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First, I do not have anything against the director or the crew but I am only stating a fact and any Arabic speaker who is familiar with the Saudi culture and not ideologically influenced will know what I am about to say is true. This films is written from a Western perspective. It is not even popular in Saudi, in fact, it is heavily criticized. I understand why the director favored the Western viewer over the Saudi viewer. it is because he wants awards and popularity in the West. Whether you like it or not, this film is not a Saudi film. There are lot of Saudi films that are critically acclaimed in Saudi . YouTube is one place to check them where you can see the positive reviews and likes. If this film was uploaded on YouTube and became available among the rest of Saudis, there will be more dislikes.

Im reading the comments below and I think it's funny why people bring political and religion over it. Cmon folks I'll bet there are bigger problems out there.

From a Muslim and an Arabic person who is proud of his culture, I find this film offensive to Islam teachings and values. I guess this film was written as an American film but somehow the director thought it would be OK to make a Saudi version of it. It's not only against Islam teachings and what prohphet Mohammad -peace be upon him- told us, it's trying make that kind of behavior acceptable in our society. He criticized the society for things the society didn't come up with, things that are from Islam teachings as I mentioned. The director knew his movie will never be acceptable. Because if he doesn't know that, this movie would be on Netflix in MENA.

Boy meets girl new- Saudi style. The more conservative Saudis will hate it, but it's nicely filmed with a sense of humour, and some digs at the oppressiveness young people feel there. (Of course, who is to say they won't feel just as oppressed by the 'freedoms' we have in the west?). The actors are likeable and do a good job, but its the locations that fascinated me.

I love the film we need more like that on our Arab countries thank you so much guys