Don't just see a movie, see a moving picture.

Posted July 2, 2009 at 12:29 PM

http://exurbanleague.com/2009/07/02/movie-weekend.aspx?ref=rss

July 4th weekend is usually a time for good-ol' shoot-'em-up, splodey-boom-boom popcorn fare. But if you want to deeply impact the direction of Hollywood, consider seeing another type of movie:

The Stoning of Soraya M. is a "Schindler's List" for a new generation — a film that starkly exposes the brutality of a regime that is almost impossible for the modern Western mind to comprehend, but is true nonetheless. It won't be seen as that, I fear, by the elites in modern American culture. After all, it condemns an immoral Iranian culture and power structure the enlightened President Obama is trying to respectfully engage...

If The Stoning of Soraya M. has one enduring message, it is that Iran under Sharia Law is as savage, brutal and unfree as any society in modern memory. And the fact that this is happening to women (and men) in Iran, even today, should be an international shame. These atrocities have to end. And it is perhaps divine providence that this film debuts in the same month that young Iranians are taking to the streets and enduring the bullets of their oppressors to topple their barbaric regime.

Needless to say, liberal movie critics are shocked and appalled since the bad guys are neither Evangelical Christians nor American soldiers. If this film finds a strong audience, maybe Hollywood will reconsider their lazy tropes and go-to bogeymen.

(Via Infinite Monkeys)