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Watch: Signature Move 2017 123movies, Full Movie Online – Zaynab is a thirty-something Pakistani, Muslim, lesbian in Chicago who takes care of her TV-obsessed mother. As Zaynab falls for Alma, a bold and very bright Mexican woman, she searches for her identity in life, love and wrestling..
Plot: A secret new romance with Alma forces Zaynab to confront her complicated relationship with her recently widowed mother. In this coming-of-age Muslim melodrama, Zaynab copes by taking up Lucha-style wrestling.
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VQFF 2017: Signature Move
Signature Move screened at the 2017 Vancouver Queer Film Festival (August 10-20) and is billed as an indie comedy-drama, but the film’s writer and leading actress Fawzia Mirza, who attended the screening, called it a “romantic comedy Muslim melodrama.” The film’s protagonist, Zaynab (a Pakistani woman living in Chicago) starts seeing Alma (a bright, exuberant Chicana woman). Zaynab’s relationship with Alma stumbles along in fits and starts: the next time she sees Alma after their first drunken hook-up, Alma realizes that Zaynab doesn’t remember her name, and Zaynab says, “Gimme five to choose from.” After being given five options, she picks wrong. A client of Zaynab’s can’t afford to pay her for her services as an immigration lawyer and asks if she accepts “other forms of payment,” which means wrestling coaching, and she ends up training for a ladies luchador match. Meanwhile, her mother watches the world through binoculars from her living room armchair and tries to find a suitable husband for Zaynab; she tells her that she can go to the gym, but says, “Don’t do too many crunches. You want to marry a man, not look like one.”

The concept of “coming out”-an individual announcing their homosexuality to their loved ones and the world as a whole-is inherently flawed. Gay folks decide whether to disclose their sexuality every day: when a cashier asks what they’re up to that weekend, when friends ask who they’re seeing and, of course, when their parents ask to meet their “friend.” The idea of being out once and for all, as if it’s a band-aid to be ripped off, is an impossible ideal, and an inherently white, Eurocentric one, too. In Signature Move, Zaynab is not out, and Alma is. This causes tension as their relationship grows and the film uses sights, sounds and well-timed cuts to strike a dichotomy between the two halves of Zaynab’s life and the growing chasm that separates them. The way that the film deals with this makes it infinitely more nuanced than your standard East-meets-West romantic comedy, as it questions the tropes we’ve come to expect from films starring mixed race leads, where South Asian culture is seen as oppressive and backwards and Western culture as enlightened and forward-thinking.

Zaynab is closeted, but as Mirza herself said in an extremely charming Q&A after the show, the point of the film is not to present Alma’s way of life as more correct than Zaynab’s. It’s the opposite. “We have to let go of thinking that there’s one right way to be,” Mirza told the audience in a discussion about the white, Western concept of coming out, and her own experiences with her mother. “It’s about finding better words and language to talk about the gay experience.”

On another note: Signature Move not only finds better language to talk about ethnocentrism and coming out, but to portray the lesbianism as a whole. It lets vibrant, lesbian womanhood exist in a way that often gets polished away for straight audiences-it’s sweaty, awkward, funny and unapologetic. Even if you’re not interested in the film for its aforementioned contributions to queer South Asian cinema, watch it because it’s extremely well made. It’s full of the little things that happen in real life: how your hair gets messed up as you get progressively more drunk, how your lips smush up when you kiss. Zaynab’s mother has a band-aid on her thumb for most of the film. The set design is detailed and expressive, especially the bedrooms, packed with trinkets and posters. Zaynab’s apartment is always filled with the sound of her mother’s Pakistani television dramas, which creates a tangible feeling of home. This film was the one I was most excited to see at this year’s VQFF, and I can’t recommend it enough. It’s one of those films you want to thank for existing.

Don’t waste your time..
Unless your life is all about being black, being gay, being white, being Muslim, being Christian, being a woman, being a man, etc. you can skip this film entirely.

I hope one day we don’t need to make art about trivial things like being gay, which shouldn’t matter, nor should being black, muslim or however you “define” who you are. But these days everything seems to fall under identity politics. All individual traits and personality seem to be forgotten and all the focus is on gender, race, religion, sexual orientation is what matters now.

I don’t care “what” you are, but that shouldn’t be the premise of a movie. At least it shouldn’t be the underlying driving force behind it. Because then it becomes about that, not what each of us do. Besides there are already a million movies that cover being gay, black or whatever. This brought nothing new to anything already made.

The film is way too forced, and there is a line in the beginning from the lead saying about something on TV “this doesn’t happen in real life.” Well, ironically this is what I felt about this movie.

The bottom line is that these type of films are really just a tool to seek acceptance. And the biggest issue I have with these “social conscience” films is for the most part they are recognized and celebrated ONLY because of the underlying identity message.

It’s okay to care about social issues, but don’t ONLY care about social issues. I just don’t like movies that are didactic.

This was just an amateur student film. BTW, if the early bar pick up had been a man doing it to a woman, the same people making this film would have called the police for sexual harassment.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 20 min (80 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated N/A
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director Jennifer Reeder
Writer Lisa Donato, Fawzia Mirza
Actors Fawzia Mirza, Shabana Azmi, Sari Sanchez
Country United States
Awards 6 wins & 5 nominations
Production Company N/A
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