Hacksaw Ridge (PART 2)

 

Hacksaw Ridge (PART 2)

【Himiko's Monologue】


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Kato has watched 1,712 movies at the Vancouver Public Library so far.

When I take a look at the above movie list, I notice a film called "Osama."

At first, I thought that it was about Osama bin Laden.

Although the title of the film highlights an allegorical relevance to Osama bin Laden, there is no further similarity.


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■"Actual Page"


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In the above film, the Taliban are ruling Afghanistan.

Their regime is especially repressive for women, who, among other things, are not allowed to work.

This situation becomes difficult for one family consisting solely of three women, representing three successive generations: a young girl, her mother, and her grandmother.

With the mother's husband and uncle dead, having been killed in battle during the Soviet invasion and their civil wars, there are no men left to support the family.

The mother had been working as a nurse in a hospital, but the Taliban cut off funding to the hospital, leaving it completely dysfunctional with no medicines and very little equipment.

One foreign woman working as a nurse in the hospital is arrested by the Taliban.

The mother does some nursing outside the hospital and receives payment from the caretaker of a patient, but after the patient dies the mother cannot find any more work.

The mother and grandmother then make what they feel is the only decision they can to survive.

They will have their preteen daughter disguise herself as a boy so that she can get a job to support the family.


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Osama’s grandmother tells a story to Osama about a boy who changed to a girl when he went under a rainbow, in order to help persuade her to accept the plan.

The daughter, feeling powerless, agrees despite being afraid that the Taliban will kill her if they discover her masquerade.

Partly as a symbolic measure, the daughter plants a lock of her now cut hair in a flowerpot.

The only people outside the family who know of the ruse are the milk vendor who employs the daughter.

This vendor was a friend of her deceased father.

A local boy named Espandi recognizes her despite her outward change in appearance.


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The masquerade becomes more difficult when the Taliban recruit all the local boys for school, which includes military training.

At the training school, they are taught how to fight and conduct ablutions, and an ablution is taught to boys that should be done when they experience nocturnal emission or come in contact with their wife when they grow older.


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Osama attempts to avoid joining the ablution session, and the master grows suspicious of Osama’s gender.

Osama realizes it can only be so long before she is found out.

Several of the boys begin to pick on her, and although Espandi is at first able to protect her, her secret is eventually discovered when she menstruates.

Osama is arrested and put on trial, along with a Western journalist, and the foreign woman who was arrested in the hospital.

The journalist and the nurse are both condemned and put to death, but, as Osama is destitute and helpless, her life is spared.

She is instead given in marriage to a much older man.

Osama's new husband already has three wives, all of whom hate him and say he has destroyed their lives.

They take pity on Osama, but are powerless to help her.

The husband shows Osama the padlocks he uses on his wives' rooms, reserving the largest for Osama.

The film ends with the new husband conducting an ablution in an outdoor bath, which the boys were earlier taught to conduct after coming in contact with their wives.

That's about it.

In any case, I expect Kato will write another interesting article soon.

So please come back to see me.

Have a nice day!

Bye bye ...


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If you've got some time,

Please read one of the following artciles:




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■"Glorious Summer"

■"Biker Babe & Granny"

■"Genetically Modified"

■"Tyrannosaur"

■"Love@Magic"

■"Yellow Ball"

■"Welcome Back"

■"Forbidden Love"

■"Merry X'Mas"

■"Heaven with Mochi"

■"Travel Expense Scandal"

■"Love@Redemption"


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■"JAGEL"

■"JAGEL Again"

■"Say NO!"

■Happy Gal in Canada

■Roof of Vancouver

■Aftershock

■Whiplash

■Sex Appeal

■Better Off Without Senate

■Fire Festival

■Sweets@Paris

■Scary Quake

■MH370 Mystery

■Putin's Way

■Trump @ Vancouver

■Otter & Trump


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■Changeling

■Fiddler on the Roof

■Flesh and Bone

■Maiden's Prayer

■Romeo & Juliet

■Trump @ Joke

■Halloween in Shibuya

■Trump Shock

■Happy New Year!


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■Life or Death

■Way to Millionaire

■Adele Hugo

■Middle Sexes

■Romance@Madison



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Hi, I'm June Adams.

Kato is a real movie lover, who tries to watch 1001 movies.

As a matter of fact, he has already accomplished his goal.


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■『Actual List』


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Kato watched "The Arabian Nights" or "One Thousand and One Nights" as his 1001th movie.

You might just as well want to view it.


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The stories in "the Arabian Nights" were collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West, Central, and South Asia and North Africa.

The tales themselves trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Indian, Egyptian and Mesopotamian folklore and literature.

In particular, many tales were originally folk stories from the Caliphate era, while others, especially the frame story, are most probably drawn from the Pahlavi Persian work Hazār Afsān which in turn relied partly on Indian elements.

What is common throughout all the editions of the Nights is the initial frame story of the ruler Shahryār and his wife Scheherazade and the framing device incorporated throughout the tales themselves.

The stories proceed from this original tale.

Some are framed within other tales, while others begin and end of their own accord.

Some editions contain only a few hundred nights, while others include 1,001 or more.


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ところで、愛とロマンに満ちた

レンゲさんのお話をまとめて

『レンゲ物語』を作りました。

もし、レンゲさんの記事をまとめて読みたいならば、

次のリンクをクリックしてくださいね。

■『愛とロマンのレンゲ物語』


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■『軽井沢タリアセン夫人 - 小百合物語』

とにかく、今日も一日楽しく愉快に

ネットサーフィンしましょうね。

じゃあね。




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『スパマー　HIRO　中野　悪徳業者』

 


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