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A Show for Two

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All Mina Rahman wants is to finally win the Golden Ivy student film competition, get into her dream school, and leave New York City behind for good. When indie film star Emmitt Ramos enrolls in her high school under a secret identity to research his next role, he agrees to star in her short film for the competition… if she acts as his NYC tour guide. From production to performances and comedy to collaborations: Nahal Ashrafi wants to explore it all

Throughout their time at London College of Communication (LCC), our emerging creatives have developed a range of specialist skills and perspectives that have supported them to more clearly define both their practice and point of view. I wish we had explored the details of Mina's relationship with her parents more. One of the most emotionally resonant things in the novel is that she got her love of the movies from her parents taking her to the theater when she was younger, and despite that relationship souring as she grew up, she still loves cinema. She questions multiple times what it was, when it was, that changed. The most logical thing to do would be a revelation as to why Mina's parents treat her and her younger sister so poorly. It would not need to be forgiveness or absolution, abuse victims don't owe that to anyone. I do however believe that it would be context and emotional nuance that the story sorely needs. I know that life doesn't necessarily provide closure or answers like that, but fictional narratives do, which is why we return to them constantly, again and again. She frustrated me sooooo much. I get that she had a lot of family issues with her parents, but that is no excuse to treat everyone like shit? She literally met a stranger on the street and without even knowing him, started insulting him because she has anger issues. Not only that, she also never considered her best friend's feelings or her sister's!! She was mad at the world for a good 90% of the book. The arguments were super ridiculous and most of them could've easily been avoided if she were more empathetic.emmit is literally the LI in cdwy (forgot his name)--down to the "bad boy" smirks and the rings and brooding personality that's just a cover for his sad, vulnerable heart. also they both have secret passions their parents would disapprove of so you can empathise with how HARD their poor lives are THE MAN OF THE HOUR! EMMITT, MY MAIN MAN. What a soft boi? I loved him. His thoughtfulness, the attention to Mina's mental wellbeing while also not drawing attention to it and risking her acting out as a defence mechanism (because she would. She was feisty). He was great. When he saw her at a low point and brought her to her favourite place, I almost had a meltdown? Marking a moment of clarity in the journeys of our graduating students, our Shows provide a window into intense periods of learning and experimentation. I longed to see a multidimensional side to how the parents were acting and why, you know? But the sisters in this book didn’t let them get in a word otherwise, and it made me confused, because are the parents really THAT bad? Or are the kids not giving them a chance to explain? I am aware this is a very controversial topic, so I’ll leave things here by saying that this is how I view things, and it has nothing to do with the cultures themselves.

i don't think i ever knew what it felt like to want to protect a fictional character with your whole heart until i met mina rahman, i'm just......no words. my biggest issue with this story is that it literally is a carbon copy of tashie bhuiyan's debut. if you've read that, you've read this. if you've only read this, don't bother to read cdwy because you already have! it's like a shitty two-for-one deal you didn't want. bhuiyan states this is her love letter to new york, but it doesn't show in the writing. i really wish we got to EXPERIENCE new york--instead we got passages like "we're in madison square garden. now we're on the subway. i love new york!" there was nothing descriptive; no sounds, sights or smells indicating what about new york is so amazing. i didn't get a single hint of what new york's culture or vibe is really like and i think it further proves how weak the writing was. It doesn’t help that I’m not a big fan of first-person point of view, which is made worse by some really strange sentence construction that Bhuiyan employs (present perfect tense which threw off my sense of time off so subtly it bothered me through the entire novel). I also think perhaps she saw criticism of her previous two protagonists, that they were in general toothless and without any flaws or friction, and then just went wildly swinging in the other direction. Mina and Emmitt are truly abrasive and unpleasant to read about. I didn't feel their relationship develop at all, just a switch flip somewhere around the middle of the novel. Their dialogue, which some call banter but I call excruciating is punctuated with unnatural pet names and "Gen Z" slang which is so hyperspecific to a certain kind of internet subculture, it reads as juvenile, with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer.The hot yet unattainable love interest you will never even be able to glimpse in your pathetic mortal body and soul?)

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