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 Barnes & Noble In this muted, surreal road-trip film by Iranian director Moshen Makhmalbaf, Afghanistan is laid bare as the tortured product of superpower occupation, fundamentalist oppression, and tribal warfare. Made prior to September 11, 2001, Kandahar follows the journey of an Afghan journalist living in Canada (Nelofer Pazira) as she travels into Afghanistan to save her sister, who has written that she will commit suicide during the last solar eclipse of the 20th century. The journalist then experiences firsthand the oppression of women by the Taliban, which is essentially what has driven her sister to the point of suicide. This strife is no more powerfully illustrated than in scenes with a doctor who can examine female patients only through a tiny hole in a cloth partition, which, like the mesh in the burka that allows the veiled Afghan women to see, becomes a powerful recurring metaphor for prison bars. Like Makhmalbafs other films, Kandahar is marked by unusual blends of fact and fiction, reality and dramatization. Pazira herself is an Afghan who lives in Canada and contacted Makhmalbaf to help her enter Afghanistan to help a suicidal friend. Gregory Baird Interested in the song lyrics? - Check out themostlyrics.com! Looking For A DVD? - Check out dvd-a-rama.com! |
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