During his interview with Lincoln, Changez says he was approached by a terrorist cell to become a mujahid and was tempted to accept, angry and disillusioned by "the arrogance, the blindness, the hypocrisy" of the US. He refused when told about the "fundamental truths" of the Quran, echoing a phrase from Jim Cross during their first encounter, "focusing on the fundamentals." Changez explains that both Islamic fundamentalists and blind capitalists like Underwood Samson similarly simplify and exploit people for their own means.
"A brilliant book. With spooky restraint and masterful control, Hamid unpicks the underpinnings of the most recent episode of distrust between East and West. But this book does not merely excel in capturing a developing bitterness. The narrative is balanced by a love as powerful as the sinister forces gathering, even when it recedes into a phantom of hope. It is this balance, and the constant negotiation of the political with the personal, that creates a nuanced and complex portrait of a reluctant fundamentalist."
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That's what a Pakistani professor starts with as he tells an American journalist why he's involved with Islamic fundamentalists after nearly mollywhopping the money-stuffed pinata that is the American dream.
A note on news: I couldn't imagine anyone watching this movie without thinking of the recent Boston bombings. The Reluctant Fundamentalist is quite critical as to how Americans treated people following the other major act of terror on our soil. Twitter, one writer said on April 15, does its best work 5 minutes after a tragedy and its worst work in the 12 hours after that. Perhaps, in a way, Americans aren't too different: they behave their best in the immediate aftermath of terror, but our long-term reaction leaves things to be questioned. But through questioning our responses, our prejudices, our ways or seeing others, we could avoid being fundamentalists, so to speak.
Suddenly, the discussion became far more outspoken. It was obvious, some said, that the two men, one American and one Muslim Pakistani, were on different sides. One looked like a fundamentalist terrorist, they said, and the other a CIA operative.
In Ahmed, Nair has a splendid partner. His Changez is layered and complex -- a strange man at the crossroads of two cultures, buffeted between both. Schreiber's Bobby is on murkier ground; though the actor does a fine job imbuing the role with as much gravitas as possible, he's simply not as clearly conceptualized as Changez, and the character suffers in comparison. In fact, the film whispers in the end when it's supposed to crescendo' we can spot the denoument a mile away. (Okay, maybe three.) Still, The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a beautifully filmed, well-performed drama that pushes viewers to take a look at issues we may feel reluctant to examine. That it does so with a sometimes obvious hand is forgivable.