chitgarmary

French productions typically pick up a group of actors with North African and Arabic descent to portray Eurasiatic/Central Asiatic Afghans. This proves their complete laziness and ignorance about the country and the people they are trying to depict.

Also, how on earth could a Eurasiatic mountainous country like Afghanistan be reproduced in North Africa, tens of thousands of kilometers away is beyond comprehension and logics. Since when are Africa and Asia the same?

Why keep perpetuating this obsolete and ridiculous post colonial orientalist perspective ?

If I were an Afghan i would be disgusted and appalled. Imagine if Hollywood would pick up a group of Romany gypsies to portray ancient Vikings. Or if China makes a movie about ancient Franks and only picks up actors of Pakistani descent to portray french kings. That would be scandalous, right?

Well it's exactly the same with this cast when a Maghrebi African is portraying a Eurasiatic Tadjik or Hazara. Complete nonsense and clownish.

I normally don't like Netflix movies but this one proved me wrong. And the negative reviews are a mystery to me. This film completely blew me away. I literally cried at the end. It was a beautiful story. Glenn Close and Amy Adams are phenomenal in this movie. Especially Glenn Close's portrayal of "Mamaw". I had no idea it was based on a true story until the end of the movie, which made it even more beautiful.

I expect this from Jane Fonda but it's disappointing to see Adam Driver and Jason Bateman play in this joke of a movie. I feel ashamed to say that I have watched this film. One star is too generous.