I don’t want to beat around the bush with this one- I did not enjoy the episodes I watched of this show.

I probably have seen more anime/ Japanese television and media than I have of the other cultures and even so my experience is quite limited.

I briefly learnt Japanese in high school, so I have a preliminary understanding of the culture and customs, however I feel like this understanding is probably not that useful in developing a thorough understanding of Japanese culture.

I do enjoy watching cartoons, so it was nice to have a change of visuals for this last week’s screening. I think cartoons (obviously) change the watching experience and initially I thought that this would be light-hearted and for kids- boy was I wrong.

The blatant sexualisation of children who were meant to be in sixth class, which in Japan means the children are about 11…

I know next to nothing about Pakistan. My cultural frame of reference is limited to the fact that I know Pakistan have a good cricket team and even when I searched “Pakistan famous cricketer” I was only familiar with one name (Imran Khan). Now I don’t know if this says more about my lack of knowledge of Pakistan or of cricket, or a combination of both. Either way, my understanding of Pakistan is limited.

My lack of understanding meant that I had to google the language that was being used, I googled the predominant language in Pakistan and found that it was Urdu, this was also supported by Netflix’s feature which shows the language in the movie.

However, the language in the movie swapped quite frequently between English and Urdu and the phrases that were said in English were quite…

First of all, this movie was amazing. Second of all, this movie was amazing.

If you have seen this movie, you would forgive me for ending my blog post there, because I truly enjoyed it. It was the movie that I was hoping it would be, fantastic female role models, beautiful cinematography and a lot of fight scenes. Also, I watched it with a fellow BCM-er (Hey Kate!) so it was a bit of an experience, and watching a show with a friend is always a million times better. I was also lucky enough to be able to witness the reactions of another person whilst watching the movie.

Going into the movie, I had no idea what the premise was (other than it containing mixed martial arts) nor did I know that it had a female lead. I also don’t know that much about Vietnam and Vietnamese culture, most of…