Wednesday, February 7, 2007

The Search for the Afghan Girl

This movie was about a man who took a photo of a young girl who made an impact on the world with just the look in her eyes. Those green eyes tell a story of pain and suffering, how Afghanistan is suffering. This photographer goes back to Afghanistan after 17 years to try and find her, without knowing if she is alive. He is able to go back to the school where he first met her, and is led to several leads of her whereabouts. In the attempt to find her, he goes around Afghanistan showing a picture of her, and a little boy says he recognizes it and that she's his mother. Struck by excitement and anxiety he goes to meet her but because her husband is not home he has to wait until the next day to meet her if the husband allows it. It's in their custom for the husband to keep their wives from seeing any man especially one who is not a relative without their presence. It turns out that it is not her. Thanks to forensic science, they are able to study and differenciate the eye of the woman they found and eye of the picture. The eye is more accurate than a fingerprint. At the end he is able to find her through a man who said she was his sister. They had the same green eyes. She is still alive, with a husband and children. But she had gone through so much since the last time they met. Her daughter had died.
After so many years, the Afghan girl still remembers him from that day in school. He hadnt changed much, she said. To him she hadnt changed much either. Her eyes still tell that painful story of pain and suffering.

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