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Watch: Osama 2003 123movies, Full Movie Online – The Taliban are ruling Afghanistan, they being a repressive regime especially for women, who, among other things, are not allowed to work. This situation is especially difficult for one family consisting solely of three women representing three successive generations. All the males in their family have died in various Afghani wars. The mother had been working as a nurse in a hospital, but regardless of she not being allowed to work, the Taliban has cut off funding to the hospital. The mother and grandmother make what they feel is the only decision they can to survive: they will have the preteen daughter masquerade as a boy so that she can get a job to support the family. The daughter, feeling powerless, agrees despite being scared as if the Taliban discover her masquerade, she is certain they will kill her. Partly as a symbolic measure, the daughter plants a lock of her now cut hair in a pot so that her lost femininity can flourish. The only people outside the family who know of the ruse are the milk vendor who employs the daughter – he who was a friend of her deceased father – and a local boy named Espandi who recognizes her despite her outward change in appearance. Espandi renames her Osama. The masquerade becomes more difficult when the Taliban recruit all the local boys to school, which includes military training..
Plot: After the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction of women in public life, a pre-teen girl is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to find work to support her mother and grandmother.
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	7.3/10 Votes: 9,189
	96% | RottenTomatoes
	83/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 88 Popularity: 5.104 | TMDB

Reviews:

Filmmaker Barmak’s “Osama” has its share of suspense drama – much is conveyed in a mere 1 hr. 22 mins.
The film felt like a documentary – it was simple and straightforward. “Osama” captured many aspects of what life is like during Taliban’s occupation, through the eyes of a 12-year old Afghan girl, within 1 hr. 22 mins. – it’s more than most Hollywood movies manage to get across in 2 hrs. For a debut feature, w-d Siddiq Barmak delivered a quietly poignant film – it may not be evident at first impression right after seeing the film with the sadness and injustice it burdensomely carries. As I was re-telling the film’s plot to someone who missed the showing, it came to me how succinctly the film tells/exposes what the women and children, and men, had to tolerate under such atrocious regime. The poverty level and misfortunate situation/predicaments are almost unspeakable.

The portrayal of Osama by Marina Golbahari is impressive: the bewilderment and fear on her face, the rare break into a smile we get to catch, her wailing and cry and crying – mostly delivered in a speechless manner. The other child actor, Arif Herati, who played the one who tried to shield her from trouble by the other boys, gave a brief but convincing Espandi. There’s also Osama’s mother and grandmother, and the neighbors, and the men who were ‘helpless’ in spite of wanting to help – the roles and scenes are all touchingly stirring. There are suspenseful moments and one wonders what would happen next – outcome could be predictable yet its share of drama and humanity lessen not. As a relieving contrast, a coming of age boys lesson in a Turkish bath setting was included – suspense and intrigue a-mixed. Barmak gave us a well-paced film, missing not a chance to provide insight to the cultural aspects of the people.

“Osama” brings to mind other similar ‘hard medicine’ films: Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s `The Circle’ 2000 (aka “Dayareh”), is the empathetic telling of the mistreatment/misfortune of four women in an unsympathetic society; director Michael Winterbottom’s docudrama `In this World’ released through 2003 Sundance Series, gave us an unflinching look into ‘human cargo smuggling’ of an Afghan refugee, 16-year old Jamal, with the persistent slim hope of a better livelihood in Britain; Xavier Koller’s `Journey of Hope,” the 1991 Academy Award’s Best Foreign Film, is a heartbreaking tale of enduring/diminishing hope.

On a different note possibly more hopeful, though family poverty, hardships of Afghan refugees and girl posing as boy to obtain work are still the ingredients, we have “Baran” 2001, another worthwhile filmic experience from Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi (“Children of Heaven” and “Color of Paradise”.)

A Short but powerful film!
Osama is the first movie made after the fall of the Taliban last year. It shows the story of a young girl who is forced to disguise herself as a boy so that she can work and feed her hungry mother and grandmother. Winner a Golden Globe for foreign language film is about 80 minutes long.

I have got to say that this film will really give a massive shock to the viewers with some of the scenes. The severity of some of the actions and policies of the Taliban were really extreme and it sometimes is hard to understand how people could do this to other people.

One of the first scenes you see in the film is that of a rally of women all asking for jobs so that they could feed their families. It is a breathtaking and powerful scene as you see hundreds of women all clad in their blue burkas. This I felt was one of the ways the director was able to portray the harshness of the rule of the Taliban in Afghanistan. You could see the peoples hardship and longing for a better life.

I was rather pleasantly surprised to hear that all of the actors in the film are all locals of Afghanistan and do not have any experience in acting. They all did great jobs in putting across the material especially Marina Golbahari, the lead actress. I guess it was easy translating real life experiences to the scenes in a film.

The director also did quite a laudable job of making a rather bleak atmosphere throughout the film. A lot of the scenes had dark lighting and not a single second of musical score throughout the film added to the overall dark atmosphere of the film. He also did a good job in making the Taliban a menacing force, which you would learn to hate.

A good film overall and it was really effective in putting the message across even if the movie was just 80 minutes long. 80 minutes of powerful filmaking and its simplicity is the main reason that this film is a good one.

Other Information:

Original Language ps
Runtime 1 hr 23 min (83 min)
Budget 46000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Drama
Director Siddiq Barmak
Writer Siddiq Barmak
Actors Marina Golbahari, Zubaida Sahar, Khwaja Nader
Country Afghanistan, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Iran
Awards 16 wins & 14 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex 35 BL4
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 2,272 m (Switzerland)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm