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Bangladesh - England - Forced
Marriage - Cultural Contrasts - A Woman's Search
Film Segment: http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=f8PKMvlUUzQ
BRICK LANE (2007)
Directed
by Sarah Gavron
Based
on the book by Monica Ali
Nazneen's
life is turned upside down at the tender age of seventeen. Forced into an
arranged marriage to an older man, she exchanges her Bangladeshi village home
for a block of flats in London's East End. In this new world, pining for her
home and her sister, she struggles to make sense of her existence -- and to
do her duty to her husband. A man of inflated ideas, he sorely tests her
compliance. Told from birth that she must not fight her fate, Nazneen submits,
devoting her life to raising her family and slapping down her demons of
discontent. Until the day that Karim, a hot-headed local man, bursts into her
life.
Against
a background of escalating racial tension, they embark on an affair that
finally forces Nazneen to take control of her life. Set in multicultural
Britain, Brick Lane is a truly contemporary story of love, cultural difference,
and ultimately, the strength of the human spirit.
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