Review of "The Hidden Half "
The film "The Hidden Half" was an interesting showing of how Middle Eastern women are treated in Iran; especially since it was made by a director that is an Iranian women. Besides the romance plot which doesn't seem as important in the understanding of Iranian women, the sub plots and contexts really showed how the women are nowhere near being on equal grounds as men.
Right off the bat, when Fereshteh's husband believes that the case he was about to take on was unimportant because it was a women, it showed how many men thought at the time. The movie tries to show defiance to that, especially when Fereshteh tries to convince her husband to think better of women with her story, to attempt to convince him to take the case seriously and listen to the women's side of the story when everyone else was against her.
All the sub plots of defiance were interesting also. Throughout the movie, the women were handing out fliers, despite all the people that were against them. This movie showed clearly how controlling the Iranian population was of women. Even though the the gang that was after them every time seemed a little over dramatized, I still believe it was a good showing of how women would be treated for being defiant. All in all, it was a good move for the subject that it was presenting; although it got boring at a lot of points due to the heavy focus on the generic romance plot.
-Mitchel Hamilton
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