City of life?

Dubai wants to be several things at once, and everything about three numbers bigger as anywhere else. So it's no surprise that, apparently, dreams exist to turn Dubai into the Middle East's version of Hollywood.

This may explain why the news that the city's first feature film, City of Life, finishes shooting this week, appears on the front page of today's Gulf News. It's been "made from start to finish" in Dubai, and is about the lives of several people in the city.

I'm definitely going to watch the movie - if I'm still here when it opens. And you can be sure I'll tell you if the picture of Dubai presented there is in line with what I hear and see myself.