Osama
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Movie Reviews of Osama
Movie Review: Spectacular portrayal of life for Afghan women under Taliban
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a wonderful film with extraordinarily beautiful cinematography and an even more compelling story. On the verge of starvation, a family of women decide to disguise their youngest member as a boy so that she can work.
The story was based on a true incident of an Afghan girl disguising herself as a boy in order to be able to attend school. The film effectively portays the poverty and destruction of Taliban-era Afghanistan, the fear and terror involved in everyday transactions, and the consequences for disobeying the rulers. Using scenes that are memorable and haunting, it convincingly brings viewers into this world.
Most amazing is the fact that none of the actors are professional. They are all local Afghans with their own stories of loss and sadness. The interview with the director available on the DVD is almost as interesting as the film itself.
A magnificent film, well worth watching.
Movie Review: Amazing, sad, and... sad
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a film you don't share with your friends right after that Saturday barbeque. Osama is a depressingly sad, well-directed, and powerfully informative film that focuses on repressive leadership, misogyny, and "man's inhumanity to man" in Taliban-led Afghanistan. It is an amazing and sobering film. I can't believe the actors are actors (make sure you view the director's comments AFTER you view the film).
It is hard to go through a western department store after sitting through Osama. At the film's conclusion, smiles will be nonexistent in the room. At the same time, there will be this universal recognition that the lighting, and scenery, and acting, and storyline are so well matched.
Be prepared, however. You will not be satisfied with the ending. Neither was Osama. Be prepared for an emotional pain that is stronger and longer lasting than the one you get in watching Hotel Rwanda.
Movie Review: A SCORCHING PORTRAIT OF LIFE UNDER FANATACISM
Summary: 5 Stars
A scorching portrait of life under fanatical Islam, OSAMA is the first film from Afghanistan after the previous collapse of the Taliban (Sadly, these enemies of humanity again weld power). So they won't starve to death and since women were not allowed to work, a widowed mother dresses her 12 year-old daughter as a boy and calls her the notorious male name Osama. But when her daughter is rounded up with all the other boys for mandatory religious training, the horror of her situation escalates. This film, based on a true events, should be required viewing for all who want to better understand the rampant, deadly religious extremism that compels its adherents to punish all those who refuse to submit. Where is a God of Love in this world view? Clearly all Gods are not One. This extraordinary film is beautifully profound and deeply moving. In Pashtu with English subtitles.Movie Review: Worse than fascism
Summary: 5 Stars
The film transports on back into the worst mentality of Biblical times, or into a caricature of such mentality. Hard to watch the film passively, so strongly is the message given. One sees that the hateful Nazis were not the worst, believers with Taliban mentality are the worst: there, all citizens are totally enslaved on a daily basis, and the women far, far worse than the men. Such movements can only grow in a field of abject ignorance, in a climate where there are Koran Schools instead of education. In this respect, read Siba Shakib's "Nach Afghanistan kommt Gott nur noch zum weinen", wherein she portrays the 'liberating act' for females under strict Islam as being forced by the Russians into schools in Kabul to learn to read and write. To read, write and think for oneself frees one from the mindless edicts of the authoritarian, obedience-teaching, fundamentalist mullas.Movie Review: "What's A Rainbow?" ~ Come See The Revolution
Summary: 5 Stars
Note: Pashtu with English subtitles.
The '03 film `Osama' is a searing indictment by writer/director Siddiq Barmak on the deplorable treatment of women in Afghanistan under the stern, uncompromising regime of the Taliban. This is not a film for those hoping to wile away an hour or two watching some light-hearted entertainment. Yes the production values are extremely good and the acting is excellent, especially the performances of the young female star Marina Golbahari (Osama) as Osama and Arif Herati as her street peddler friend Espandi. However Siddiq Barmak did not make this film to entertain. This is a movie with a message and there's not confusion about what he's trying to convey.
Everyone should see this film. You may not like what you see, but you certainly won't forget it. I assume that was Barmak goal from the beginning.