Review of Brick Lane (2007) by Alysia V — 31 May 2010

This movie was a bit uneventful and slow for my tastes. I certainly do not mind a slow moving film, but this movie just never really captured me. The flashback scenes of rural India were my favorite part of the film and were truly beautiful and peaceful.

I did also feel that the lead actress did a good job of expressing her emotions with very few words. I felt that perhaps the main woman in this movie over-glamourized her past in India and towards the end of the movie, came to realize that perhaps life back home was not everything she remembered it to be.

I was disappointed, though, when, in the end, she made the decision to stay in England rather than return to India with her husband. I would've preferred having seen her go with him. The transformation we see in the husband was something I liked about this movie, and I did really love when she was talking about the different types of love and how the one she had with her husband was one that grew more and more over time, where as the other was just a temporary one that comes out of nowhere but also quickly fades.

Beautiful culture and outfits and Indian scenery in this movie, but as a whole, it just did not capture me.