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What Cultural/Family Obstacles?

posted 15 years ago by arabianangelu
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This movie made it the biggest deal that she's Indian and that her family would not let her marry a white guy and yet...she makes out with the weird white blind guy in her parents restaurant, in front of her fiance, and in front of the entire Indian community and they just say "awwww."

How is it supposed to be believable that she was minutes away from marrying someone she didn't love, barely liked, drop her hopes for medical school, stay home and have babies because her parents would sooooooo not accept her alternative choices?! The seemed like they had no problems with it when they were dancing up a storm in the end.

This movie would have been a lot better if they had cut the whole Indian shtick out and just made the other girl engaged and too weak to break it off...hell keep her Indian, just don't make the family thing an issue when it's not.

...oh and anyone think this was a bit much for PG13 at times?

[–] enfanterrible 14 years ago

Essentially a "comedy", most of the female characters were exaggerated in this movie. Remember Danny's unsuccessful attempts at "blind dating"?

It's more like they needed to hook him up with a "normal girl" so they couldn't make her character exaggerated. So they exaggerated her family/cultural issues instead.

The impression I got from watching this movie, Liza's family just wanted her to be happy. Statistically most Asian immigrants in western countries still prefer to marry off their children in their own community. So I do not blame Liza's parents for taking the same route. They certainly loved and supported their daughter. Liza's dad even took a stand for his daughter when her father-in-law-to-be complained she did not respect her elders. It's true her parents had their own ideas about what would be best for her. But they never came across as inflexible. Liza's mom even admitted to dating an American guy before marrying her dad.

In fact it seemed like her parents were more concerned about finding a suitable groom for her within the community (in short supply of course) and did not want her to do anything to offend her marriage prospects within the community. Word of mouth from angry in-law wannabes can play spoilsport in certain cultures. Liza did not want her father to be disgraced in her community.

And Liza's father certainly loved his daughter. The parental reprimand she feared was more in her own mind. All she needed to do was tell her father. But she kept it all bottled up until Danny came looking for her at the curry restaurant.