Polarized (2023) User Reviews

like the friendship

[SnoopyStyle · 6/10 · 12 July 2023]

Lisa (Holly Deveaux) lives in a small farming community. She's a singer/songwriter with no hopes of making it. Her father is dying of cancer. Her family's farm has been foreclosed by the bank. She's making ends meet by working at the high tech farm which is replacing the local traditional farms. Highly-educated Dalia (Maxine Denis) started the high tech farm which is owned by her conservative Palestinian family. Despite running the place, she is expected to marry, have kids, and stay home.

I found this really interesting initially. I like the women's developing friendship. I like the clashing cultures. That would have been a nice story. It's a little disappointing to transition into a lesbian movie. Forty years ago, this would be breaking grounds. Twenty years ago, this would still be edgy especially with the Palestinian part. Today, it's derivative, predictable, and too obvious. The boyfriend is too clueless. There are a lot of family issues, but they often feel under-developed. It would be more compelling to concentrate on fewer characters. This is a sincere movie. It's not as edgy as it thinks it is.

So perfect

[shanoonmmh · 10/10 · 19 November 2023]

So realistic and amazing movie.i love shamims work and everything withit despite the lgpb things wich is totally normal the movie was discussing a serious matter wich is the other countries reaction to the refugees and how this effects on their lives and ..i only sad coz it wasnt much scenes like intimate scenes between dalia and lisa like more eye contacts u know overwhelming feelings like they gonna die to tell each other how much they're in love but keep it inside i mean scenes like that was missing kinda hope shamim reading this and do it in her next movie its so important but overall was great.

Great 👍 👌 movie 🎬 🎞 and very nice 👍

[anisamohamud · 10/10 · 4 December 2023]

THE MOVIES IS GREAT I like the community Queer love happens in the most unexpected places. In Polarized, it unfolds on a newly established 'vertical farm'. It's owned by Dalia and her extended family, who have left Palestine to set up a new life in this small community. Lisa is employed by them. A heated encounter between the two women at work exposes the stereotypically racist views Lisa holds towards Dalia. In response, Dalia fires her. That could have been the end of their story. However, the two start to build a connection on the back of these rocky beginnings. Acclaimed filmmaker Shamim Sarif's I Can't Think Straight fifth feature is visually arresting and unfolds beautifully as it contrasts two lives lived in vastly different worlds.

This movie and superficial, and the arguments are treated approximately

[fabiofrost · 4/10 · 16 January 2024]

All the topics staged by the director are not absolutely deepened, agriculture, the farm, the work, the love, the sick father, everything is put there and treated with extreme superficiality the love story that should have been at the center I have not seen this film of this film, every time you spend something interesting happens is systematically interrupted in the most absurd ways, or in the most inexplicable ways, the screenplay for the most part useless and which say nothing important, the Film is also difficult to find perhaps because it is a mediocre film to say the least, I was really disappointed, I had great waited for this film but in the end I found myself only with a handful of flies in hand !! Disappointed and sad, if the director and the actors do not have the courage or the desire to deal with certain topics in real way they must other !! The topics covered are covered in a ridiculous and superficial way and without a minimum of respect for those who have really passed certain situations !!