Happy Saturday! We get to have a nice coffee and breakfast morning and watch a nice movie together.
Woo! Indie Lesbian Wrestling Rom-Com with Shabanaji! Signature Move, it’s on youtube and Prime and places, and it’s fairly short. I say that because I haven’t seen it yet so if it’s bad, you won’t be unhappy for that long.
At 8:30am Chicago time, I will put up an “And PLAY” comment on this post and we will all comment along from there!
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Two humans kissing underneath wrestling masks, it can’t be that bad! Right?
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And Chicago Film Project! Get ready for me to say “I’ve been there” a lot
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And PLAY!
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Here 🙂 hi everyone!
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Hi!
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OMG! It’s Al Mansoor! The guy from Al Mansoor is in this!!!! and the Paan dude at Patel’s! This is amazing, this is my life in one montage.
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I was going to ask if you recognize your city?
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Oh, I take it these are places/people in Chicagoland?
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It’s the desi neighborhood, where I’ve spent half my adult life. Awwwwww.
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Here : )
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Phone tucked into headscarf to hold it in place. . . I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t pulled that trick ( ;
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Well, I already love our heroine
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Love the khatt-style Urdu title.
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She doesn’t move. Doesn’t her butt hurt after sitting in one spot for so long?
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Wait, what? Is she making people volunteer to be her wrestling practice people?
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Her new client PAYS her in wrestling classes. I only caught this because I read the synopsis.
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That makes more sense ( ; Thanks!
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LOL, my dad was a wrestler for years, and my mom was a boxer. I assure you they have dummies for that!
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She’s right. Mexican mangoes suck ) :
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I’m fairly certain the only mangoes I can buy come from Mexico.
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I live in a Brazilian neighborhood. At our grocery we mostly get the honking big red and green Mexican ones which are so fibrous, but occasionally they import the orange types from Vietnam or Thailand.
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Every year at mango season, I run across something about how America only gets one of dozens of mango varieties and we don’t know what we are missing. Gives me seroius FOMO.
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“I’d prefer to be out” I think there’s a double meaning there……
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I love Shabana but, at least in this film, I am so glad she is not my mother. GET OUT OF THE HOUSE
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Ah hah – the Indian/Pakistani vs. American culture clash. I too simply cannot believe in love at first sight!
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Of course right after that love at first conversation, she actually falls in love at first sight.
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Oh, they are gonna fall in love!!!!!!
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The 10 year old is surprised that Chicago isn’t covered in snow.
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It’s true, it is a shock eveyr year when that happens.
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I wouldn’t think there would be a big moped culture in Chicago just because of how much snow/ice you-all get, but perhaps she’s hardier than I am.
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There actually is! I know a couple of people who have mopeds. The streets are maintained really well for cars which also works for mopeds.
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Cool! My aunt in KC (milder flavor of midwestern weather) used to drive a moped, but she put it away as soon as it started freezing.
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There’s a serious bike culture where too, I know lots of people who bike year round. And tlel you about it because they are so proud of themselves.
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I bet you would be proud of yourself for biking through a blizzard too!
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Yes, but would I talk about it allllllllllllll the time while everyone around me rolled theri eyes? No!
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Oof. I’ve got a bike but I’m terrified to ride it as soon as the ice comes out!
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Oh woman – own your sexuality, your uncomfortableness is so uncomfortable to see!
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But now she ahs this super cute girl who is into her and will help!
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Dumb Lesbian Syndrome. It’s a real thing and I’ve suffered from it ( ;
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So, this is her remembering the conversations she used to have when her daughter was home more?
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You mean the toast talk in the background?
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Yeah, that’s what I thought it was?
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Oh, I had presumed she was just overhearing that from the TV. Though I guess they’ve been subbing the TV dialogue sometimes and sometimes not.
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Aw, Shabana. Just like you loved your husband, let your daughter follow her heart and be happy!
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Honestly I’m thinking I’m watching a very unfun bit about a woman in grief. Grief is real, and kinda boring.
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It is kind of nice contrasting it with her daughter nagging her to leave the house. She’s not just stubborn and old and scared, she’s grieving.
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This moved so fast! And now what is she gonna tell her Mom about being out all night? I’m worried.
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Looking up the main actress because she is doing a really good job
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All that moped-ing has given her a very uneven tan ( ;
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That’s not Urdu, captions!
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Talking about if being a Lesbian is accepted in Pakistani culture the 10 year old is going off on all the things that are wrong with the culture from his perspective. “They throw acid on people’s faces, they make people cover their faces, they force people to marry people they don’t even know…” Flipping it he thinks they wouldn’t like our culture because we’re not forced to marry and it is acceptable to be Gay, but ultimately he gives up and says “I don’t know I’m not a part of their culture”.
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I think the 10 year old should be the new ambassador to Pakistan from the US. Just lay it out for them, everything that is wrong.
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Putting on my Chicago hat, so far the most unbelievable part is that they would be at the same bar. The Mexican neighborhood is way far from the desi neighborhood. But maybe it’s because they are both trying to get away from themselves so they went really far to get to a neutral ground bar?
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I like the “neutral ground” theory.
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Watching Mom I am just filled with sadness.
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Shabana is too good. AS in, when she’s in a movie you end up caring about her character more than everyone else event hough she isn’t the lead.
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I got really upset when she first wiped off her lipstick, because I thought she was trying to hide it from the daughter. Made me relieved when she was just doing wudu.
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Yeah, I saw it as “I am putting on lipstick as part of pretending that my husband is still alive and I am getting pretty for him”. Not shame exactly, but a secret fantasy.
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10 year old can understand the Spanish so he likes this part.
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Harrumph, look at the disappointing green-and-red mangoes on their table.
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This is cute, I like them, I want them to fall in love.
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That bookstore scene was so uncomfortable the seven year old declared the actors drunk.
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LOL!
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Uncomfortable like poorly acted, or like “people are afraid to admit feelings and are bad at stuff”?
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like people don’t even know their own feelings.
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Oh, okay, our heroine is one of the writers. That’s what it felt like! I’m glad to know I was right.
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Learning how to wrestle DOES NOT look like fun.
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WHAT was she squezzing into her mouth?
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Harami toothpaste!
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REBEL! REBEL AND HAVE THE PIG TOOTHPASTE!
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By most standards, it shouldn’t matter if it has haram ingredients, since you don’t actually eat toothpaste ( ;
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10 year old DID NOT KNOW that Alma means soul.
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I’m surprised at the translation for “Zaynab.” I figured it was the same as the Arabic name, which means “olive” (like the fruit).
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That is how I talk to spiders 😀
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Why even bother getting dressed if you never leave the house? Go full on pajama depression mode.
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It seems like she still does salat, which you’re supposed to be (reasonably) dressed for.
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WEll, it is comfy Salwar type clothes.
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But they are in love! They are so cute! They should have a relationship!!!!
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This is a lot of whiplash for my brain to switch back and forth between Hindustani and Spanish.
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“Why can’t you just let your daughter be gay?” – 7 year old.
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GOOD POINT 7 YEAR OLD!!!!!
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Your kids are very smart!
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oooh ouch – not in this for a relationship – when they are so CLEARLY in a relationship. Humans are too weird.
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Love that they have the conversation while brushing teeth together int he most relationshipy way ever.
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Awwwwww, Zaynab wants a big wedding secretly! Do the big wedding, do the big proposal, go for it.
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Seeing her in the store makes me feel like putting my fancy Kurta on.
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Are gyms always so dark?
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I have no idea
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To go by the example of boxing gyms, no.
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There’s a big Egyptian cultural festival up in NH that I’m going to tomorrow. I anticipate this level of luxurious shopping ( ;
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I feel bad for Shabana being left home alone, but then on the other hand, she should go out and make connections beyond her daughter.
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Doradas!!! Omg, now I’m craving good norteno food.
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