Motherland Afghanistan

Although I missed the first half of the movie, what I saw of it was captivating. The part that surprised me most was the way the mothers reacted when they lost their children. Some of the mothers lost their babies due to pre-maturity or lack of proper tools when they were born. To me, this would be one of the worst experiences a woman could go through, and in the film, the mothers seemed unfazed and almost numb to the horrible losses they incurred. 

I enjoyed watching the doctor be such a role model and inspiration to the other people working in the hospital, as well as the patients and local orphans/children. It was hard to see so many people upset throughout the movie, such as the woman who had a hole in her liver. This situation was very hard to understand, and came as a shock that she had trusted some unqualified man to give her "medicine" to relieve her pain, which in the end caused a large internal cyst.  

Today we will be watching another film called Paradise Now, and I will talk about how that movie is on my next blog!