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I just don't understand where the controversy with this movie/book is coming from. Father makes mother choose "this life" or "life without your child". Seems pretty clear cut to me. Other views? 162.39.180.2 13:49, 25 September 2005 (UTC)Jp
I'd agree, and there are plenty of people who think this film is a fairly accurate representation of what women have to put up with in Iran and other Middle Eastern theocracies. However, there was one user who kept adding partisan commentary to the article, so I added the NPOV tag. ProhibitOnions 15:29, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
Well, I did my best to make the article more objective, say, like taking out some words like "horrific" or something like that. That Betty girl whose last name escapes my mind became one of my heroes when I saw the movie. However, we must also consider that when the tag line says "based on..' it means that some scenes depicted may or may not have happened in real life. That said, I have %200 respect to the woman and the child involved in the case and my hearts are with them for their bravery.
One last word: A scene that deeply shocked me and opened my eyes to what may be going on in some families of the Arab world is when a husband came in and punched his wife just because she was talking to Betty. That really shook me to the core. Its been 14 years since I last saw the movie and I still cant forget that!
Antonio End the violence against Muslim women! Martin 09:07, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
If there exist any propaganda movie in the world, this is the one. The best evidence (for a non Iranian) is that the Islamic regime screened the movie repeatedly in Iran. If the movie had any thing to do with reality or it could somehow induce a feeling against the regime, they would not screen the movie. I myself have seen it inside and outside of Iran a few times. It just induces anti-western feeling in Iranians. You see streets full of mullahs! Teachers who violently separate children from their parents on the first day of school!! A man who is beating his wife in public !!! and violently!! All women look ugly and dressed in black. Everybody is shouting and doing stupid things. The movie was supposed to show one of the most beautiful cities of the country. However it looked like palestine ! You see in the capital of the country, Tehran, that a group of sheep are passing !! Ask people who lived in Tehran for last 50 years!! Nobody have seen such things. In this movie you see very few "good" Iranians. Those "good" are all against regime and anti revolution!! Good peoples have relation with mafia and can help Betty escape the country illegally! Are good and civilized people in Germany and France able to help a person escape their country illegally ??!! Do they have relation with mafias ? There many many more things about the movie. Not without my daughteris not a movie about Iran with some exaggerations or mistakes. It is an awful piece of trash. There are lots of books and movies made by Iranians in exile about Iran or situation of women in Iran. I recommend those. 22:14, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
So many people in the world have been brain washed by the movie. I am not surprised as the whole knowledge of most of them about iran is that "Iran is Iraq in which q is replaced by n". -- Sina Kardar 19:29, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Not without my daughter was a propaganda movie. Not that I agree with what Dr. Mahmoodi did, even if only 10% of the movie was true. No one should be allowed to treat his wife or child the way he did and he had no right to decide for them where to go and how to live their lives, but the movie was not based on truth and made solely for propaganda against Iranians over all and not against action of one person. I did see both interviews with Betty and Dr. Mahmoodi and it did seem like they both were not truthful. Betty did this because she wanted to sell the book and Dr. Mahmoodi was not truthful either, he did make many mistakes on not being up front and straight forward with his wife and specially his child. I do think Sally Field should be ashamed of herself for having the leading role in this movie and being the puppet of some political agenda. Please see discussions here Movie Discussion -- Sina Kardar 19:44, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
It would be nice to see some sourced criticism from the Islamic world about this book here. I know it exists; in Alison Wearing's Honeymoon in Purdah, the author recounts several conversations she had in Iran about this book.
The general trend from Wearing's conversations seemed to be anger at Mahmoody's alleged stubborn ignorance of Iranian/Muslim customs and culture. For example, one woman recounted a bit about how Mahmoody was apparently appalled when her in-laws slaughtered a goat upon her arrival, though they intended this as a gesture of warm welcome to her. -- Saforrest 07:04, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
There had been at least 2 documentaries where it was shown that she lied and that Betty M was an unstable person. Also her former husband said that she attacked him with a chopping knife — Preceding
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In Iran, there are people who are very conservative (as portrayed in the movie) and others who are much more liberal and westernised. However, all Iranians agree this movie is basically a hatchde job and very much biased. You won't find too many Iranians agreeing with this. The article should be changed to reflect this viewpoint - that the movie is not an accurate reflection of Iranian life or culture. -- Commking 03:14, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
The propaganda tag is not justified and is somebody trying to express their opinion about the film. The movie is simply based on the book written by Betty Mahmoody about her own story real life story. Perhaps some folks might feel that the film reflects poorly on the Islamic culture but it is not a propaganda film.-- CltFn 04:00, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Propaganda is nothing but distributing lies. Sina Kardar 19:09, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
I just saw the movie for the first time and something is becoming clear to me: the filmmaker should have put more emphasis on the wife's legal situation. You see, it happens that I have a foreign wife and a foreign daugther, and they both live with me in my home country, in South America. When we lived in their country, anytime I wanted to travel to my country with my daughter I had to show a permit, signed by the mother, at the border. Conversely, now that we live in my country, anytime my wife wants to travel with my daughter she has to show a permit at the border, signed by me. This means that anytime one parent tries to take the child across the border, he or she is asked by the authorities: "Do the other parent agree with this?" regardless of who is leaving which country. Now, of course my wife can leave my country in the middle of the night is she pleases, after all, she is not an underage woman. But my daughter is underage, and she needs the permit of both parents to cross an international border, at least here at South America. As I understand, the situation in Iran is that both the child and the mother are considered "legally underage". But I was left with a taste that the real situation, in this case, was that Moody was willing to let Betty go, but alone. That situation is exactly the same that we can have here in Latin America should one parent oppose to a family travel, althougth in this part of the world Betty's right to leave would have been guaranteed by law, something that in Iran was up to Moody to decide. Aldo L ( talk) 06:18, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
It says in the plot section that Betty was helped by Houssain and his WIFE. That woman was supposed to be his sister, not his wife. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.0.95.132 ( talk) 23:19, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
The intro makes no summary of the Controversy and Criticism section. As such it is not NPOV. Could users interested in this film contribute here please to make the introduction better? -- Why should I have a User Name? ( talk) 09:21, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
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I just don't understand where the controversy with this movie/book is coming from. Father makes mother choose "this life" or "life without your child". Seems pretty clear cut to me. Other views? 162.39.180.2 13:49, 25 September 2005 (UTC)Jp
I'd agree, and there are plenty of people who think this film is a fairly accurate representation of what women have to put up with in Iran and other Middle Eastern theocracies. However, there was one user who kept adding partisan commentary to the article, so I added the NPOV tag. ProhibitOnions 15:29, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
Well, I did my best to make the article more objective, say, like taking out some words like "horrific" or something like that. That Betty girl whose last name escapes my mind became one of my heroes when I saw the movie. However, we must also consider that when the tag line says "based on..' it means that some scenes depicted may or may not have happened in real life. That said, I have %200 respect to the woman and the child involved in the case and my hearts are with them for their bravery.
One last word: A scene that deeply shocked me and opened my eyes to what may be going on in some families of the Arab world is when a husband came in and punched his wife just because she was talking to Betty. That really shook me to the core. Its been 14 years since I last saw the movie and I still cant forget that!
Antonio End the violence against Muslim women! Martin 09:07, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
If there exist any propaganda movie in the world, this is the one. The best evidence (for a non Iranian) is that the Islamic regime screened the movie repeatedly in Iran. If the movie had any thing to do with reality or it could somehow induce a feeling against the regime, they would not screen the movie. I myself have seen it inside and outside of Iran a few times. It just induces anti-western feeling in Iranians. You see streets full of mullahs! Teachers who violently separate children from their parents on the first day of school!! A man who is beating his wife in public !!! and violently!! All women look ugly and dressed in black. Everybody is shouting and doing stupid things. The movie was supposed to show one of the most beautiful cities of the country. However it looked like palestine ! You see in the capital of the country, Tehran, that a group of sheep are passing !! Ask people who lived in Tehran for last 50 years!! Nobody have seen such things. In this movie you see very few "good" Iranians. Those "good" are all against regime and anti revolution!! Good peoples have relation with mafia and can help Betty escape the country illegally! Are good and civilized people in Germany and France able to help a person escape their country illegally ??!! Do they have relation with mafias ? There many many more things about the movie. Not without my daughteris not a movie about Iran with some exaggerations or mistakes. It is an awful piece of trash. There are lots of books and movies made by Iranians in exile about Iran or situation of women in Iran. I recommend those. 22:14, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
So many people in the world have been brain washed by the movie. I am not surprised as the whole knowledge of most of them about iran is that "Iran is Iraq in which q is replaced by n". -- Sina Kardar 19:29, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Not without my daughter was a propaganda movie. Not that I agree with what Dr. Mahmoodi did, even if only 10% of the movie was true. No one should be allowed to treat his wife or child the way he did and he had no right to decide for them where to go and how to live their lives, but the movie was not based on truth and made solely for propaganda against Iranians over all and not against action of one person. I did see both interviews with Betty and Dr. Mahmoodi and it did seem like they both were not truthful. Betty did this because she wanted to sell the book and Dr. Mahmoodi was not truthful either, he did make many mistakes on not being up front and straight forward with his wife and specially his child. I do think Sally Field should be ashamed of herself for having the leading role in this movie and being the puppet of some political agenda. Please see discussions here Movie Discussion -- Sina Kardar 19:44, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
It would be nice to see some sourced criticism from the Islamic world about this book here. I know it exists; in Alison Wearing's Honeymoon in Purdah, the author recounts several conversations she had in Iran about this book.
The general trend from Wearing's conversations seemed to be anger at Mahmoody's alleged stubborn ignorance of Iranian/Muslim customs and culture. For example, one woman recounted a bit about how Mahmoody was apparently appalled when her in-laws slaughtered a goat upon her arrival, though they intended this as a gesture of warm welcome to her. -- Saforrest 07:04, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
There had been at least 2 documentaries where it was shown that she lied and that Betty M was an unstable person. Also her former husband said that she attacked him with a chopping knife — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
2.247.244.100 (
talk)
18:14, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
In Iran, there are people who are very conservative (as portrayed in the movie) and others who are much more liberal and westernised. However, all Iranians agree this movie is basically a hatchde job and very much biased. You won't find too many Iranians agreeing with this. The article should be changed to reflect this viewpoint - that the movie is not an accurate reflection of Iranian life or culture. -- Commking 03:14, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
The propaganda tag is not justified and is somebody trying to express their opinion about the film. The movie is simply based on the book written by Betty Mahmoody about her own story real life story. Perhaps some folks might feel that the film reflects poorly on the Islamic culture but it is not a propaganda film.-- CltFn 04:00, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Propaganda is nothing but distributing lies. Sina Kardar 19:09, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
I just saw the movie for the first time and something is becoming clear to me: the filmmaker should have put more emphasis on the wife's legal situation. You see, it happens that I have a foreign wife and a foreign daugther, and they both live with me in my home country, in South America. When we lived in their country, anytime I wanted to travel to my country with my daughter I had to show a permit, signed by the mother, at the border. Conversely, now that we live in my country, anytime my wife wants to travel with my daughter she has to show a permit at the border, signed by me. This means that anytime one parent tries to take the child across the border, he or she is asked by the authorities: "Do the other parent agree with this?" regardless of who is leaving which country. Now, of course my wife can leave my country in the middle of the night is she pleases, after all, she is not an underage woman. But my daughter is underage, and she needs the permit of both parents to cross an international border, at least here at South America. As I understand, the situation in Iran is that both the child and the mother are considered "legally underage". But I was left with a taste that the real situation, in this case, was that Moody was willing to let Betty go, but alone. That situation is exactly the same that we can have here in Latin America should one parent oppose to a family travel, althougth in this part of the world Betty's right to leave would have been guaranteed by law, something that in Iran was up to Moody to decide. Aldo L ( talk) 06:18, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
It says in the plot section that Betty was helped by Houssain and his WIFE. That woman was supposed to be his sister, not his wife. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.0.95.132 ( talk) 23:19, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
The intro makes no summary of the Controversy and Criticism section. As such it is not NPOV. Could users interested in this film contribute here please to make the introduction better? -- Why should I have a User Name? ( talk) 09:21, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
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