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I find it incredible the film's producer would compare atrocities committed by select elements of the allied forces to the German military premeditated agenda. Germany STARTED a worldwide war to rob nations of their resources and launched a genocidal campaign (totaling in the millions) with no military purpose---mass murdering people including women, children and elderly for simply being Jewish, Slavic, sickly, mentally ill, crippled or basically anyone who didn't fit the ridiculous notion of what an "Aryan " race should look like (I find this ironic as Herr Pig Hitler looked anything but Aryan as well as suffered from serious bowel disease with an extreme case of flatulence making him unbearable to be in the same room as per testimony of his generals). The German people loved this maniac and please spare me the lie that most German soldiers, especially within the officer ranks, were unaware The Final Solution was taking place in addition to being willing participants in the systematic looting of nations. If you doubt any of this, one can start with Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. Were there some honorable German soldiers?---sure, "honorable" only once they realized their fearless leader Herr Pig Hitler was completely insane and Germany was doomed to lose the war. Having lost family members to Nazi pigs, I find the film offensive to suggest one should shed a tear for some SS barbarians who were notoriously known for butchering innocent people wholesale. Yeah, let's feel sorry for the bully who threw the first punch for getting his ass handed to him.
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Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
02/08/23
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A powerful multifaceted story of a young Pakistani woman in Britain who not only disapprove of her boyfriend, a Punjabi, but decide to have her killed to save their "honour".
Apart from the girl herself, it is hard to find any goodies in teh film and that makes it tricky to get a handle on.
I'd suggest sticking with it and appreciating its portrayal of a society in violent change.
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
01/27/23
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A young woman goes on the run after being the target of a honour killing
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/10/23
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The film certainly goes to extremes within its setting to get its point across, but at the same time provides a decent enough thriller-drama.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/06/23
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Loved it, some of these critics are idiots
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Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
02/11/23
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"Two people love each other, why can't people be happy for them?
He's Punjabi, Mona.
He's Muslim, Adel.
Yeah, but that ain't how it works."
Occasionally you watch a movie with a rarely used (or abused) topic. No alien creatures threatening to destroy humanity, not another childish story about a post-apocalyptic world with a youngster as a liberator, not again cheap humor in a silly comedy with overstressed eager beaver, not an average action story with muscled guys or a horror with once again an evil spirit being driven out by using medieval rituals to the place where it came from. "Honour" is about honor killings.
Despite our modern society this ancient use is still applicable in some cultures. Especially in the Muslim communities they sometimes fall back on this custom. Mostly the targeted persons are those who ashamed their family and, believe it or not, these mad acts are justified by certain laws of Islam. In some countries the majority of perpetrators go unpunished like in Pakistan. It's a despicable thought that there are hundreds of women being killed each year because they have violated the family honor. And that's the starting point of this film.
"Honour" is a gray and depressing impression of the beautiful Mona (Aiysha Heart) whose life enters a gruesome cycle of violence after she began an affair with a Punjabi and therefore experiences the wrath of her primal conservative mother (Harvey Virdi). Mona's mother (the similarity with the nasty witch from Hansel and Gretel is striking) and brother Kasim (Faraz Ayub) first try to take the law into their own hands. This goes wrong (in an incomprehensible way) and they hire a bounty hunter (Paddy Considine) to liquidate Mona.
You can call the performances of the actress Aiysha Hart and the other actors commendable. Persuasive and dedicated. A cast that does its utmost to realize a credible and realistic story. Considine plays a sublime character role. You can see the duality in his character evolving. From a cold blooded, racist assassin into a true understanding person who apparently still has a bit of humanity inside him. Despite these superb performances, the film still fails on several points. Apparently Shan Khan couldn't really decide whether it should be a didactic documentary or a thriller. It's not a documentary because the background of the problem is pretty vaguely presented and there's hardly any explanation. For a thriller, there has been as much as no suspense. Also, the storyline was pretty confusing because of the constant use of time jumps and constantly viewing the same situation from a different viewpoint. The whole movie was like a Spaghetti Bolognaise: tasteful with a clew of storylines.
Despite being a low-budget film, "Honour" partly succeeded to convince. It throws some light on a mysterious and incomprehensible to our standards culture, where barbaric practices are still honored. All in all I thought it was a good movie and a must see, if only to conclude that unfortunately such practices are still part of our modern society. And despite the dark atmosphere, this film also shows a gentle side so there remains still a bit of hope. Technically, I thought the executed idea of the film being a loop, not unkind and creative.
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
02/18/23
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