The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Amazon.com An interview between an American journalist and a Pakistani professor forms the spine of Mira Nair's sociopolitical character study. While working on a piece about the "new militant academia," Lahore-based Bobby Lincoln (Liev Schreiber) meets with Changez Khan (Riz Ahmed, The Road to Guantánamo) in an attempt to understand how this self-proclaimed "lover of America" could turn against his former homeland. Changez recalls his life in Manhattan, circa 2001, where Jim Cross (Kiefer Sutherland, cast against his 24 type) hires the Princeton graduate as a financial analyst for a firm that helps companies to become more profitable--by firing workers. During his travels, Changez hits it off with Erica (Kate Hudson, out of her depth), a conceptual artist. Then the Twin Towers fall while he's in Manila on business, and his faith in the United States dissolves after an unwarranted strip search, followed by further indignities. Where he once appreciated the country's "level playing field," Changez comes to feel like an outcast, even with Erica, who sticks by him for reasons more opportunistic than affectionate. Mira Nair's adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel works best when these characters hash out their differences rather than during the amped-up climax, in which rocks, guns, and riot police come into play. But it wouldn't work at all if Changez didn't register as a plausible human being rather than a stand-in for an entire people, and Ahmed effectively reveals his different dimensions, even if the film lacks the emotional richness of The Namesake, Nair's previous literary adaptation. --Kathleen C. Fennessy Product Description We begin in 2011 in Lahore. At an outdoor cafe a Pakistani man named Changez (Riz Ahmed) tells Bobby (Liev Schreiber), an American journalist, about his experiences in the United States. Roll back ten years, and we find a younger Changez fresh from Princeton, seeking fortune and glory on Wall Street. The American Dream seems well within his grasp, complete with a smart and gorgeous artist girlfriend, Erica (Kate Hudson). But when the Twin Towers are attacked, a cultural divide slowly begins to crack open between Changez and Erica. Changez's dream soon begins to slip into nightmare: profiled, wrongfully arrested, strip-searched and interrogated, he is transformed from a well-educated, upwardly mobile businessman to a scapegoat and perceived enemy. With time, he begins to hear the call of his own homeland. Taking us through the culturally rich and beguiling worlds of New York, Lahore and Istanbul, The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a story about conflicting ideologies where perception and suspicion have the power to determine life or death.
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Author/Artist:Riz Ahmed|Martin Donovan|Kiefer Sutherland|Kate Hudson|Shabana Azmi|Liev Schreiber|Om Puri|Mira Nair
Binding: Dvd
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