Starting with an on-screen rape, the movie rolls downhill from there. While the movie accurately depicts what we generally know about how Muslim men treat women, the movie ends with a Muslim father who lies to his clan in order to save his daughter's life -- and a Catholic missionary is shown as the pinnacle of hypocrisy for not displaying charity by saving said young girl from the sons of Ishmael. Not finding any love from the gods of Islam or Catholocism, she turns to some bizarre primal ritual for her value. Stranger things happen -- can't think of what -- just know I haven't felt this oppressed since I watched Planet of the Apes.
Review of Serenades
