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Went to see "The Stoning of Soraya M" last night. I usually have no problem with all the gore and violence, but my stomach was upset for awhile after this one, as it's about the stoning death of a woman falsely accused of adultery.

On the one hand, the film’s timing is great, given the backdrop of the bloody crackdown by Iran’s mullahs against its “election” dissenters. On the other, this is the sort of film that in a just world, Hollywood should have been made immediately after 9/11, if not about Iran’s brutal theocratic regime, then in 2002 about the victims of the Taliban in Afghanistan, or in 2003 about the victims of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

Naturally, since the silence from establishment Hollywood on topics like this has been deafening, “How dare a filmmaker shed any light on an atrocity committed in an Islamic country?” You can make the U.S. military the bad guy, or a redneck, or a Bible thumper, but you simply do not cast blame on people of Muslim faith. Even if it’s all based on a true story.

If you want to understand the type of people who run Iran, see this film. If you want to understand why men and women risk their lives to demonstrate against the fascist theocracy that rules Iran, see this film. The film is about the type of people who become “supreme leader” (Ali Khamanei) or president of Iran (Mahmoud Ahmadinejad). It is about their thuggery, their use of religion to commit barbarity, and, of course, their despicable treatment of women.

Enough of that.....the uplifting part is I saw a trailer for the "The Hurt Locker" which looked really good.....Set in Baghdad in 2004, The Hurt Locker focuses on Bravo company, an army unit whose job is primarily to disarm or detonate explosive devices left by insurgents.