October 5th, 2007 -- Written by John Campea
Movies are a fantasy world. Even when dealing with true stories or modern subject matter, there is a separation between the movies and reality. But sometimes, the line between movies and reality get erased and some drastic measures are needed. For example, the new film titled “The Kite Runner“. The 12 year old stars of the movie have to be evacuated out of Afghanistan before the movie opens. Yahoo News gives us this:
The U.S. release of the film, based on the best-selling novel by Khaled Hosseini, has been delayed by six weeks to December 14 to ensure the 12-year-old Afghan boys are out of harm’s way by then, an executive for Paramount Vantage said on Thursday. The extraordinary precautions follow months of shuttle diplomacy and other preparations by the film studio to address concerns about the film’s depiction of one boy’s rape and other scenes of conflict between rival Pashtun and Hazara tribes. Worries about the well-being of the young actors have escalated as the level of security in Afghanistan has deteriorated in the months since the film was cast and shot.
Yikes! It’s sad that we live in a world where what one does on a movie or television screen can put you in actual peril in real life. But such is the world we live in I suppose. Hey George W… hows that whole “We’re brining freedom and stability to the people of Afghanistan” thing working out?
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It is actually working out great, much better than Pakistan right now, much less Burma. I guess it must have been better for the Afghans when they were being shot in the soccer statements, or do you regret that we freed them from the Taliban. Stick to the movies, since you don’t seem to know the first thing about the actual situation in Afghanistan. I would suggest you read the actual milblogs from in country. No Muslim country is a paradise for moderate muslims. The radicals set them back each and every time. But as a people, they are worth fighting to free.
I wish liberals were still for freedom and liberty.
stadiums. Sheesh. Man, that mellows my harsh.
I don’t know where “Stormy” gets his information, but things in Afghanistan are a horrible mess, and much more unstable that under the Taliban.
The problem most conservative puppets have, is that they fail to realize that some “solutions” are worse than the current problems. The Taliban was evil, however, the US approach to removing them has created an unstable scenario in the region that has made it much worse to live in.
And what a typical conservative ignorant thing to say “I wish liberals were still for freedom and liberty”. We are for freedom and liberty, the difference is that we’re smart enough to know that dropping bombs, destroying stabilizing infrastructures without a proper vacuum fillers, creating massive disorder brinking on internal civil war is NOT the same as freedom and liberty.