Arranged

The film arranged was about two women in America that were of different ethnicities that are teachers in an elementary school. It shows the struggles that the two women go through being from eastern countries living in America.

I thought the movie did a good job of showing the relationships between the two different women that were living in America under the rules of their families. How both of them had to go through arranged marriages, and their families were the ones to pick out their suitors. The one family was a lot more accepting of their friendship and allowed the two women to hang out and make school plans together. The other family was not accepting of them being friends and did not allow them to hang out together in the house. The mother mentioned to her daughter when she came over that it was not appropriate for her to be there and that she needed to ask her father for permission. She also stated that people would see her over their and would talk gossip about it.

One part of the film that I found interesting was how they portrayed Americans. For example the showed the role of the American principle who believed in all of the stereotypes and seemed completely ignorant and uneducated about any other culture. Another was when the two teachers were talking and the American boy asked why they were talking to each other, and if they wanted to kill one another. The most interesting part was when they were going around in a circle and the principle asked them to share one interesting/juicy thing about them. Both of the Eastern women talked about their culture as something that was interesting about them. The American woman mentioned how she went topless at the beach over the summer and felt liberated. The film seemed to show the struggles of eastern people in America, but at the same time sterotyped the Americans.