Hello everyone,
Due to some unfortunate scheduling conflicts,
we need to move our movie showing this week
to Thursday.
For this Thursday, we are showing an Australian
documentary movie "Forbidden Lies", directed by Anna Broinowski
(more details below).
Please feel free to pass the message around and
invite your friends. Hope you can join us.
Regards,
Tom Co
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Title: Forbidden Lies
Date and Time: Thursday, August 7, 6:30-9
Place: 308 Cooper Ave, Hancock
Director: Anna Broinowski
Partial List of Characters:
Norma Khouri
Malcolm Knox
Rana Husseini
Caroline Overington
Jon Yates
Ed Torian
Frank Bochte
Dawn Lawkowski
US Rating: not rated (I think it is PG13)
Language: English and Arabic (with English subtitles)
Length: 104 mins
Media: DVD, color
Summary: (from www.wikipedia.org)
"Forbidden Lie$ tells the story of Norma Khouri,
author of the book Forbidden Love, purportedly
the true story of "Dalia", a young Muslim woman
in Jordan murdered by her family in an honor
killing because of her affair with a Christian
soldier. The documentary first depicts Khouri
as a woman bravely exposing a brutal and true story.
Eventually, her account is challenged, first by
Jordanians, then by Malcolm Knox, an Australian
journalist..."
My Comments:
Described as "dramatized documentary", the film
feels a little surrealistic because the main character
appear to be cooperating with a film that is apparently
calling her a liar, which she denies. The film
made me feel uneasy because I do not like the idea of
"honor killing" at all, but I do not like con artists
taking advantage of these tragedies either.
The film is well paced and kept me engaged, particularly
because Norma Khouri is so slippery and "pathological".
The fact that her book became an international bestseller
is testament that most of us in the world are unfamiliar
with other cultures that we may often be subjected to
fictional accounts and, without sufficient resources, we
rely and even embrace potential lies or exaggerations. This
is a sad situation, because it potentially derails the
fight against the real honor killings that are happening
out there.
Still, the movie is an important reminder to always
question the veracity of the books, movies or news we are
consuming - there is so much "spinning" out there today.
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