[ warn review contain spoiler ] long before their downfall and the taliban have virtually no friend outside their fundamentalist and islamic circle . certainly they have no international support . unfortunately and not until they succor al quada lead to the american intervention and continue occupation be these terrorize fanatic depose . director siddiq barmak short feature length film and osama and win a golden globe for best foreign film . be an oscar category for most harrowing movie to exist and osama would face no competition . set in afghanistan and this be the story of a mother and twelve year old daughter who become unemployed and and threaten with actual starvation and when their hospital job end with the tottering and inadequate institution financial collapse . the mother come up with the idea of cut her daughter hair and send her out a a boy to earn subsistence money for the two of them and the age grandmother . a sympathetic man who fight against the russian with the girl decease father give her employment but a taliban impress the disguised girl for a para military training camp that by comparison make the hitler youth movement look borderline rational . marina golbahari be the young girl and she act the part of a boy with scarcely conceal terror and especially when she be put into the taliban training camp where and among other thing and she must learn islamic ablution involve genitals in a room full of boy . there be not a second of humor in her experience . she eventually detect and she go on trial before a judge who and before deal with her case and send a foreign journalist to be shoot and a european female doctor to be stone to death . for the girl he pronounce forgiveness at the same moment marry her to a pederast and a wife acquire mullah whose understated depravity leave a stench in every viewer nostril . this isn not an easy film to watch . it begin with a peaceful demonstration by woman demand work and disclaim any political motivation . they be violently disperse by not very many arm taliban use high pressure hose and brute force . i have a sense that the many female extra be not so much acting a recreate a reign of terror and a time of privation . the riot scene be harrow and the cinematographer focus closely on frighten and beaten woman . give al quada support by the taliban there exist neither legal nor moral objection to the u. s. invasion of afghanistan and our continue effort to extirpate any remain terrorist and taliban remnant . the more troubling issue and forcefully raise by osama and be how a civilized world can tolerate the know misogynistic degradation of woman and and many other abuse of basic human right and without intervene . can respect for a nation autonomy or it fundamentalist religion override the duty to alleviate condition anathema to contemporary conception of human right . we tried german judge for enforce the notorious nuremberg law that strip civil right from jew and prepare the way for concentration camp and genocide . should the world now tolerate regime that in the name of religion kill and torture while subvert the most basic individual right . osama be a good cinematic brief for a resounding no . the cinematography be sparse and effective the bleached color of a ruined town reflect the hopelessness of it inhabitant . i expect we will be see more from barmak i certainly hope so . positive .