City of Life

[Asterix]

Anyone seen the film 'City of Life'? It was on OSN last night.

Quite nice to look at but did nothing other than paint a very stereotypical picture of Dubai, as usual.

[DubaiJohn]

Bugger, that's me in the dog house was supposed to record it for the Mrs.

[Chilli]

Yeah, got the DVD. Thought it was ok, but the Mrs loved it.

[Gentleman Geoff]

I thought it was great to see Dubai on the big screen, but totally agree that the plot had just about every Dubai cliché you could think of.

I thought it was quite remarkable that the censors allowed the scenes of the Emirati kids drinking. Not the sort of thing that generally gets portrayed!

[Hitch78]

There was a scene where the main, er, Brit 'tt', was being a, well, a proper tt as the Indian chap was driving him in his taxi. I have been that man when grumpy/tired/drunk. Unfortunately.

Apart from that I thought it was good, if a bit simplistic and obvious in providing cannon fodder for Daily Mail writers. I'm surprised it didn't get more press in the UK during the downturn.

I thought the Emirati fable weaved into it was a bit obvious too.

[mcbook]

I agree with the general opinion that it was decent but not great. The way the different peoples' stories came together was a little obvious. The movie "Crash" did the same thing a lot more successfully, I think.

[Gentleman Geoff]

How about this instead?

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi696687641/