The Stoning of Soraya M.

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Shohreh Aghdashloo heads up this tragic and ferocious film, The Stoning of Soraya M.. Co-starring Jim Caviezel and Mozhan Marno in the title role, the film tells the story of a woman placed in an arranged marriage who's endures abuse only to have her life end tragically. Aghdashloo who plays Zahra, Soraya's aunt, tells the story to a man who's car breaks down in her village. The film is carried by the performance of Shohreh Agdashloo, who arguably should have won an Oscar for her stunning work in House of Sand and Fog. The narrative, however, is so violent, brutal, and completely chilling, it's actually off-putting to the viewer. As we watch this woman endure this torment and abuse from her husband and even her children, all before even the stoning occurs, it becomes a bit too much for audiences to handle. This is based on a true story and in many ways, it needed to be told. Although, if you're an educated person, you would know the woman's battle in the middle east (and of course, right here on our main land sometimes too) but the way director Cyrus Nowrasteh presents the material is terrifying. Getting the viewer's attention is the easiest task when performing such an act of honesty and raw natural spirit demonstrated by Aghdashloo and Marno. Those two are brilliant in their respective roles. The film is gripping and intense with a heart-wrenching third act but it's so vicious, you might need to disengage from the cinematic experience just give yourself a dose of reality, whatever your reality may be. The score and cinematography are superb and of course, the performances are as powerful as they are distressing. If you can stomach the film, it's definitely worth a watch. But don't look for any happy endings here. You won't find it. **½/****

"The Stoning of Soraya", by far is too embarrassing and shameful. I felt deeply sorry for those so called actors and actresses who happened most of them to be Iranian. you just sold your people, your culture and your country for a fist of dollars coming from oil hungry companies who are trying to show a wild image of one of the oldest civilization in earth in order to rob its resources as they did and do in Pakistan, Afghanistan, south America and Arab countries. I would like to congratulate them for doing a job that no Arab, Afghan or Pakistanis dare to do. the countries who are way far strict and fanatic in Islamic rules and this thing happen more often there. but why should western media care as long as the resources are exploited and governments are their puppets? as a person born to an Iranian family, the only thing I share with this movie is the language. I was impressed how someone who was not born in Iran and haven't been even once there, made me so familiar with my country... bravo!

I'm still living in Iran and I'm one of the opponents of the current Iranian Islamic government. However I'm surprised how negligent people are about what is really going on in Iran and how much far is this movie from the reality. Stoning is regarded as one of the most hated and disgusting governmental punishments by the great majority of Iranians. It has been performed in a few cases by some selected most backward governmental agents after the Islamic revolution. Yet the film shows that almost all people in the village including her father and kids are happy with stoning a woman in the middle of the village! Anybody who has a little knowledge about Iranian people would get surprised by the view this film tries to portrait of Iranian people. At least Shohreh Aghdashloo has been raised in Iran! How can she ever imagine an Iranian kid stoning her mother half buried in soil!? And to let you know family bonds and emotional relations in Iran are much more powerful than most western countries, even though this is sometimes even a drawback! I know this film tries politically to condemn the awful act of stoning but it ends up in giving a wrong picture of Iranian people. It tries to make a scene just like movies from medieval times when priests burned women while crowds cheered happily but it is not what is really happening in Iran right now. People hate Mullahs and their laws and their acts. Shohreh Aghdashloo should think again about how many artists are ready to present such a disgusting picture about their own nations to other countries! It is really a shame for an artist. Apart from the wrong connotations of this movie I think that the artistic part of the movie is also very lame, acts and dialogues are very naive and synthetic and it is of a very poor quality.

The Stoning of Soraya M. was recently pre-screened in San Francisco. Earlier this week, I was reading about the history of Iran on Wikipedia when several clicks later, I found myself on a page dealing with the stoning of women, mentioning the film about Soraya. The filmmaker is honest and sensible in the telling of the tale, with atrocities to be found in the subtleties throughout the film. This is a film in subtitles, with French and English spoken intermittently. The visual provides most of the storytelling and even my son could comprehend mostly through watching the scenes. It is best that the story (and it people) are left to unfold in your presence. The Stoning of Soraya M. is a very sincere film; it has a lasting impression as if as a cross between The English Patient and Dancer in the Dark. The obvious conclusion is dramatic in its realism, with the first throw causing a few to leave, overwhelmed before it became overwhelming. My son sat through the entire movie; I assure you that you can also bear compassionate witness. For those of us in the West, it is good for us to see the cruelty that is commonplace elsewhere; because how else can we effectively advocate change if we refuse awareness of what we oppose? .... A rare, relevant and honest film. * Not recommended for children or even young teens, though my son is the rare exception. Additionally, the film has many quiet, meaningful moments and so those that snore at movies should kindly wait until the DVD is out.

It's interesting to see a film where the majority of the reviews seem to be less about the film and more about the film's subject matter, as if they are so regaled by the subject matter that they forget to review the actual film itself. As a film, The Stoning of Soraya M is sheer exploitation. The characters are one-dimensional with motivations as simple as their dialogue, and the acting is uneven at best. Marno is convincing as a woman struggling to survive in a society in which women have been reduced to the status of chattel – although her role is so simple that she is not expected to do very much. Aghdashloo is clearly the main attraction in the film as the fiery-tongue aunt who passive-aggressively rails against an injustice of a cultural magnitude. Everyone else, on the other hand, just come across as over-the-top caricatures - clearly a failure of the script and the direction. Soraya's stoning scene is, as expected, completely gratuitous. We know she gets stoned – it's the name of the film. In fact, in spite of all the supposed 'outrage' about the topic of 'stoning', that is what the audience is paying to see. The film uses this to its advantage by turning Soraya's stoning scene into a long and graphic torture *. It's used to climax the film and the audience, as if this kind of voyeurism is perfectly palatable if you can attach some sketchy politics to why it is shown. And politics is what this film is really about, because it's impossible to divorce the film from the contemporary political climate of 'Islamophobia', national insecurities and infinite war justified in part through rhetoric of 'liberation' that serves as the context of its release - which is what the filmmakers are counting on. It is why so many commentators and reviewers read this film as if it was a documentary rather than a fictionalized narrative adapted from a book that was supposedly based on a second-hand account of an incident which reportedly occurred some 20 years ago. 'Stoning' has always been a controversial practice in Iran, even when it was introduced in Iran through its Islamic penal code in 1983. It has already been suspended for almost a decade by the Iranian judiciary, who are now contemplating whether the practice should be outlawed altogether. It's an issue that has generated enormous national debates, almost akin to how some deeply divisive issues, like capital punishment or abortion, are taken up in countries like the US, with some members of the clergy in Iran having spoken out to condemn the practice. Of course, this is not to imply that the current Islamic Republic is some sort of paragon of international human rights. That people can be legally punished for supposed 'moral crimes' like 'adultery', 'promiscuity', or homosexuality, should be seen as an inherent violation of humanity. But this film does not aim to educate. It aims to entertain by sensationalizing the sight of a women buried from the waist down and used as a human piñata - something that might just as easily be a random scene in any run-of-the-mill Hollywood budget horror flick. It also aims to mobilize - and here is where it is most unethical - by appealing to a dodgy liberal sense of ethics with a dash of ignorance about modernity's 'other' that can be aligned with certain political constituencies in 'the West' that, much like the antagonists in this film, already place differential values on human life by their very actions and words.