Osama is incredibly difficult viewing, but it’s a truly valuable work of art that deserves to be preserved.This website needs JavaScript to work properly. The fear that she embodies is almost too real to watch without becoming afraid yourself.
And in the lead role, a teenage Marina Golbahari delivers a towering, heartbreaking performance that never registers as anything but authentic. It’s a simple film wherein this character’s budding awareness of her girlhood is set against a terrifying backdrop of violence, abuse, and fundamentalist extremism-all of which director Siddiq Barmak keeps off the screen.īarmak knows exactly what to point his camera at, covering multiple angles of life in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan without calling attention to himself, and still finding ways to show the smallest shreds of sympathy and support hiding within this society. This is a profoundly depressing but beautifully crafted story of a young girl made to look like a boy so as to go unnoticed by Taliban forces while trying to help her family. It has become increasingly rare to find films made in Afghanistan, so when a movie like Osama comes along, it becomes nothing short of essential viewing. It’s also a complicated reflection on the ways in which women’s pain is disregarded and minimized, and what the loss of invisible agency looks like when it begins to manifest outward. Todd Haynes’ Safe is an unnerving examination at our relationship with the environment-and in an increasingly modernized world, how much we can tolerate of what we create: white noise, toxins, busy work, everyday poisons, monotonous obligations. Struggling to breathe, Carol winds up in the hospital, seeing doctors and psychologists trying to diagnose what’s wrong and whether her mystery illness is physiological or psychological. Afterward, Carol’s nose won’t stop bleeding. Then she begins coughing, and she experiences a violent asthma attack while driving on the freeway. Her husband’s job is going well, her step-son is pleasant, and her social life consists of boutique lunches, fruit-filled diets, and lavishly pink baby showers-all is well on this side of the white picket fence.
She’s a well-off housewife living in the picturesque suburbs of Los Angeles.
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