The film is “Osama” – the first film produced in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban.
“This 2004 Golden Globe award winner for Best Foreign Language film, directed by Afghani Siddiq Barmak, is a stunning indictment of the repressive, fundamentalist Taliban regime and its treatment of women. Filmed on a shoestring budget, the film is a composite of a number of true stories, coalescing into one. It is harrowing look at a feudal sort of government that equated women with little more than chattel. Forced to be totally dependent on men, the question arises as to what would be their fate, if all the men in their world were to no longer be there for them.” [Customer Review, Amazon]
To sacrifice and struggle in helping a people defeat oppression is a noble cause. Whether we should do it, I do not believe can be questioned. Whether we are doing it right, I don’t know enough to answer.
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