Can you talk some details about the movie? What made the greatest impression? What still sticks in your mind? Thanks.
I bought a copy of Osama on DVD when it was released earlier in the year. It is likely the most relentlessly depressing great film I have ever seen. I cannot explain it to you. It must be seen to be understood or, more accurately, felt down to your core.
It will leave you devastated, but you will also swell with pride that our troops put an end to the domination of these vermin.
-Toonces
The hopelessness of the main character who is a girl disguised as a boy to avoid starvation for her family - all women. She is caught when she menstrates for the 1st time. Instead of the normal stoning to death, she is saved by a crony iman of the judge and packed off to a poor harem for raping / baby production. The sadness is that the iman is elderly and the whole harem may be without a means of survival when he dies. Poignant due to the recuring theme of the girl jump roping even in jail.
There are so many things about this movie that overwhelmed me. Rent the DVD at Blockbuster, and you will see what I mean.
The Taliban denied women the most basic rights, and did it with such zeal, it's hard to think of one example from the movie that stands out in my mind.
When they pulled Osama out of the hole where she was hung and tortured, it became obvious she was not a male. You just knew she had bought the farm, and your heart, and stomach just dropped, hoping there would be a reprieve.
I was praying for a daisy cutter to fly over, and kill the Taliban, and put Osama out of her misery, but alas, it did not happen.
At the soccer stadium when the men all gather to watch the weekly entertainment of putting women in holes, and stoning them to death, Osama gets (rent the movie for the rest of the story).