I have a question about the ending though. I didn't get the part when the mullah came home, and was in the room with Osama and got out some chains???
The lighting was very dark in this part and I couldn't see exactly what he was holding.
Remember the part where he said.."Choose, Choose....what was that all about?
Laura
Posted by satanmademedoit (Member # 11766) on :
Hiya Laura!
Pretty shocking film for me.
Okay,he was telling her to choose which padlock she wanted to be locked up with for the rest of her life..ie..under his control..he was locking them in different rooms.
Sick f..k..he was/is, the end bit with him in the bath made me so mad!
Posted by Laura (Member # 879) on :
Thanks for the clarification satanmademedoit.
Do you speak arabic? Just asking because I was wondering how acurate the subtitles were.
I really had such a sick feeling to my stomach for quite some time after watching this film.
Posted by satanmademedoit (Member # 11766) on :
Yeah,made an impact on me too!
I speak a little Arabic. You are right,some of the subtitles did not make sense but the pictures were enough to see the horror that was going on.
Sad thing is,this happens and also to a lesser degree here in Egypt.
Posted by Princess_Leia (Member # 12077) on :
The movie was done in Afghan, not arabi. And since this town is in the north it would be pushtin and the language of the pushtins.
And there was a revolt, demonstration in the north by widowed women and orphaned children. It was on the news and thee first report of the horrors of the Taliban. The Taliban militia that day shot and killed hundreds of women and children in this demonstration. Not that hundreds of widows and orphans turned out for the demonstration, no the taliban had squestered the widows into a district months before hand and there the militia shot them down in their own homes.
Posted by chimps .. (Member # 11270) on :
PATTAANS -----------PASHTU..... There are two major dialects of Pashto: Western Pashto spoken in Afghanistan and in the capital, Kabul, and Eastern Pashto spoken in northeastern Pakistan. Most speakers of Pashto speak these two dialects. Two other dialects are also distinguished: Southern Pashto, spoken in Baluchistan (western Pakistan and eastern Iran) and in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
The variation in spelling of the language's name (Pashto, Pukhto, etc.)
I PREFER TO BE IT KNOWN AS PASHTU .....
Posted by Princess_Leia (Member # 12077) on :
quote:Originally posted by chimps ..: PATTAANS -----------PASHTU..... There are two major dialects of Pashto: Western Pashto spoken in Afghanistan and in the capital, Kabul, and Eastern Pashto spoken in northeastern Pakistan. Most speakers of Pashto speak these two dialects. Two other dialects are also distinguished: Southern Pashto, spoken in Baluchistan (western Pakistan and eastern Iran) and in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
The variation in spelling of the language's name (Pashto, Pukhto, etc.)
I PREFER TO BE IT KNOWN AS PASHTU .....
Well I couldn't remember the correct name of the dialect, it wasn't a copy and paste it was from memory.
The people are called pushtins, at least that is how it was worded in a handful of books I had read on the Hazaras.
Sorry to get it mixed up, I have only read so much on Afghanistan.
Posted by chimps .. (Member # 11270) on :
WASNT GETTING AT YOU OK ,,I KNEW ANY WAY WHAT THEY NORMALY LIKE TO BE KNOWN AS ...TAKE CARE ....CHIMPS.. ,take no notice of the angry graemlin ..hope ur well .
Posted by Princess_Leia (Member # 12077) on :
quote:Originally posted by chimps ..: WASNT GETTING AT YOU OK ,,I KNEW ANY WAY WHAT THEY NORMALY LIKE TO BE KNOWN AS ...TAKE CARE ....CHIMPS.. ,take no notice of the angry graemlin ..hope ur well .
I am having a much better winter, and I hope you and your daughter are happy and healthy too.
I am a huge fan of contemporary Afghan Sufis, I know of one who is a few years older than me, a hunk and basically one of the wisest people I have read about. But for the life of me I can't remember his name, only remember his face.
Posted by With a name like Smuckers (Member # 10289) on :
quote:Originally posted by Laura: I see it's going to be on the Movie Channel this friday.
Any comments from those who have seen it? Good, bad, not worth watching?
sad movie, saw it once, don't plan to again...
Posted by Tream Lefty (Member # 6244) on :
Very difficult movie to watch. Everything I've read or watched out of Afghanistan (not that I've read/seen that much) has been horribly heartbreaking. Posted by MK the Most Interlectual (Member # 8356) on :
I saw two Afghan movies in my life, and then I thought never again.
They are always based on real stories and although I saw them years ago, I still have a heartache remembering the events.
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,take no notice of the angry graemlin ..hope ur well .