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'Scales' Review: A Visually Compelling Feminist Parable Featuring Mermaids


Scales Review: A Visually Compelling Feminist Parable Featuring Mermaids
Scales Review: A Visually Compelling Feminist Parable Featuring Mermaids
Saudi helmer-writer Shahad Ameen offers a bold, and boldly visual, take on the position of women in a patriarchal society.
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Running time: Running time: 76 MIN.
The position of Saudi women as second-class citizens receives a potent metaphoric visualization in Saudi helmer-writer Shahad Ameen’s parable-like debut drama, “Scales.” Revealing more through imagery than dialogue, the tale unfolds on a barren island where tradition dictates that each family sacrifice a daughter to the sea maidens to ensure the local fishermen a good catch. , with the taut first third particularly strong. But the narrative’s momentum and clarity dissipate in the middle and final sections even as the visuals continue to impress. Still, the boldly inventive “Scales” marks Ameen a ....

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Arora Akanksha wants to prioritize funding to ensure all refugees provided with required humanitarian assistance to survive
Updated 04 April 2021
April 04, 2021 00:52
MAKKAH: Arora Akanksha, an audit coordinator at the UN Development Project, faces a tough challenge as the first female millennial candidate running for the role of UN secretary-general.
For years, the selection process at the UN has been a closed-door process; candidates are appointed by the UN General Assembly on the recommendation of the UN Security Council. Every five years, selected candidates must receive nine of 15 council votes with no veto, and then receive two-thirds of the votes from the 193 member states in the assembly. ....

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