BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Joao Antonio (joaotony97) The movie brings a reality of the women in Afghanistan to show very clearly how it is being a girl when your world is dominated by Taliban rules. Therefore, the movie collapses a message while is discussing gender rules and woman rights to work, in a implicit way, surrounded by a state of violence, misogyny and intolerance in a different cultural specter. This is a very interesting aspect that you realize by watching a foreign movie, so you can understand others life and see that exists different places, people and their social dilemmas, and all this subjects that you ignore comes out of the dark, moving your thoughts to the direction of comprehend society, values and ways to think in dominance and subjectivity control. Also, it has a genius ending that you can't expect if it is going to be a good a bad outcome to the main character, and then, like it was surprisingly obvious, as the movie approaches reality, you get a real end. This is an amazing movie from a country that I didn't expect to produce such an intense piece of work, and that makes you think about many aspects outside your familiar social zone.

juneebuggy Whoa, this was heartbreaking. Showing the plight of three generations of women in Afghanistan living under Taliban rule. Some of the scenes are cinematically beautiful, like the opening one where hundreds of women are protesting (the right to work) dressed in blue against the bleak desert landscape.Ultimately though this is just depressing as we follow a 12 year old girl posing as a boy in order to be able to leave her house without a legal (male) companion in order to support her mother and grandmother who've both been widowed. She cuts her hair, changes her clothes and begins working in a tea shop. She is terrified. Before long the Taliban start recruiting young boys (by force) to their Koran schools and the other students soon begin to suspect that she is a girl. The actress that plays Golbahari/Osama, her face shows such fear and despair throughout. And the ending, Oh damn....horrific, haunting and unforgettable. 6/6/14

Desertman84 Osama is a film made in Afghanistan by Siddiq Barmak.The story was about a girl living in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime that disguises herself as a boy, Osama, to support her family.This all-Afghan feature stars Marina Golbahari,Arif Herati,Zubaida Sahar and Khwaja Nader It was the first film to be shot entirely in Afghanistan since 1996 - the year when the Taliban regime banned the creation of all films.It is the first all-Afghan feature released since the end of the Taliban rule. Osama's story starts in the early days of the regime.A young girl and her widowed mother participate in a demonstration for women's right to work. When the demonstration is broken up by the Taliban, they hide out with local street kid Espandi. When the Taliban take over a hospital where the mother secretly works, they are arrested and jailed. In order to go to work, the mother dresses the young girl as a boy. Forced to attend school, the girl reunites with Espandi, who refers to her as Osama.Osama is both heartwarming and heartbreaking in the sense that it provides the viewer the what Afghan life is all about particularly those of women.It is is bitterly honest about what life in Afgahnistan is all about during the rise and fall of the Talian.It was also deeply disturbing especially with the conditions and predicament that people have to go through.Barmak also proves that he is a talented and creative director.He made a very emotional film whose power cannot be denied.Overall,it is movie that is worth watching especially when it gives us a realistic view about a foreign culture and life in a foreign country.

monise77 As a woman whose great-grandparents fled from the Middle East to Mexico; and then my parents illegally crossed into the United States I can only say thank you to all that made this film possible and for sharing a glimpse of what I was spared from. Regardless if the Taliban was aided by the USA or not this film is excellent and an eye opener. This movie should be watched by all and for many it will be the beginning of a new interest in a country that has no government, infrastructure, nor social or health welfare. You might need to watch it twice to glean from it all of injustices and abuses of the Koran, especially to the widows in which this country has many since most men die. It should not be taken to extremes in the sense that we hate the persecutors, but consider what should be done to help the people for their sake and ours.