![]() Changez is a conflicted soul and whilst he starts out as a financial fundamentalist, should he not swap one extreme for another? Can he realise that fanaticism is harmful no matter whichever root it has? An interesting, and very relevant film. Regardless where one stands on such issues this film puts a young man in the middle of two extremes. The former type of extremism is well noted and condemned, whilst the latter is noted but not so openly condemned although it is possible that it is causing more damage than religious fundamentalism. On the one hand is the religious fundamentalism which drives people to kill for the sake of dogma and blind obedience to a book whilst on the other hand lies the financial fundamentalism which drives people to gamble the livelihoods of others for the sake of individual profit maximisation and wealth accumulation. The country he had come to grow so fond of, suddenly puts him in a dark corner, which raises some uneasy questions is hatred the response to hatred, or extremism the cure to extremism? A single event, with a chain of events that followed caused him to question everything. A young Pakistani whose upward path to wealth in the finance industry in New York is interrupted by the atrocities of Septemwho then becomes the Asian looking man with a beard, the centre of everyone's suspicions. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that. ![]() ![]() Whilst it is tempting to dismiss this as just another 9/11 related tale, it goes a little deeper than one might think. Excellent At a caf table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. ![]()
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