What Avatar and Muallaf have in common?

There are SPOILERS in this review of these 2 films...

I know, people are already comparing Avatar to Star Wars and one tweet by someone I fleetingly saw said "Avatar is what Star Wars is to my parents". That may put the bar too high as Avatar is not as original as Star Wars although the technology is very much awesome.

I am actually predicting the Oscars nomination already for Avatar but that is another thing altogether.

So, everyone know what is Avatar but does anyone know what is Muallaf? It is a small film by the uber director of Malaysia who had left us this year, Yasmin Ahmad. I am not sure how others can watch it but if you are Malaysian, after you watch that behemoth of a movie called Avatar, why don't you wind down, and bring yourself down to earth with a small movie called Muallaf.

And it is not a movie about a Muslim convert. It is about how there are good in people as much as we don't believe there is any. If Dark Knight (which incidentally being shown the whole weekend over HBO) took two and a half hour to say the same thing, this small film took one hour twenty minutes to say the same thing.

Oh, what does the film called Avatar and Muallaf has in common though they are lightyears in technology and budget? Both starts in the middle of someone's life and there are strong women...

 If you can't find the strong women character in Avatar, watch it again.

As for Malaysian, what are you waiting for? We waited nearly one year before our government allow us to watch Muallaf. Even our neighbouring country, Singapore, has been graced with its showing...

I was fortunate to be given the chance to watch it 2 weeks ago and I am going to watch it again and again...