The Patience Stone

Film - 2013

7,0

56.9K

The Patience Stone it's a movie with Golshifteh Farahani, Hamid Djavadan, Hassina Burgan, Massi Mrowat, Mohamed Al Maghraoui Full cast. Directed by Atiq Rahimi. Original title Syngué sabour, pierre de patience, runtime 102 minutes. Genres Drama, War.

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Henri Floyd Lynch

A warrior's coma forces his wife to look after him, but triggers a flow of consciousness in the woman that will lead her to question the strength and meaning of their relationship, irremediably trapped in the precepts of Islam. Against the backdrop of an oppressed Afghan territory from the guerrilla war, in which daily life had to make room for violence, raids, shootings and bombings, a young woman finds herself alone to take care of her husband, a former combatant who is seriously injured and reduced to a vegetative state. While she uses her care on him, her spouse's body, physically and symbolically petrified, takes on vital force, causing her to confess unbearable secrets and to release repressed feelings. Free from the Koranic cage, the woman forcefully pours out her pain on the defenseless man, who for the first time will be forced to listen to her. As a patient stone she does not only speak from the suffering of all Muslim girls, who are denied the right to a peaceful and genuine couple life. If love as a universal feeling nourishes the human empathy that pushes us to unite, the different cultural codes, in this case the prescriptions of faith, act with exclusive logic; by imposing differences, they educate distance and therefore dull compassion. Citizens of the secularized Western world, in the grip of a hangover from moral freedom, could watch the film with reassuring detachment, but it would be illusory. In fact, the experience of the spouses recalls the poverty of certain love relationships that break on the surface of hearts dried up by metropolitan life, which, rather than bringing us closer to each other, hinders communication and therefore mutual understanding. The key element is precisely the incommunicability, symbolized by the protagonist's long monologues, useful for establishing that intimate verbal contact that had always been missing. Here is the double paradox: not only is dialogue delegated to a solipsistic exercise, but it seems to function exclusively in absence Read all

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In a war ridden country a woman watches over the husband reduced to a vegetable state by a bullet in the neck, abandoned by Jihad companions and brothers. One day, the woman decides to say things to him she could never have done before.