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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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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 as a talent to watch.
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As the first Emirati actress to star in a film submitted for the Oscars, Al Taei says it was an honour to appear in
Scales. The movie is going to be part of history. I wish that it is also a part of the future and encourages more actors and filmmakers here in the UAE, in Saudi Arabia and all the Gulf countries to produce films that can compete in the Oscars, she tells
The National. The film talks about the changing roles of women in society from the time Hayat is born, from the challenges she faces to expectations she has from the society and her family. Each woman in the movie goes through a different struggle and conveys powerful emotions.
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