this film be the golden gate winner for 2004 best foreign language film . now come on of my great pet peeve about the synopsis and review on the cover of a movie or book or whatever . it a if the people write these review and synopsis have either never even see the film or be just blatantly obtuse or detach from the reality of human suffering . the new york post describe it a powerful and beautiful and simply extraordinary . true it be powerful and it go into great depth of the overwhelming fear of the oppressed and repressed and exploited people of a certain chaste of afghanistan and generate through utilizing torture and every form of abuse and rape and humiliation and and intimidation . and there be nothing simple about this extra ordinary projection of life of the powerless people it portray . and it sure be out of the ordinary as far a standard go for the privileged go and who on the whole do not experience the extraordinary atrocity and all form of denigration these people experience in their daily life . it be hardly beautiful a the woman be subjugate to be summarily round up and imprison on a the slight whim and then beat and rap and bury alive and or a this one woman . stone to death by a gleeful mob after be wrongfully accuse of utter obscenity . bold and beautiful and deeply move ( boxoffice ( who in th e h be they ) ) . i guess you could call it bold for them to interrogate and torture and execute by fire squad ( at least they do not saw off his head in front of million of eager observer and eh . ) for film a documentary on afghanistan life . and we be all painfully aware that they absolutely do not appreciate satire . bombing and death follow . deeply move . their sadistic militaristic manner in which they corral and herd the woman and child that be at a gathering to beseech the government to allow them to work a they be starve to death . they be hose down with torrent of water and fire routinely on by gunfire and throw in cage and beaten and rap and and kill and woman and child alike . and i would say again and it be bold of them to raid the hospital and shooting and destroy everyone and everything inside a everyone that be able be flee in panic . patient and caretaker alike . there be an especially poignant shot of a severely crippled boy of about 5 year of age abandon by the fleeing crowd a he desperately try to hobble along in order to not be leave behind . beautiful ( again ) and so positively state by the director . fill with hope . hope . osama and the girl force to be transform into a role a boy so that she can go unescorted to work in order to bring home a watermelon and a few scrap of meet for the family and be just so filled with this hope a she embark on a terrifying and confuse journey to avoid detection from the taliban ( this be not the journey you or i may take after pay five to ten of thousand of dollar to some guru to become enlightened ) . not . she be full of extreme anxiety and fear and terror ( yes ) and i would daresay she would have love confuse . this journey of hers take all of ten day from the time she work for an old man ( that die because of this kindness ) and be recruit ( forcibly ) into the taliban train camp for boy ( 10 yr up and if not young ) where they teach you the qua run ritual such a how you wash your genitals in three different direction and ( and allah help you if you do not preform each ritual in the exact order and way in which they dictated1 ) and to the time she be discover . she be taunt and tease and hang from a rope suspend over a seemingly bottomless well ( hysterically cry for her mother ) and after which she be jail . at her trial she be sentence to a marriage with the old and the most sadistic and most perverted man of the taliban who take her home to be lock up along with the other woman and child he have abuse to no end . her journey full of hope end with her be all truss up and present to the creep who then ask her to choose which iron chastity belt she would like before brutalizing and rap her ( at the age of 12yrs . remember ) for the rest of her life . and that be just how the movie end . just beautiful and full of hope . in all good conscious end here without mention the unfortunate husband and son who be force to leave their family and home and usually to never be see again . it be certainly an eye opener for me in that these civilian would be abducted anytime day or night and anytime between and a rifle put in their hand and and send off to some obscure place to fight the russian and german and american and whoever . all and all a stunning ( enteertaiment eweekly ) and emotionally charge ( sceen international and and a striking work of cinematic art ( daily news ) . but i be sorry to say that i hardly find it breathtaking ( slant ) and but extraordinarily heartbreaking . nothing short of astonish ( n. y. time ) . do that leave you with the impression it do me . that absolutely no one at the ny time watch this movie . i read this morning . that the heart be an artist that paint over what profoundly disturb you and leave on the canvas and a less dark and less sharp version of the truth . i be an artist and i do not think so . this should be a required film to be see be all those quo be either in denial or be immune to the many inequity that exist in the world since time immoral up into what be now the 21st century and submit with the utmost respect and love . jamie jo jesus i realize i would be hang and burn at the stake and torture and crucify and stone to death and and more if republish this in iraq . if not now . at least then . and if we do not once age rally ourselves to do something about these injustice now . then when .