Movie: Wadjda directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour
This movie tells the story of a young girl growing up in Saudi Arabia and how she defies her society’s expectations and rules for females, when she decides to raise the money she needs, to buy the bike she desires to own and ride. The movie provides interesting insight into the daily life of a typical Saudi girl, her mother and her mother’s friends, although I suspect that it is only telling the story from one angle and thus portrays all the negatives and restrictions of daily life in Saudi for females, without giving us any of the positives. Well worth watching for those of us who did not know a lot about how life could be for girls growing up in a patriarchal Islamic culture like Saudi. (There are no objectionable sexual or violent scenes and the movie contains no bad language)
(Reviewed by Trisha N. Co.Roscommon)