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good movie but another end would had been better


hi,

i loved the movie, it is a little drama-comedy, and not a comedy-drame.
the concept of "upgradind" each day, one by one reminds me another film with james belushi..i don't remind the title.

but, as it is a very cultural movie, the end is a little "too easy" : a simple love story !

i would prefer a tragedy and i thought it would have come :
in the movie, the woman doctor was been replaced by another male one.
and we saw her (with cries and sad face). unti lthe end, we did not know why.

so, i imagined she will be killed in public or something like that because of what the taxi driver told us with joking (been a woman alone with male patient...etc).

maybe the end would have be another day, where the main caracter was driven again in the city, around that place where they killed the people and he would assist to her public death .

what about that alt end ? no happy ending, just un-exepected one but a natural culture one... i already that kind of end in old chinese movie where culture is mastering all relation between females and men.

so as muslims are more strict than asian ones, i would imagine that kind of end for the movie, specially in that country.

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I can't see that for this movie. It's rather sweet and even silly all the way through, what with the sympathetic daughter, the broken chairs, the Saudi driver, and many other small touches. I like a drama and a tragedy, too, but this movie is committed 100% to something that, yeah, is a bit dull, but I liked it. For that matter, Tom Hanks is always a bit dull, but I like him. You're talking a totally different, more serious film to make a negative melodramatic ending palatable.

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The ending wasn't what I thought it would be either, but I'm not all that disappointed. A more serious ending, like you're imagining, would turn the movie into something else entirely.
If there was a point the writer was trying to make about some Saudi women (and to some extent alcohol consumption as well) within what we identify and label as an oppressive culture, I imagine it was probably that some take risks and that some are successful in forging beyond boundaries (socially and professionally), but all do so with a tremendous amount of precaution and at their own peril.

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