i be not go to give an account of the plot of the movie and which accord to some other reviewer on this forum and i may add that i agree with them in word be very simple . the simplicity of the brutality that be bring upon the afghan people by the taliban of course do not need many word to convey . everyone who have hear of the word oppression and religious extremism and and brutality can give an account of the dreadful reign of the taliban over afghanistan . so and i be totally amaze by the and dare i say and shallow perspective of some reviewer here that take this simplicity a a weakness of the movie . i do not think that the simplicity and or or familiarity of the plot tell anything about the strength or the weakness of the movie and nor do it decrease the gravity of the story . another alleged weakness of the movie i wish to dispel be it slow pace . i hardly see why that could be regard a a weakness when in all it second the movie be convey so much ( visual ) emotion and from such a close shot . you get to see the real as far a my experience go behaviour of the mullah and the real mechanism by which they take hold of the vortex of power in such a war ridden land . on a slightly different note and i be quite surprised to read the feature review on the first page of the movie info and eyal philippsborn write be it the setting or do the taliban also ban the building of house with roof . well and be it the setting or the catastrophe of about 30 year of civil war and social chaos and eyal . another express criticism i read in the previous review be that such deep and engulf sense of misery can not possibly be the truth . this be an attempt to reduce the level of the movie to some sort of intellectual propaganda . i have to completely disagree . for two reason represent first of all and in the limited time span of a movie and one can not possible hope to see all aspect of life . the director have to choose what s or he want to show and convey and and quite understandably this movie be about the plague bring upon an entire nation by the taliban . and secondly and even though the movie mainly focus on the miserable life of it character in such surrealistic to the western eye setting and it do show tiny glimpse of the beauty of life represent the lullaby that the grandma sings to put the little girl to sleep and or the joyful and threatening espandi ( the boy with the smoke bucket of wild rue [ epand in persian or dari ] ) who turn into a supporter of the little girl when she overwhelm by the aggressive and intrusive boy in the taliban quranic school . i be not an expert on the more techy part of the movie making business and but a an avid movie goer and i could not pinpoint any particular weakness in term of camera work and plot and etc . i tend to think that the complaint the movie receive on these aspect be a more or less direct result of a state of be spoil by the glamorous hollywood driven movie industry . the only real drawback to the movie be it subtitle . eyal also note in the above mention feature review that the opening quote of the movie be obviously and i think unnecessarily alter in the caption . the real quote be by ali shariati and the celebrated idealogue of the islamic revolution in iran who die before he could see it happen which say represent [ oh and god and ] put me among those who give away their worldly desire for their religious one and not those who give away their religious desire for their worldly one . this be turn into a concise quote by mandela instead represent i can not forget and but i can forgive . not the same thing at all and and i be not really sure i would say imply the same thing either . the quote by shariati be in fact very suggestive and and ambiguous in the context of the movie . finally and yes and the movie be grim and and hard to take and but far from dull or artificial . overall and osama be a big step into the real examination of the misery of a people who have be deprive even of a glimpse of a normal life by the almost cosmological force of the international politics .