bbook:When I was a kid I went with my father to buy a bicycle for my brothers and I saw a green bicy
bbook:When I was a kid I went with my father to buy a bicycle for my brothers and I saw a green bicycle. My father didn’t care, but the guy selling it didn’t like it, he thought my father making the wrong choice, but I got it. However, I wasn’t allowed to ride my bicycle outside the home, only in the backyard. But the idea came because I wanted to show the tension between modernity and tradition and how Saudi appears to be modern because its a rich country—every kid has an iPad and everything—but they’re very traditional. For me, it’s the contrast between the real modernity—the heart of modernity for being independence, for believing in individuality—and then the surface modernity, which is the consumption of technology and all that. I felt that was very interesting. ‘Wadjda’ Filmmaker Haifaa Al-Mansour on Her Groundbreaking Debut Feature -- source link
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