My wife made me watch a wonderful movie with her yesterday.
My wife loves movies; I'm sort of "so-so" on watching movies; I generally refuse to watch horror movies, disaster movies, and the like.
(My wife likes to watch movies that put her to sleep, at least after the sixth or seventh time she's seen them. It's a joke in our family.)
We had some rare time alone together to enjoy one another yesterday, and she insisted I watch a movie with her, a romantic comedy.
It was a wonderful film, touching in a fairly profound way on the cultural clashes that can take place in immigrant communities with the American culture. (My father-in-law experienced this as he was first generation Italian American, something that had effects on my marriage to a second generation half Italian American.)
This film was particularly poignant because it was made before the age of the racist idiot "pResident" in the White House, because the immigrant culture in question was Islamic, Pakistani in fact.
It was a very sweet and in someways profound romantic comedy. It is also a true story, and if you watch it on DVD it is definitely worth watching the extra features.
This is the movie in question:
The Big Sick
The biggest star in it is Holly Hunter, and she does an outstanding job. In the role she plays, mother of the native American in the love object in the film, her character is also dealing with a cultural clash in her marriage, a clash between a right wing North Carolina culture with the New York culture of her husband.
A lovely film.
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