Hekabe M

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So… yes it had potential and I suppose anything can have potential. About the acting: Chris Hemsworth was his usual quirky self as in the Thor movies but it falls flat within this particular plot. I was not convinced by any of his acting. Miles Teller and Jurnee Smollett were always great throughout but stuck in a genre nobody understands. Shall we laugh or cry or what exactly? In short this movie is stuck in a limbo of two dimensionality attempting to determine what it wants to be when it grows up. Entertaining? Sure why not, as a background flower wallpaper for those that want to watch anything and everything. The dilemmas and ethics in this plot are quite serious but please explore them seriously. There are just some topics that are not funny unless you explicitly explore them as a satire or a critique.

Umma is brilliant. The horror does not come from the scares but from the realization the pain immigrants face in the US. A mother that lost her identity, respect, and ability to cope in a world that rejected and isolated her (MeeWha Alana). That’s the real underlying horror of it all. For her daughter (Sandra Oh) who is also raising a girl ready to go to College and explore her options, the choice must be made; either break from her roots, embrace them or compromise them. The end result is a mixture of breaking away and compromise. The idea that all immigrants find the promised land is simply not true. A lot suffer to adjust and survive and some fail to do so altogether. A stark reminder of the real horrors in life. The ending tries desperately to offer a balance of existence in its compromise but a compromise is always unsatisfying. There is no happy ending just another form of survival and moving on.