Literary HackI Can't Think Straight
April 15th 2009 09:13
Last month, I covered the 33rd Cleveland International Film Festival. I saw over twenty films and bought copies of the ones that I found either enjoyable or emotionally appealing. I especially liked the British romantic comedy, I Cant Think Straight.
Unlike many of my peers, I find a lot of romantic comedies very entertaining. This is because the criteria are already in place. You have your romantic part, which is when strangers meet in a random situation, fall for each other, then they usually end up being thrust into a precocious situation. There comic aspect of the film is what I find especially appealing because I believe that if you took most relationships that are just developing into their respective romantic stages, we would often laugh at the things we do and the way we go about them. The movie I Cant Think Straight is no different.
The movie has the random meeting, and the couple did fall for each other. Only this romantic comedy differed than any I had ever seen before; the difficult situation was that they were both female. The movie was about the difficult of same-sex romances and how they are accepted by society, and more importantly, the lovers families. Because the movie was set in the Middle East, with one girl being Jordanian and the other being a Palestinian, the relationship was extremely unaccepted. I expected some humor in the movie, but I was surprised that there were so many funny lines in the movie. The families are very naive about each other and of other cultures and well as homosexuality which creates some incredibly funny lines in the movie.
Shamim Sarif does an excellent job with his second feature film (The World Unseen), as he beautifully shows both the intense emotion and incredible predicaments that the main characters must go through to be with each other. I Cant Think Straight is one of the funniest movies I saw at the film fest and is chalk full of one-liners sure to entertain its audience for every one of its eighty-two minutes.
Unlike many of my peers, I find a lot of romantic comedies very entertaining. This is because the criteria are already in place. You have your romantic part, which is when strangers meet in a random situation, fall for each other, then they usually end up being thrust into a precocious situation. There comic aspect of the film is what I find especially appealing because I believe that if you took most relationships that are just developing into their respective romantic stages, we would often laugh at the things we do and the way we go about them. The movie I Cant Think Straight is no different.
The movie has the random meeting, and the couple did fall for each other. Only this romantic comedy differed than any I had ever seen before; the difficult situation was that they were both female. The movie was about the difficult of same-sex romances and how they are accepted by society, and more importantly, the lovers families. Because the movie was set in the Middle East, with one girl being Jordanian and the other being a Palestinian, the relationship was extremely unaccepted. I expected some humor in the movie, but I was surprised that there were so many funny lines in the movie. The families are very naive about each other and of other cultures and well as homosexuality which creates some incredibly funny lines in the movie.
Shamim Sarif does an excellent job with his second feature film (The World Unseen), as he beautifully shows both the intense emotion and incredible predicaments that the main characters must go through to be with each other. I Cant Think Straight is one of the funniest movies I saw at the film fest and is chalk full of one-liners sure to entertain its audience for every one of its eighty-two minutes.
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