Arranged: Movie Analysis

The movie “Arranged” is a drama-induced film with a powerful message of integrity that religious women uphold. Arranged is a film that displays traditions that are very important in a religious household, such as marriage. Coming from two completely different traditions, Rochel, an orthodox Jew, and Nasira, a dominant Muslim, come to realize that their process for marriage is very similar. I chose to do this assignment rather than the bus ride because once I read what the movie was about, I began to be very interested in learning how the process of marriage works in other religions besides my own. I recently got engaged so I was looking forward to comparing the processes from the two women in the story with my own experiences since I am looking …show more content…
In both religions, families of Rochel and Nasira, the male figure held the authority in the household. Regarding the families, both lived in areas where there was nothing but their cultural groups. At one point during the film when Rochel and her brother runs into Nasira and her nephew at the park, the first thing that Rochel’s brother asks is if they are Jews. Rochel tells him that it doesn’t matter and that they should go play together. Nasira even states “someone should be shooting a commercial for world peace” because coming from different religious backgrounds the two boys playing together is not common because each group usually sticks to …show more content…
They are constantly told what to do and how to live their life that they really have no say as whom they spend their future with. Many would believe that a film regarding a Jew and a Muslim would result in religious conflict, but in this case the religious beliefs of the two is what brought them together. Symbolic interactionism made me realize how social interactions occurred throughout the movie. Without these symbols in the film, the two women would not have communicated face-to-face like they did resulting in a better future for both of them. Without them getting to know each other, essentially their process with their arranged marriage would not have gone the way that it did. This film really put into perspective how different other religions are. I could never imagine having an arranged marriage for the fact that nobody I know has ever had an arranged marriage, but to these two women, that is all they have ever known so essentially it is normal for them. The film takes an inside look as to what religious groups actually go through in our society