A Gay Girl in Damascus: The Amina Profile

I generally like watching offbeat slightly self-interested art pieces. This however was an endeavor to push myself to actually finish watching. The beginning story premise was interesting and the social topic was relevant and historical. Then it decided to veer into a direction that I would best describe as kinetic. It flipped from a narrative view to actual newscasts of the events. The entire tone of the piece changes and it left me wondering. Was the filmmaker really intending to make a documentary or did they really want to make it more into a docudrama. The elements are there to make this into a blockbuster movie given the right treatment. You have an exotic local, a highly charged political climate, social relevance, romance and a great plot hook. But as it stands now I couldn't recommend this movie.