“The last camel in caravan goes as fast as the first”
I always have a list of movies for the future to watch. The list has several categories, depending from where and from whom I learned about this movie, and also it prioritized by source trust. I was advised to watch this movie as a reference to the Lovelace (2013). I was expecting something of a feminist, something about the women rights. But what I actually saw made me feel nauseous and irritated.
We all, in our contemporary world, yell on women’s rights, all kinds of it. But did someone ever had to fight for the right to be a woman? As the our main character had to. All her life she fought for that right. First, with her family, and then with herself.
Briefly about the plot. The movie tells the story about an immigrant from Somalia. When she was only 13 years old, she ran away from her home and ended up in Mogadishu, and then in London. Almost all of the time in London she worked as a cleaner in the Consulate of Somalia. She grew to a beautiful woman there, without any knowledge of it.
At one point she then left the consulate house, without any knowledge of English. From this moment the movie begins. She meets a girl, who will later become a good friend of her. She also will catch an eye of the famous British photographer, who will notice the beauty in her, that she had never seen in herself . Over time, she will be one of the most wanted top models. But she will always be “different”, not like everyone else.
Somalia is still practice female circumcision. I won’t go into the details of the procedure is too it’s painful.
And when Varis (our main character) was three years old she went, so to speak, through this procedure. But the conditions in which all of it takes place just brutal. This is the main idea of the film. And from the fact that it is filmed on real events you just get goose bumps.
The moment in the film when Varis realizes that what she had went through is not normal, and unnecessary, is just heartbreaking. The pain in her eyes is unbearable. Probably at this point she realizes the abnormality of her culture.
Watch a movie if you care, if you want to make a difference in this world. All your problems will suddenly turn into a dust, and you realize that it was not worth to worry about. You will sense a nothingness of existence and and shame of all the complaints about your life. After all, it is not comparable, to what happened to Varis.
But the movie is still inspiring. In spite of anything, Varis was able to remain a good, pure and faithful girl. And most of us are starting to become embittered just because of a few hard weeks, multiple failures, few bad feelings.
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