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- 1. Osama
Barmark, S. (Director). (2003). Osama[Motion Picture].
Afghanistan: United Artists
2. Key Talking Points
Access to Health Care
Health care is available, but on a very limited basis.
Taliban members control the health care availability in the
area.
Women Doctors need to hide from the Taliban and if found are
arrested.
The girl, who was living like a boy, began menstruating, but there
was not any mention of how the women handle it.
There was no mention of mental health care.
Education
Education in Afghanistan is not for women.
In this movie education was only for males and it is provided by
the Taliban. They were taught the Koran, how to cleanse themselves
after wet dreams and sexual encounters, and how to fight for the
Taliban.
Males are not given the choice of attending the school or not in
this movie.
There was no optimism for the future for women, they were at the
mercy of the men in their lives, if there were men in their
lives.
Since this movie was made in 2003, there have been significant
increases in the number of youth who have returned to school.
Currently there is over 2.68 million females in school and over 539
schools built (World Bank, 2011).
3. Key Talking Points
Safety
The emotional environment of the youth in the movie was fear due to
the presence of the Taliban.
Girls were more oppressed in the Muslim society.
Food safety did not seem to be of concern in the movie. Meat was
dried and milk was boiled though.
There did not seem to be the same types of risky behaviors for
youth in the movie as there are in the U.S.
Familial Relationships
Boys are more cherished as children because only men can work for
money.
Children do not question their parents demands.
The Grandmother in the movie seemed to be more caring and loving
towards her Granddaughter than the Mother did.
There was more emphasis on interdependent relationships than
individualism. The mother asked a friend of her husbands to help
her family out by hiring her son, as she could not get work
herself.
4. Recommended for Youth Development Professionals?
I do recommend this movie for YDPs to teach about issues that young
Muslim woman must deal with on a day-to-day basis. YDPs will see
why Muslim woman do not stand up for themselves, to the men in
their lives, or why they value their families first and not
themselves.
The use of positive youth development practices could be beneficial
for children in this movie, however, there needs to be systems
changes first. With the strong integration of the Muslim religion
into all aspects of the families lives, it will be very difficult
to implement positive youth development practices.
The families are also concerned with basic survival under rule of
the Taliban and therefore can not move beyond the survival state of
mind.
5. References:Barmark, S. (Director). (2003). Osama[Motion
Picture].Afghanistan: United ArtistsWorld Bank. Maternal and child
health: Countries link financing with results. Retrieved from the
web on May 28, 2011. http://www.worldbank.org