meenaal-600-474953 One of the best film that you will never forget till you die.Just two lines:1) You have to be strong enough to watch the movie, 100% you will end up crying. 2) The reality will kill you at the end. (As it is mentioned it still continues in few places around the world) Usually reality will affect your emotion(s) and definitely you will be disturbed.But this movie/reality will create a great impact and you will feel that you are having a good life compare to Soraya M. Being a girl, I was extremely sad for Soraya M and also at the same time I feel more blessed.Actress Mozhan Marnò portrayed Soraya M at her best.The conversation that happen's in Zahra's house were stunning and I was literally shocked. I salute the director who brought this issue to the world's attention. I hope you will also agree with my point.I won't say enjoy the movie, rather I would say feel the reality.Thanks, Meena.

SnoopyStyle In 1986, Sahebjam is Parisian journalist who is driving to the border. His car breaks down in a remote desolate village Kupayeh, Iran. He is approached by Zahra (Shohreh Aghdashloo) who tells him about the tyrannical treatment of her niece Soraya by the men in power. The Mullah is a former criminal. His former jailer Ali blackmails him to force Ali's wife Soraya accept being discarded while Ali gets a new wife. Meanwhile Soraya will become the Mullah's temporary wife or a holy whore. Zahra stops the Allah as Soraya reveals that Ali beats her. Ali has made a deal with a rich doctor about to be executed to save his life and marry his 14 year old daughter.This is one depressing, horrific drama. It's like the light of humanity can't penetrate this movie. It's a movie where I want to scream at the screen. The movie is hard to watch which culminates in one of the toughest scenes around. The stoning is scarier than any horror movie. It is shocking and incredibly hard to take. However it's worthwhile to see because simply reading about it doesn't deliver the true brutality.

kiran-sh Once again Iran movies have made me feel that they are the best in the world. I have seen lot of Painful movies like this one but only this one got tears in my eyes. The performance is outstanding how you will react when you know that you will dying in one hour.In a simple word i can say that they have showed what happens in today's world a death of innocence.Yes if you liked Passion of Christ then you will like this more then that.Must watch

sddavis63 This is, almost from the start, a painful movie, which by the end becomes an absolutely brutal movie and is almost all the way through a very frightening movie. Set during immediate post-revolutionary Iran, religious fervour (which has little to do with religion and almost everything to do with fervour) is running rampant. In the midst of that maelstrom, an already abusive husband decides that he wants to divorce his wife so that he can take up with another woman. But then he realizes that he'll have to support her, and so he concocts a story accusing her of adultery - the penalty for which is stoning. We watch as the husband engineers rumours and innuendo against his wife; we watch as the whispers become shouts and as suspicion becomes rage; we watch as almost an entire village turns against a woman that they all seem to know is innocent but whom they nevertheless choose to condemn, almost as if this warped action will prove their worthiness to God.It's a brilliant performance from Mozhan Marno as the accused and condemned Soraya. She knows that she's done nothing wrong; she has an almost naive conviction that eventually people will realize that. And yet it's clear that from the beginning this cannot be stopped. The momentum is too great; there's no way to put an end to it even if there was a desire to.In the end this becomes very graphic and bloody. It does, indeed, offer a brutal depiction of a stoning, and it pulls no punches as we watch a bloodied Soraya slowly die under the barrage of rocks thrown at her. As a viewer, you're left with a queasy stomach in stunned silence. In a way, although obviously the movies are very different, this reminded me just a little bit of "The Passion Of The Christ" - the bloodiness and inevitability of the end. Those who are remotely uneasy about bloodiness in a movie will want to avoid the last half hour of this. It is not for the feint of heart.The story is true - based on a book by a French-Iranian reporter played by James Caviezel. As the movie opens, he shows up in town on the day after the stoning needing his car repaired. The story is related to him and unfolds for us through the witness of Soraya's aunt (Shohreh Aghdashloo). As the movie ends, the reporter has to desperately escape the town as he's chased by a mob wanting to prevent him from smuggling the story to the outside world. This movie achieves a delicate balancing act. It shows the dangers of religious extremism, but doesn't come across as anti-Islam. Indeed, Islam is portrayed fairly here, Soraya herself and her aunt being faithful Muslims, who point out to the men their betrayal of Islam in what they're doing. It would have been easy to turn this into an anti- Muslim diatribe. It managed not to turn into that, becoming a critique, perhaps, of culture, and of the ability for less than honourable people to use religion for their own unworthy ends. (8/10)