FILM REVIEW

EAST IS EAST
A group of streapers, a music band, a dancing child and now a "Pakistani" family.What do all these films have in common? They are set in the 70´s and 80´s in low-working class neighborhoods, they depicte the social problems these people face everyday.But, what´s special about "East is East"? In this case the films presents the conflics that emerge in a multiracial and multicultural family living in England.The father is a man who came from Pakistan having absolutely nothing and who became the proud owner of a Fish and Chips shop. Married to an English woman the problems start when he tries to follow his own country´s traditions in marrying their children in the Muslim way... Of course he doesn´t know that they prefer being Christians and that they consider themselves British and no Paks (as they say).
The portrait is a sour one in which they mix the tragedy they all are living when marriages are set and the comic scenes when the children try to cheat their father (the girl playing football with other boys,for example). The story also touches ill-treatment but shown as a cultural tradition.
If you liked "Billy Elliot" and the stuff you´ll pass a good time watching this one.