East Is East - Movie Review

East is East was filmed in 1999, and was a very controversial film that dealt with a very complex and dysfunctional family. To begin, this family had many cultural differences of Pakistani and British, which complicated situations between the family and even society. Many conflicts the family dealt with consisted of lack of communication and peer pressures of society.

This family was very dysfunctional, just for that fact that there was an immense lack of communication and understanding involved. The father being Pakistani had many cultural traditions that he wanted to instill in his children, even though they were raised in a British environment. All of his children were modernized, and had adapted to many modern day values and views. However, even though these children were half Pakistani, they considered themselves British, which caused many disputes between them and the father. This was a prime example of how the family suffered from deficit in communication, and the fact that it’s is practically impossible to be behave in a civilized manner. Another example of this is when the father wanted to have his sons married off to women of his choice, and the sons disagreed strongly, the oldest son even ran away to be rid of his fathers’ ways. The father’s stubborn attitude and vulgar behaviour are what caused many deficiencies in the family and with his wife. The communication deficiencies were so deep rooted to the point that abuse became a part of the picture. The amount of frustration for the father lead to extreme circumstances and created a very tense environment for everyone, and his stubbornness really gave him a jaded view of how life was meant to be.

However, aside from those difficulties, the family was just struggling with fitting into society, and too concerned about their reputation. The father was very interested in having his children learn his language and religion, and even enrolled them in a Sunday school with other children to have them in that religious environment. Just because of the fact that his children were half British, he already had “his people” give him a hard time with being uninviting to his