Happy Saturday! I got to sleep allllllllllllll the way to 8am today. And now I get to watch this lovely thing with you lovely people, and drive around doing errands, and then come home and have dinner with The Upstairs People. Oh, and if everyone ends up being too busy to come, I will give it 15 minutes for someone to join and then quit posting comments.
Thank You For Coming
Now I’m nervous about picking this movie! What if y’all hate it? But then, sometimes the best watchalongs are the ones where we hate the movie.
At 8am I will put up an “and PLAY” comment and then we can all just keep commenting along from there! If you join late, just fast forward to however many minutes past 8am Chicago time it is.
dontcallitbollywood 
Very intrigued to learn what this ~good thing~ will be.
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Yes, surely this will not cause Rabeya any more public humiliation >.>
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At least she’s graduating!!!! She can ride out the last few weeks with pride I guess?
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Okay, so the boy was expelled, that’s good. That makes me feel a little better. She should have been given compassionate leave and counseling and bullying protection and so on, but at least there’s a worse punishment for him. Well, on paper worse. Being “allowed” to still go to school and be laughed at every day isn’t great.
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Okay, now Rabeya is giving a good speech and her Mom should shut up and let her talk.
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I like this ending.
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I’m so so so happy she didn’t sleep with her best friend’s husband.
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This ending is ridiculous and over the top, but doesn’t make me angry. Except for the bit where her friends aren’t into it. I like Rabeya saying she did nothing wrong, and I like the kids feeling like they are sick of just following the rules.
Would have been better as a fantasy sequence though. Go smaller, just have her say it to Rabeya and Rabeya say “I did nothing wrong”, and the rest of it is in her head.
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Oh, that would have been a nice fix. We could have returned to the White World where Bhumi had her earlier fantasy.
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I liked the reality of it.
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Three women living happily together, who can give themselves their own orgasms.
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Yupp. As I said. The framework for a good movie is there. And then it gets derailed and lands meh fine. But everything about the friends piss me off. They all think the worst of each other. And the stupid mom in glasses sucks. Stupid movie. I hate when movies have potential and then a scene completely pulls me out and then I’m even more annoyed because it could have easily been a good movie is Rhea had just exerted more control.
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Thank you-all for making the watchalong a fun place, friends!
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Thank you for the watch a long. I liked the movie, though I probably wouldnt’ have sat through it if it weren’t for the watch a long. But I no longer blame the movies for that.
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In this case, I think you can blame the movie! It wasn’t as fast-paced and clever as it needed to be, I would have been distracted if it weren’t for the watchalong.
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Hmm. I hate the teenage sex tape revenge porn storyline, because it immediately takes the film from relatable small stakes to big stakes (both in terms of how HORRIBLE it is to Rabiyah, and that this is a national story instead of just high school local gossip). I also hate that the friends react in stereotypical Mad Woman way instead of touching Sad Woman. That’s actual plot problems.
In presentation problems, the resolution is okay (Bhumi pointing out that women are trained to constantly apologize for just existing, and Rabiyeh realizing she is a good person and did nothing wrong), but the other the top riot on the school stage is too much and should have been smaller.
So I think I would have made it that Rebiyah’s boyfriend posted a topless photo or something that only made the rounds of the school itself, and that Rebiyah WASN’T expected to apologize but instead was giving her speech as planned but had decided to apologize at the start out of her own guilt. And I would have made the friends more disappointed than angry, frustrated that Bhumi’s wild life was affecting their child/marriage. And thent he ending would have the same beats, but be presented better. Bhumi pulls Rabiyah aside and gives her a speech just for her to make her feel better, and Rabiyah gives her graduation speech with a comment about how she is proud of everything she did in high school and should be allowed to make mistakes and learn from them.
Besides that, I think it all works! She was marrying because she thought she had to, she was looking for the magical sex partner because she assumed there was one, and in the end that blindness to what was right in front of her almost destroyed her life.
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