The Easy Way Out

I just watched this movie on Netflix called Shades of Ray. It was a really good movie about a Pakistani-American who while waiting for his current Caucasian girlfriend to accept his proposal, falls in love with this Pakistani-American woman. The whole movie was pretty much centered on him deciding if he could have a real future with a woman who is not in touch with his cultural plights and perspectives or if it would be better to just be with the woman who knows what its like to be Pakistani-American. Well in the end, I found it a little disturbing and rather disappointing that he chose the Pakistani-American woman. I expected the ending to support the idea that love can conquer all or some crap like race doesn’t have to stand in the way of true love. Or, the journey will be rough but it will be worth it. With him choosing the Pakistani-American, there was no life lesson or point at the end. It was such a simple way of dealing with the dilemma. “Just choose the woman who is most like you. It is easier that way.”  What a load of shit.