Spoiler Alert-- The guy gets the girl

When I first came to Saudi Arabia, I had so much to do and so much exhilaration to do it. Now as I wait for my wife's visa to be processed, I'm just trying to find the best way to pass the time. My only real source of entertainment is the Dubai Movie channel that typically plays romantic comedies every night. I have thereby decided to review these films..to deem them as Good, Bad, Ugly, or Wild Card and to extract their implicit social statements, their capitalist ethos and/or patriarchal underpinnings. The only problem is that on TV in the UAE, they edit out all the kissing scenes.....so what's it like to have the love without the catharsis...?


SPOILER ALERT: THE GUY GETS THE GIRL IN THE END.

Thursday, December 18, 2014

Love Films, No Kisses

When I first came to Saudi Arabia, I had so much to do and so much exhileration to do it.  Now as I wait for my wife's visa to be processed, I'm just trying to find the best way to pass the time.  My only real source of entertainment is the Dubai Movie channel that typically plays romantic comedies every night.  I have thereby decided to review these films..to deem them as Good, Bad, Ugly, or Wild Card and to extract their implicit social statements, their capitalist ethos and/or  patriarchal underpinnings.  The only problem is that on TV in the UAE, they edit out all the kissing scenes.....so  what's it like to have the love without the catharsis...?

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