FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE What People Will Say (engl. subt.) 

To be honest, I didn't want to buy What People Will Say because I wasn't so interested in the subject anymore. Of course I also watched a lot of Culture Clash dramas, but then I became aware that too often filming is done according to genre specifications. The result: Culture Clash films that are all too striking and work with stereotypes. But What People Will Say is different. More differentiated. At the heart of the film is Nisha (Maria Mozhdah), who lives in Norway. Her family comes from Pakistan. Nisha hardly rests, in almost every setting she hurries. She meets normal young people, but at home her father, the patriarch, is already waiting with a worried face. To put it technocratically, Nisha lives optimally "integrated" (according to our ideas), but also always between the worlds. She gets stoned sometimes and doesn't want to wait to get married before having sex. Then everything's fine, isn't it? While Nisha likes to wear navel-free outdoors, she has to put up with completely different clothes at home. Then her father (Adil Hussain) catches her in the room with the boyfriend... What will people say! Iram Haq tells the story of an escalation between the traditional Pakistani people and the "Western idiots". We realize silly prejudices everywhere. Haq tries to do justice to both sides and their arguments and profits above all from their great actors. We can soon translate certain phrases; for example "I only want the best for you" = "What will people say". A conflict that affects not only the daughter, but also the father. We experience him as a torn personality. Is it so that the external pressure on ordinary people is much stronger than those who have experienced something like an emancipation movement? Mind you: Of course this applies to the Berlin suburbanite behind his curtain as well as to the immigrants who are just as entrenched in their own homes. What People Will Say is therefore above all a film about freedom! Freedom and empathy should prevail, not fear of the opinion of third parties! Rebellion, not resignation!