Miral – CATCH IT (B-) The story begins in war-torn Jerusalem in 1948 when Hind Husseini (HIAM ABBASS) opens an orphanage for refugee children that quickly becomes home to 2000 orphans. One of the children is seventeen year old Miral (FRIEDA PINTO, Slumdog Millionaire) who arrived at the orphanage 10 years earlier, following her mother's tragic death. On the cusp of the Intifada resistance, Miral is assigned to teach at a refugee camp where she falls for a fervent political activist, Hani (OMAR METWALLY, Munich, Rendition) and finds herself in a personal battle that mirrors the greater dilemma around her: to fight like those before her or follow Mama Hind's defiant belief that education will pave a road to peace. (RT) First of all it's nice to see finally movies about Palestinian' prospective after Paradise NOW on international level. The Jews may have suffered during World War II but how can justify themselves by doing the same thing in Palestine and as they did in Bosnia. It's defiantly a nice attempt but the movie is not as effective as suppose to be. The movie could never determine which woman story they want to tell. It focuses on one woman and we forget about the other one and her thoughts. Frieda Pinto has done a good job as always, she is really impressive and getting better with each new release. Hiam Abbasss has done a decent job. Cameos by Vanessa Redgrave and William Defoe are nice. Anyways, it's a nice movie about Israelis terrorism on the Palestinian. It's about time world should accept that the situation for Muslims is as worst as as it was for Jews during World War II.
