You think you have the power of equality

Why are we attracted to things we are denied? Its an unconsious thirst to have what we know we can't because its exciting and to arouse our emotional self is invigorating. In a storyline by New Line Entertainment, a young englishmen goes to Sarawak to become part of the colonial government trying to educate and control the native village. In The Sleeping Dictionary (2003), the young man falls in love with a his sleeping dictionary, but it is a forbidden circumstance for them to have a relationship beyond that.
It brings many themes of real life down to a personal level for the viewer. For example, with myself, I don't necessarily thing everyday that I will be denied something because of my status as a women, ocupation, or culture. However, the englishmen has authority in this community over all the Iban people. There is only one other englishman over him that has been stationed in the field for many years. But, according to Iban culture and the rules of the english, it has never worked for an Iban to marry a englishmen.
The movie incorporates the seriousness of life and the realities of dissapointment and sprinkles light notes in between. When your invitation for dinner is, "If you're about to be killed at least stay for dinner," I would reconsider where my behaviors and actions were leading me. The discrimination and subordination of the Iban women, especially when a English women wants to take her picture, she says nothing to her about not wanting her picture taken. She is an Iban women who should respect the English, but not receive any respect. On the English women's side, she doesn't mean to be disrespectful, but she is uninformed about the Iban culture and takes no initiative to interact with them beyond systematically recording evidence of their existence.
I would watch this movie over and over again because I think it is a little different from the cookie-cutter movies that we see today. How often do we see the same story played out but with different character's in a different setting. Of course The Sleeping Dictionary can be coined as a traditional love story, but the underlying themes that request your attention makes the experience worth while.
To address the question of how the web is changing the role of the movie and movie critic, I would agree that he or she is being empowered. The viewer no longer needs to go to the theater or even down the road to rent a movie. It can be ordered, or even viewed online. There are also numerous outlets for publication on the web for critics to express their opinion, as I am currently doing. Viewers won't watch what they don't like. Therefore, based on the ideas of marketing, and even the psychological theories of positive reinforcement based on a system of financial rewards, producers won't market movies that don't make money. Furthermore, I contemplate whether the world wide web as a free outlet of expression and communication would be infected with more charges and bills because producers are losing money in the theaters.