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My Review--I would appreciate any feedback


http://www.chrisandthemovies.com/2013/11/wadjda.html

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Good for you, Chris. Nice read. I've just launched my brand new movie site. I'll leave a link to it here and a link for you to subscribe to my fb page. Hope you'll follow me, because I'm going to subscribe to yours. We need all the supporters we can get, one reader at a time. My review of this movie will be coming very shortly.

It is frowned upon within the critic community to inject ourselves into our reviews. I think that's a pile of b.s.

The way you added your personal experiences in the review is welcome by me. I want to know that an actual person saw the movie and that it affected them in whatever way it affected them. Like Roger Ebert often pointed out, movies are subjective to our own experiences. It's why we should write in the first person always, never "one". I hate that. "One feels as though blah blah blah". You write in first person and I applaud that.

It's a terrific movie and a must-see. The surprising thing about it is that it shows us the cracks in the Saudi culture as modernity comes rushing in.

I think you meant to write stands "up" for herself, not stands for herself. But whatever. Small quibble.

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great review

interesting that you live in Saudi, are you still there?

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