A Fond kiss is the second movie we watched in the culture II course. This is a love movie about a Pakistani named Casim who falls in love with Roisin who is an Irish teacher. Casim´s parents arranged a wedding for him because that is part of their culture. Casim is supposed to marry his cousin Jasmine but of course because he is in love with Roisin he does not want to do so. During the movie, Casim and Roisin take a trip to Spain, they are completely happy together but in the trip, Casim tells Roisin that he must marry Jasmine, something Roisin was not aware of. This destroys Roisin because she really cares about him. Casim realizes that he feels the same way about Roisin so decides to tell her that he will cancel the wedding.
Casim leaves his house and start living with Roisin. All his family is aware of that but they do not accept it. They think that they can make Casim change his mind and marry him with Jasmine. Even Casim´s older sister Rukhsana tries to separate them. She takes Roisin outside his house to show her how her family is and that day Jasmine is there so Roisin feels so bad about the fact that she is going to lose Casim. She even loses her job at the Catholic school because she is living with him but besides everything she is always there for him. At the end, they stay together because love can be much stronger than anything.
This movie makes you think that if you love someone, if does not matter what culture are you from, love is what always wins. If you care about someone with other traditions, customs, you can work together and make things work out. You can show society that people can change and we must accept each culture regardless its traditions, rituals and so on.
