Stoning of Soraya M
I watched two movies in the recent past which dealt with two different present day problems. The first movie is ‘Stoning of Soraya M’ is extremely bold and emotionally disturbing. I am unable to express in words my emotional state after watching it. Some of the scenes are so bold and true and violent that I had to fast forward them. The movie is from a real life story happened in a village in Iran in 1986 after the Shah was overthrown and Islamists take over the country - where a young woman was stoned to death by her husband, father, sons and neighbors and extended families. Her abusive husband of 20 years plotted with the village head clergy and Mayor to kill her by stoning accusing her of trying to seduce another man. The only fault of that woman was that she decided against divorcing her husband which would result to death by starvation along with her two daughters. The story was licked to the world by her extremely courageous aunt to a French journalist. I think the movie is ...