The Namesake Reviews

Alana 2022-12-16 14:50:13

From 8 am to 10 am on April 18, 2012, our culture teacher let us enjoy this movie. It’s really not a very warm Indian movie. It reminds me of the Turkish movies "My Father, My Son" and "Big Fish." They all talk about fatherly love, from the son’s incomprehension of his father to the final son’s...

Idella 2022-12-10 08:01:47

The fragmentary emotions that can be experienced in the text of the novel have disappeared in the movie. In the scene where Ashima received a call from his hometown late at night when his father died of illness, the actions her husband should do were completely out of order. In the novel, before...

Esmeralda 2022-12-01 16:21:35

After reading it, I felt another feeling. I think the whole article is not only describing people's lives as strangers in a foreign land, but also describing the fate of the main characters long ago "defined" by their names. Gogol has been trying to break the limits of his own destiny since he was...

Leonie 2022-11-22 10:02:52

The Indian film I saw in a hotel when I was on a business trip to Guangzhou at the end of 2008. That was the first Indian film I watched most seriously and devotedly. This is also a very touching film. After watching it, I was deeply poisoned. The dialogues, plots, scenes and other content of the...

Jevon 2022-11-06 06:43:50

One of the best movies about cross-cultural (immigrant) identity I have seen so far. The questions raised by the film are more interesting than the film itself.

My parents immigrated to India from the first generation and faced a culture and environment that was very different from that of my own...

Ole 2022-11-02 02:38:37

This is a movie related to the name. An Indian couple Asoke and Asima came to the distant and unfamiliar United States to earn a living immediately after their wedding. Husband Asoko named his son Gogol born in the United States after his favorite author.  When Gogol grew up, he loathed his weird...

Jackie 2022-10-25 20:20:17

Although they are two generations living in two different cultures, in the family of these two generations, there is a touching sentiment. This family is full of love. The wife loves her husband and children deeply; the husband deeply loves his wife and children; brothers and sisters love each...

Elsa 2022-10-25 17:17:11

Jhumpa Lahiri is an Indian-American writer. A bit like the Chinese-American writer Amy Tan. In 2000, Jhumpa published her first book, "Interpreter of Maladies" (probably translated into "passenger" in Chinese? But most of the people in the book who need to take the pulse are not sick people, but...

Ransom 2022-10-22 19:55:53

First of all, thanks to the movie night organized by Tasimina's multi-culture club, I can eat Indian Food while watching namesake.After Ashima moved to New York with her husband who read pHD, away from home relatives and friends, everything around them was strange and strange, and the biggest...

Enid 2022-10-01 13:48:51

This is a review that I wrote a long time ago. I was checking and recycling the trash from my old blogs when I found this article. So here we go again: It has been a long time since I felt touched in US until I watched this film tonight. I was kept in the mood of being in the cinema and I could not...