Die Neue

I watched and found this to be a really great and thought-provoking movie. Being an ex-muslim myself, I found the film to give a very accurate and thought-provoking treatment of the limits of tolerance and the contradictions within multi-cultural society. The film is really in essence a study of individual liberty and freedom, and a reflection on the fine line between one's own (in this case religious) liberty and the liberty of others. I think the film does an especially good job of bringing home, the fundamental truth that the freedom of the one stops where the freedom of the other starts.

In specific to the topic the film took as an example, the place of Islam in the liberal west, I especially appreciated the treatment of the inner and outer conflicts of a muslim person with the outside western world. In this case the story is about a muslim girl living in the west, but the same reflection outlined above, which the movie splendidly instills in the viewer, applies ipso facto to a non-muslim person living in a muslim-majority community, or more generally to anybody living in a society wrt which they are fundamentally different.