Research Paper On Solar Mama

Solar Mama Film Review
The film Solar Mamas is directed by Mona Eldaief and Jehane Noujaim. It is about a woman’s journey to get an education to be able to turn her and her family’s life around along with her community. Rafea is a wife and mother that is from Jordan, she gets the opportunity to attend the Barefoot College in India that is training with other illiterate women to become solar energy engineers. She goes through some difficult struggles when trying to pursue her dream. Mostly dealing with her controlling husband and worrying about her children. She makes new friends while at the Barefoot College that later helps her catch up when she gets back after her husband forced her to head home early. She eventually graduates and heads back to her village where she brings her knowledge of solar energy engineering to teach her community about it and to eventually be able to offer jobs as solar engineers.
I love the way they made this film with regular background noise and not the usual music you would hear in almost any movie. It helps give the film a natural “feel” to it as is goes from one scene to the other. It even has some scenes where they are sitting around and relaxing or doing what they normally do instead of just focusing on the main reason of the film. I also like how Rafea is determined to …show more content…
I found the film Solar Mamas interesting and funny. It was interesting because of how they made the film and how determined Rafea was to get the job as a solar energy engineer, she never seemed to give up at all. The film was funny when they would just fool around and have scenes where they would say something funny like, “Smoking is all we ever do”. The film makes it easy to get your attention with all the dramatic, funny, and sometimes sad scenes it has. This film is about a really great story, I liked this story so much I would watch it