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Film Review - The Namesake

Have you you ever thought about how you came by your name? Why have you called your parents 'Henning' or 'Judith', 'Franziska', 'Daniel', 'Chris' or 'Sebastian'? Does your way because your parents found the name beautiful?
Or is there a story behind it?
you might have a 'namesake' to which your parents thinking when they chose your name? Yes? Then it's a little as the young Nikhil "Gogol Ganguli.

'The Namesake', the title of the movie that I saw yesterday is, namely, in German 'The Namesake' and so is also the name of the exceptional young American, son of Bengali immigrants to the United States, in the heart of this wonderful film.

When the boy is born, his parents Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli only a short time in the United States and are not already familiar with American bureaucracy. So it happens that they can not wait two weeks with the naming of the letter to his grandfather arrives from Calcutta, as they had in mind it really. You have to give the boy a name immediately, and now is the little 'Gogol, after the Russian writer Nikolai Gogol, who for the parents, especially his father Ashoke, has a special meaning. But for Gogol it is not always easy to bear that name ...

Even this little episode, so to speak, which is the starting point of the central thread of this film shows in many aspects, the film picks up again and again:

live as immigrants in a foreign country? How do they deal with an alien culture? As with their own and so-distant home? How are the children of the second generation? As they are rooted in the culture of their parents? Do they feel as an Indian? As an American?

I want to tell at this point not really too much to this movie offers much too much movement, surprising, and yes even funny.

Especially nice contrast between the two worlds, the warm, colorful, vibrant India and the cold, gray and dreary America is held at the beginning of the film in the image. Only towards the later, when the family einlebt in the new home, blurred this contrast. Very nicely designed.

Have a look at the film. 'The Namesake' is really worth seeing.

The Namesake