Today my world cultures class finished watching a movie that is based off of a true story of what happened in a small village in Iran after Amadinijad became irans leader. Amadinijad changed the ways in Iran from freedom for women to rules and hardship. A womans sister told a French journalist about what happened to her sister. Her sister was married to a man who wanted another. She had four children with this man and he wanted this other girl so much that he accused his wife of adultery and forced some to be false witnesses. The wife is proven guilty and stoned to death (which the movie showed vividly and realistically) by the whole town. By stoning her the men thought that with every rock they threw the more little pieces of honor they got back. She was murdered on false witness and nobody knew until the husband came back and told everyone that the girl that he wanted's father died.
After we watched this movie there was a mix of emotion among my peers. A few were silently crying, some seemed to be fuming, others laughing (dumbies who don't understand life), and those like me sitting stunned, angry, understanding, sad... Everything.
People in America and other places don't seem to get that that is occuring still and that it's actually a part of peoples cultures. Yes it's brutal and crude but it's life.
We need to wake up from our spoiled dream land and just learn to understand.
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