Posted on 06/30/2009 9:51:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The New York Times called it "torture porn." But audiences at the Los Angeles Film Festival had a different take; they named the controversial film "Best Feature" at the gathering.
Dennis Prager writing at Townhall has some thoughts about the film and conservative complaints about Hollywood:
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Yet, now, released as if by Providence the week after the fraudulent elections in Iran and the suppression and murder of Iranian dissidents, is a film about the nature of the radical Muslims who govern Iran. Titled "The Stoning of Soraya M.," the film depicts events based on the true story of a woman stoned to death in a rural village in Iran in 1986 for allegedly committing adultery.
If you want to understand the type of people who run Iran, see this film. If you want to understand why men and women risk their lives to demonstrate against the fascist theocracy that rules Iran, see this film. The film is about the type of people who become "supreme leader" (Ali Khamanei) or president of Iran (Mahmoud Ahmadinejad). It is about their mendacity, their use of religion to commit barbarity, and, of course, their despicable treatment of women.
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Many of us lament Hollywood's lack of courage, its lack of moral seriousness, and its political correctness. Here, then, is a courageous, morally deep, and politically incorrect film that mainstream reviewers -- as cited above -- have lavished praise on. It should be the ideal film for serious Americans who properly complain about Hollywood's offerings. But if a riveting drama with a courageous theme, Oscar-level acting, which is as relevant as today's headlines, fails at the box office, Hollywood will have been vindicated.
It therefore seems clear to me that those who do not see this film have forfeited the right to complain about Hollywood.
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Prager informs us the film is opposed by Amnesty International because, according to them, they are already fighting these practices so the film is unnecessary. Unintentional humor is a strong suit of AI and their disregard of "Stoning" only makes their illogic more amusing.
The film will not get wide release but keep an eye out at your local artsy type movie house. There will also be showings at a lot of churches. Any way you can, I would urge you to see this powerful, maddening film.
The title of the film should be “Islam 101”
They don’t want people to see this because it makes Islam look bad.
Someone is about to get a fatwa issues on their head...
NYT+ABC+MSNBC+cBS+AP+Reuters+Socialism+Islam=Obama
This is a powerful and important film made by very courageous, talented people.
The end of the film should have posted: We all need to kill all of the Islamofascists so this can never happen again. Not negotiate; decimate.
The left’s approval of the Iranian misogynistic, homophobic, theocracy only proves that above every thing else - the left’s core belief is that the US is evil.
The movie is amazing and the book is really good also.
For a much better discussion of the film, see this from the Philadelphia Inquirer:
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20090630_Defiant_witness.html
I meant to say, “as opposed to the NY Times view”.
Even if the majority in the country were convinced that Islam is evil, not one politician would do anything about it for fear of being considered intolerant. Silence in the face of evil has become the order of the day.
I’m reading it now, and I like it.
Have you read Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood? It’s a graphical autobiography that explores a young girl’s childhood in Iran during the years surrounding the 1979 revolution. The movie came out a few years ago. It was good, but, of course, the book was better.
” not one politician would do anything about it for fear of being considered intolerant”
They are just afraid of being targeted. Our government does things by halves, therefore leaving a retaliation possible.
If the first Bush had let the Israelis pursue Saddam into Baghdad, Gulf War II would have never had to happen and a lot more lives would have been saved.
In WII we won because we didn’t simply beat back the Germans to Germany, we (along with the Soviets) went straight into the heart of the country and made sure nothing was left but rubble.
We didn’t do things by halves and we gave the generals in the field full authorization to do whatever it took to defeat the enemy. We didn’t spend time wringing our hands over how the Japanese would feel if we bombed them.
We didn’t distinguish between civilian and military targets, we made the entire country beg for us to stop and we kept doing it anyway. Not until their leaders gave us unconditional surrender, on our terms nad our terms only.
Our politicans are a weak breed and I really fail to understand why they keep refusing to believe that they can solve these issues if they are willing to be the bad guys.
They are paid and paid well to make these decisions, not the citizenry. Islam is evil, but as long as Muslim people continue to enable it we have to kill them too.
After WWII the Germans realized that Nazism was evil and they do not tolerate it at all within their borders. If the Muslim citizenry wants to enable it in their countries, then maybe we need to ‘thin the herd’ so to speak.
Thanks...just ordered The Story of a Childhood from Amazon.
>>The end of the film should have posted: We all need to kill all of the Islamofascists so this can never happen again. Not negotiate; decimate. <<
Decimate only means removing one tenth.
10% isn’t a solution, only 100% is.
You’re welcome. :)
>After WWII the Germans realized that Nazism was evil and they do not tolerate it at all within their borders.<
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For the sake of not being perceived as intolerant they now bend over for Islam which is just as bad as Naziism. The neo-nazis target Islam — whose side should the German people take?
Communism. Although, to be frank, I wouldn’t blame anyone for turning to Neo-Nazism.
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