This may be the most controversial work by Islam critic and director Theo van Gogh and may have been one of the crucial reasons for his assassination through a Muslim extremist, who intended to keep the sequel implied by the title from happening at all costs, only little more than two months after the release of the film.
We see a faithful Islamic woman's eyes (the rest is covered by a veil) with Koran verses tattooed to her skin, who tells us about several ways of gender discrimination including extremely violent punishments after committing adultery, being forced to marry a guy she feels nothing for at all at the age of 16, being constantly hit by her husband, being forced to stay inside unless it's absolutely necessary to leave the house and only completely covered from head to toe.
We also hear about her dreams, how she's urging to feel the wind in her hair, but knows she never will. This film offers strong criticism towards the role of Islamic women in society leading despicable lives and being discriminated against in all kinds of ways you can't and even and don't want to imagine, one of the most atrocious forms for being humiliated during their menstrual cycle. It's a sad state of affairs and there's hardly any light at the end of the tunnel, but maybe this film will help society to keep an eye on it at least to some extent, so van Gogh didn't pay with his life for nothing.
We see a faithful Islamic woman's eyes (the rest is covered by a veil) with Koran verses tattooed to her skin, who tells us about several ways of gender discrimination including extremely violent punishments after committing adultery, being forced to marry a guy she feels nothing for at all at the age of 16, being constantly hit by her husband, being forced to stay inside unless it's absolutely necessary to leave the house and only completely covered from head to toe.
We also hear about her dreams, how she's urging to feel the wind in her hair, but knows she never will. This film offers strong criticism towards the role of Islamic women in society leading despicable lives and being discriminated against in all kinds of ways you can't and even and don't want to imagine, one of the most atrocious forms for being humiliated during their menstrual cycle. It's a sad state of affairs and there's hardly any light at the end of the tunnel, but maybe this film will help society to keep an eye on it at least to some extent, so van Gogh didn't pay with his life for nothing.