The movie Yasmin" by Kenny Glenaan deals with the issue of Muslims living in Britain and how they are treated after the attacks of 9/11. It is set in a small British town, where Yasmin, the main character of the movie, lives with her father, brother and bogus husband, who she married because her father wanted her to. But still she is a very modern, educated and strong woman with a respectable job and her own car. Her life is good until the events of September 11th shake her world. Suddenly a victim of prejudices and suspicion, she has to fight to keep her family intact as well as somehow get on with her own life too.
Yasmin is very smart and tries to help everyone who asks for it. She acts as a mediator between the Muslim and the British community. Although she belongs to the Muslim community, she is not very religious. Another main character is her brother Nasir who is a small scale drug dealer and the Muezin in the local mosque. He is probably the most tragic character because he is seduced by a fundamentalist preacher to go to a trainings camp in Pakistan and join the Jihad.
I think the director tries to arouse people's awareness about the mistreatment of Muslims that occurred in the post 9/11 time like random police searches and the imprisonment of Muslim men without any just cause. But he also puts the focus on the sublime racism some immigrants have to face everyday at work and the prejudices that keep some people from living peacefully alongside each other. I think this movie could have been set almost everywhere in the western world were Muslim immigrants live, for example in Germany.
I like the movie because it tells a very fascinating story and it also shows the events of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 from a completely different position. Some people forget that not every Muslim is a potential terrorist and that many of them strongly disagree with the opinions and the hatred some fundamentalist lunatics try to spread. I recommend this movie to be shown in schools when discussing the positive and negative aspects of multiculturalism.
Yasmin is very smart and tries to help everyone who asks for it. She acts as a mediator between the Muslim and the British community. Although she belongs to the Muslim community, she is not very religious. Another main character is her brother Nasir who is a small scale drug dealer and the Muezin in the local mosque. He is probably the most tragic character because he is seduced by a fundamentalist preacher to go to a trainings camp in Pakistan and join the Jihad.
I think the director tries to arouse people's awareness about the mistreatment of Muslims that occurred in the post 9/11 time like random police searches and the imprisonment of Muslim men without any just cause. But he also puts the focus on the sublime racism some immigrants have to face everyday at work and the prejudices that keep some people from living peacefully alongside each other. I think this movie could have been set almost everywhere in the western world were Muslim immigrants live, for example in Germany.
I like the movie because it tells a very fascinating story and it also shows the events of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 from a completely different position. Some people forget that not every Muslim is a potential terrorist and that many of them strongly disagree with the opinions and the hatred some fundamentalist lunatics try to spread. I recommend this movie to be shown in schools when discussing the positive and negative aspects of multiculturalism.