Hilarious, tragic, stirring, this fly-on-the-wall look at several weeks in an Iranian divorce court provides a unique window into the intimate circumstances of Iranian women's lives. Following Jamileh, whose husband beats her; Ziba, a 16 year old trying to divorce her 38 year old husband; and Maryam, who is desperately fighting to gain custody of her daughters, this deadpan chronicle showcases the strength, ingenuity, and guile with which they confront biased laws, a Kafakaesque administrative system, and their husbands' and families' rage to gain divorces. With the barest of commentary, Longinotto turns her cameras on the court and lets it tell its own story. Dispelling images of Iran as a country of war, hostages, and fatwas, and Iranian women as passive victims of a terrible system, this film is a subtle, fascinating look at women's lives in a country which is little known to most Americans.
From: http://freedocumentaries.org/int.php?filmID=262
See also: http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c454.shtml
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Virgil Gmable
Professor Sabir
English 1B
11 July 2011
Freewrite:
These collection of poems show the emotion on the poets. Even though some of the language was foreign, I was able to get the point that was trying to be made in each poem. The spacing and punctuation had me thinking about the significance as we read through each poem. Some of the language and spacing was dramatic and shocking, like when on poet describes cutting off a head. I think that this collection of poems will have a pattern of language, punctuation and topic as we reading through it.
Ricardo Antonio Chavarria
Professor Sabir
English 1B
11 July 2011
Freewrite: Poetry
I am not used to reading poetry but I think that it is another way for people to express themselves orally and in writing. Poetry is like a type of music without guitars, drums, and other musical instruments. Periods, commas, and exclamation marks are used as guides for the poetry reader to absorb and think about the words beings said. The rhymes used in the certain types of poetry help the poems flow like the guitar riff in a song. The poem Draupadi’s Dharma relates the most to the play Ruined by Lynn Nottage. Both pieces of literature describe the yearning for a normal life during times of war.
Work Cited.
Neelanjana, Banerjee, Summi Kaipa, and Pireeni Sundaralingan, eds. Indivisible: An Anthology
of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry. The University of Arkansas Press
FAYETTEVILLE, 2010. Print.
Nottage, Lynn. Ruined. Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2010
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