Miral Movie Review
Miral Movie Review
Miral Movie Review
Miral was ab initio rated R by the MPAA for "some extreme content including a intimate ravishment." Later, however, it was reclassified to PG-13 for "thematic material, and some violent subject including a sexual assault" after an appeal of the R rating by the Weinstein Company.
A history of Hind Husseini's campaign to establish an orphanage in Jerusalem afterward the 1948 ArabIsraeli War and the establishment of the state of Israel.
Jerusalem, 1948. On her way to work, Hind Husseini (Hiam Abbass) comes across 55 motherless children in the street. She gets them home to make them food and shelter. Inside six months, 55 had grown to almost 2,000, and the Dar Al-Tifel Institute was born.
In 1978, at the age of 7, Miral (Freida Pinto) was sent to the Institute by her father following her mother's decease. Brought up safely inside the Institute's walls, she is nave to the troubles that surround her. And So, in 1988, at the age of 17, she is appointed to teach at a refugee camp where she is awoke to the reality of the Palestinian refugees. When she falls for Hani, a policy-making proactive, she finds herself torn between the First Intifada of her individuals and Mama Hind's belief that teaching is the road to serenity.
Schnabel discovered that the project had relevance for his own household history; "Coming from my background, as an American Jewish person whose mother was chairwoman of Hadassah the Women's Zionist Organisation of America in 1948, I figured I was a pretty good person to try to say the story of the strange side of meat.
User Reviews:
This is a film by Julian Schnabel who directed the diving bell and the butterfly and for anyone who's saw that,you know how good it is so i had big expectations.It has small parts from Vanessa Redgrave(a Palestinian freedom activist in reality),William Dafoe(his roster of films that he's involved in is incredible,big respect for him)and then the only other face you'll know is Alexander Siddig as Miral's father if you ever watched star trek voyager.Hiam Abbass who plays Hind Hussaini i recognize from a great Israeli film i saw called lemon tree about the conflict as well. The film is based on a true story from a autobiographical book by Rula Jubreal and centered around the Palestine/Israel conflict between 1948 when Israel is created,the six day war period in 1967 and then the agreement between Israel and PLO in 1994. A big part of the story is focused on the girls school for Palestinian orphans(which still exists today)which was opened by Hind Hussain in the 40s after taking in orphaned kids after a bombing raid by Israeli's,and it is where Miral(played by Frieda Pinto),the main focus of the story ends up after a troubled childhood that leads her father to bring her there.It then takes us through into her teens when she starts to have indecisive thoughts on whether to take to violent route or peaceful route after being introduced to this by a PLO fighter and falling in love with him.She then gets introduced to Israelis when she moves in with her auntie who's son is going out with a Israeli and begins to realize that they are not all out to wipe out Palestinians. Throughout this film you are given good insight into both sides of the coin and what the director has achieved,for me,is a very balanced view and does not try to make it all roses in his method of showing cross community (the scene where her cousin introduces his Israeli girlfriend to his mother is not comfortable,likewise when Miral is introduced to the Israeli girls father).It's a very mature take on the conflict and gets the message across that dialog and a two state solution is the only answer at this time.Tie in with this,great camera-work,great settings,informative historical snapshots from the past,great acting all round and expertly crafted filming that show harrowing scenes but still keeping it a 12a,you have a really important film. This is great to see from a US director and i hope it reaches a big audience(a lot of it is in English)for as much coverage this conflict gets,it's often biased in one manner or another.Another great achievement for Julian Schnabel.
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