Osama
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Movie Reviews of Osama
Movie Review: If you seek to understand...
Summary: 5 Stars
Like another reviewer, I cried while watching this film. I knew the premise, and suspected what the ending would hold, but watched it anyway, for the sake of understanding. This is a film which cries out to be seen by women around the world. It is beyond my comprehension that now, in 2008, after all that women have endured, some of us are still dominated and brutalized by men. Yes, "it's a cultural thing," but that makes it no less wrong. I encourage all women to watch this film, to learn and understand, and to speak up for those whose weeping goes unheard. I also strongly recommend Khaled Hosseini's book, A Thousand Splendid Suns.Movie Review: IMHO
Summary: 5 Stars
Scary and sad story which extends far beyond Afghanistan. Superbly done and product and service excellent.
Two observations: First Osama is an unfortunate name as it has nothing directly to do with bin Laden. Second, the implication that abuse of women is exclusive to Taliban is suspiciously misleading. They may be the worst, but are others much better? It left me wondering if there is more to the production and distribution of this movie than meets the eye. Nevertheless, viewing this movie should be part of the education of us all.
Movie Review: Osama
Summary: 5 Stars
An astonishing debut from director Barmak, and the first film to be made in post-Taliban Afghanistan, "Osama" paints a horrific portrait of daily life under the oppressive fundamentalist regime, where women are completely devalued and only men allowed to work, leaving all-female families, with husbands martyred in battle, to starve. With continual fear of exposure etched in her doe-like eyes, Golbahari, a young Afghani non-actor who plays Osama, breaks our hearts each time we look at her. Don't miss this trenchant, eye-opening film.Movie Review: Emotionally Moving
Summary: 5 Stars
This move is an interesting perspective of life in Afghanistan and the former Taliban. A portrait of life as Afghanis formerly knew it is clearly depicted in this movie. It's hard to believe that human beings would live in such a surpressed society. I thought for a moment I was watching a World War II movie in Nazi Germany rounding up Jews for extermination. I'm glad this move is out there and I believe it should be watched in order for the skeptic to get a better view on what America and it's people have to offer the world.Movie Review: Taliban's brutality against women and girls
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a painfully realistic movie about the brutalities committed by the Taliban against women and girls. The images are heartbreaking. Being a Western woman is difficult for me to see the Taliban side of the issue. Nothing justifies starving human beings in the name of religion or treating women like chattel. Giving a 12 year old as a wife-slave to an old man for me exemplifies the true nature of the Taliban. Bunch of thugs who use religion to brutalize the weakest. Probably to feel like real men they need to abuse women.