Thanks for the memories!

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

I don't really believe in giving films points; credit or positive reviews on the shallow basis that they merely are what they are. "Wadjda" is the first feature film shot entirely in Saudi Arabia - not only this, but is the first feature-length film made by a female Saudi director AND revolves entirely around the world of a little girl. This is quite something for a nation which, until recently, had both banned cinemas and are rather strident in what they permit their female population to do. The sheer fact that "Wadjda" even exists has thus led to the likes of John Hartl, of the Seattle Times, to say it deserves praise "...just for being what it is", but this is not a philosophy I find myself being able to subscribe to. I think it right to say that similar cries of acclaim were directed towards "Osama" in 2003, which was one of only a handful of films the nation of Afghanistan had ever made and was, I believe, the first to be produced in a post-Taliban era. Subjectivity, however, must always triumph.If "Wadjda" deserves any credit for anything at all, then it is for the fact that it is a damn fine impressive piece of film-making in its own respect. It is so competent, in fact, that watching it and researching the facts afterwards causes you to wonder if anything that you are reading about the strictness of film-making in Saudi Arabia even existed at all. Indeed, by the looks of things, their citizenry are as cine-literate as anyone else and are more than aware of how to put together a solid piece of drama film-making."Wadjda" revolves around a young girl played by Waad Mohammed, who is the Wadjda of the title. She lives in Riyadh with her mother and father; attends school and enjoys messing around with a boy named Abdullah (Abdullrahman Algohani). Wadjda is a bit of a rebel: she is bored by prayer recitation at school and wears trainers where everyone else dons more formal looking footwear. At home, she records pop music off the radio and dances to it in her room - because we're all experts in Middle Eastern cinema, we know from seeing 2009's "Afghan Star" that it is illegal for women to dance because one of the contestants in said documentary landed themselves in some serious trouble when she momentarily did such a thing. She has a streak of wit to her: "I'm too good looking to be related to you" she quips to a shop-keeper before haggling with him. The bulk of the film will go on to consist of a lust Wadjda has for a bicycle she cannot afford and will not have bought for her - a solution, however, arrives in the form of a Quran recital competition which comes with a cash prize. The exchanges between the characters throughout feel very real - this is seemingly a film about fictitious people in a given situation, of course, but it is also a film depicting a kind of liberation from being unable to act in front of a camera for the purposes of film-making. Both the editing and camerawork additionally do well to place you on the dusty streets of Riyadh. Al Mansour decides to take the opportunity of being the first woman to make a Saudi Arabian film in order to go down the route of a kind of progressivism - "Wadjda" is not a film particularly eager to make the case for the status quo, but it is not an especially aggressive film which stamps its feet for the cause of social change. Much of this, I think, is down to the fact the film is about children and a child - more specifically, a child who rebels. A film about an adult woman causing trouble, or mischief, may have been at once less subtle and harmed its chances of getting made. Moreover, Al Mansour appears to use the film as an opportunity to address the issues dominating contemporary politics in Saudi Arabia, but does so in such a way that is not preachy and assumes the viewer know nothing of Saudi society. I was unsure, for example, if the scene whereby Wadja's mother spends a good deal of time on screen in her own home uncovered, before covering her head with a burka in order so that her taxi driver will not see her face, was meant to be comedic or not: will Muslim men watching the film not see her anyway as she stands, on screen, before she covers up? Irrespective, if at first we were unsure of how men and women interact with one another in this place, we are certain when Wadjda's teacher outlines that a woman's voice is her "nakedness" if a man hears her speak. Best, therefore, to keep silent whenever possible.Wadjda's desire for a bicycle derives from seeing several boys riding bikes and her thinking it looks like quite good fun. The bike, therefore, comes to epitomise a sense of evenness. In conjunction with this, the director additionally depicts the otherwise harmless friendship between Wadjda and Abdullah - two foils otherwise spending the entire film at one another's throats but destined, we feel, to remain together for the rest of their lives. What kind of marriage they forge between them, and what role Wadjda might have in fulfilling the position of the wife, is perhaps uncertain: we sense Al Mansour hopes it will be different to what the reality might be if the film had been made forty years earlier.

Saudi Arabia has a desert climate, and most people have good living conditions, but men are very dominated by the family. Wadjda is a 12-year-old girl, she is very active, and different from other girls; she wears jeans and skate shoes. She likes to listen to love songs. In Saudi Arabia, women need to wear the headscarf to cover their faces when they go out. Wadjda also should wear the headscarf when she goes to school, the principle has the conversation with Wadjda about her headscarf many times. One day, some friends come to Wadjda's house, but women cannot meet with them; Wadjda and his mother just leave the food at the door. Onetime Wadjda put her name on the family tree, but the second day his father takes it off. Women's names are not allowed to put on the family tree. Women cannot drive, so they have drivers; Wadjda's mother is late to work one day because she has trouble with her driver. Wadjda wants to learn and buy a bike but in their society, women cannot ride a bike. She starts earning money and learns ride bike secretly. Her mother rejects her many times to buy a bike. Finally, her father married to someone else, her mother is so sad and thinks she should make Wadjda happy, so she buys a bike for her.

Wadjda is about a young Saudi Arabian girl who challenges the social laws of Saudi Arabia. The movies main plot line is the struggle of Wadjda trying to get enough money to buy a bike. To get money Wadjda scams some people out of money as well as selling bracelets. The biggest sum of money was going to come from the Quran contest that she won However, there are greater problems within this because in Saudi Arabia girls do not ride bikes. Because of this the teachers do not let her keep the money. Another instance where you see injustice is with Wadjda mom, since in Saudi Arabia she can not drive. This leads her to get a driver and causes problems with her job. The end of the movie was very heartwarming because the mom buys Wadjda the bike instead of buying the dress she wants. Then in the closing scene, the guy Wadjda likes asks her to marry him when they are older.

In this movie the Director Haifaa Al-Mansour try to Talking about older topics we went through all of the 80's generation. As Saudi girl, I think this movie touch part of me but in same time the main idea not there, She raise the issue in random way and she didn't show the other aspects of the case, or at least a solution On the one hand the cast was disaster. Some of them this was his first experience as an actor.As usual, unfortunately, it did not display the film in Saudi Arabia were not likely in the TV channels to this momentIn the end I saw the film just supporting for the directorI hope to see a great Saudi movie soon.