'Stoning of Soraya'
It became impulsive to write this post after a chain reaction of thoughts that started after watching screening of the movie 'Stoning of Soraya ' at Norris Theatre, USC . After screening, discussion with director of the movie, Cyrus Nowrasteh , with participation of Iranian, American and other international students, I was forced to shed some of my strongly held views about the impact of cinema on society. Mind you, this blog post is not just about the impact of cinema on society. The movie appeared to be (at least to me) demonizing Iran's Islamic Revolution and Sharia Islam law under the cover of being critical of human rights violation codified in the Iran's Sharia law. Stoning to death as a punishment is indeed deplorable and demands discontinuation. But was this the only issue that Cyrus was concerned about? Under the cover of 'being realistic', he creates an effect in bad taste with Allah uh-Akbar being chanted in the background while Soraya is stoned to d...