In class on thursday we watched an Iraqi movie titled "Two Women". In short, the movie was about two female characters, Roya and Fereshteh, following them from school where they met and became best friends, to Fereshteh's awful marriage to a horrible and degrading man, to how Fereshteh, in the end, ends up with her freedom back.
The movie surprised me in the way that this movie portrayed a most likely common marriage that was unfair. Fereshteh was married off to someone she did not love, and did not want to marry. Her husband was horrible to her. Fereshteh started off in the movie very headstrong, knowledgeable, and independant. Her husband, however, stripped her of all this. He would belittle her, ridicule her, and pretty much make her feel like complete crap.
I'm guessing this is a common issue in Iraq. The women get married off and no matter what cannot get away from someone who is emotionally abusive. Just because a man pays the bills and takes care of children doesn't mean he is a good person. This man was awful!
In the end, her husband gets put into the hospital, and dies, leavinf Fereshteh and her two children on their own, which Fereshteh is only too happy about :)
I would definitely reccomend this movie to any class learning about the modern Middle East. The movie was interesting, and not out-dated. I liked it alot :)
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I don't know if I would go as far as to say Fereshteh was happy, although I am sure parts of her were. For me, I saw her as a scared, confused woman, who after years of emotional abuse had lost her sense of identity.
ReplyDeletei totally agree with kristen here i highly doubt you would honestly be able to fnd happiness anywhere at any point in the film other than when she was at school before the stalker appeared.
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