting to explore but the film then takes and unexpected swerve and becomes almost surreal and totally unbelievable. There is no build up to this so the change in direction is quite jarring It is a comedy so I wouldn't have minded this twist had it been funny or lead to humorous events later on in the film but that didn't happen. It has a Bollywood feel at times but even that can't save this film. It is silly and ridiculous but also sweet and touching so it's not all bad. [/QUOTE]
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