I watched this film over the weekend and am still trying to decide about it. It could have been the film or it could have been that I started watching it after the family had already gone to bed (about 11:30pm...and for a family guy, that is getting late).
As the synopsis on Spout suggests, this film is about the "tenuous relationship between Caucasians and Muslims in post-9/11 America"...a potentially potent topic. It is a story about trust and what can happen if is it given too freely...or not at all. Although the acting in the film was first class (starring Robin Wright Penn, Abdel Kechiche and Sandra Oh) I still remain neutral on it. Why? I didn't see the film telling a new story. It is about overt aggression (although in the guise, at least initially, of help and concern...which makes it all the more overt). I was really hoping to see something more subtle, and in that subtly, something a little more insidious...which may in the end be more representative of our current state of affairs.
Than again...maybe I was too tired when I watched it. Check it out for yourself.
Link: Sorry, Haters (2005).
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