The woman was kidnapped, beaten and barely managed to run away, only to find out her life story is "too xenophobic" for hollywood.
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I think I've seen this movie, Sally Field has the lead role iirc
It actually wasn't about her country. She was American iirc. She married a man from Iran. They lived in America, but her begged her to finally come visit his family in Iran. She really didn't want to go due to the Iranian hostage crisis, but finally agreed
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Pretty sure we talked about this movie before, but when she got there her husband and the family insisted she had to wear the clothing and be respectful of the laws, which she did.
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But then when they were supposed to come back to America, someone (idr if it was the husband or not) convinced her she needed to give them their passports, which she did.
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The passport was never returned, and when she started to become distressed and insistent on leaving, her husband beat her and pretty much told her they wouldn't be leaving.
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Because she's a woman no one cared, intervened, or was willing to help, & the rest of the movie centres around her trying to find a way to get to the American embassy without leaving her daughter behind
Additional info, this is a snippet of how the daughter described witnessing her father's abuse when she was 4/5:
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"my dad came in and said that's it. We weren't leaving. We were in Iran until we died. And we were in his country. We had to abide by his rules. And from then on, he was a completely different person. To me, that's when my daddy died. You know, he was, from that moment on, completely changed.
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..it was worse for me to see my dad beating my mom than for him to hit me, and he did that too. I mean - but I would rather he hit me or he throw me across the room than to see him hit her."
This is a true story, and also a true depiction of what actually happened to many people. My Iranian friend escaped with her family to Pakistan on exactly the same route. When she watched the movie she was very impressed with the accuracy.
I'm honestly kind of surprised she didn't change her and her daughter's last name. If someone I married beat me in front of my kid and imprisoned us both in a foreign country for over a year, there's no way I'd be keeping any trace of them in the family
I know a woman who kept the last name of a very... unsavory ex because he might have been awful, but it’s the only last name she got by choice. So I can’t say to this woman’s (the one on whom the movie is based) specific motivation, but that does ring true.
I don't really understand that logic. No disrespect to your friend either, just doesn't make sense to me. No one is born with a last name they choose, but at any time you can go to city hall or wherever and have your last name changed
I understand her reasoning, I just don’t agree with it in her case (srsly, given why they got divorced, I wouldn’t want to share a planet with dude, much less a name). Plus, if an HR department is lazy or doesn’t read file notes, a name change screws with your resumé - and one of the things I do not do is trust random strangers not to be lazy.
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(TITLE FROM REDDIT r/HistoryMemes)
I think I've seen this movie, Sally Field has the lead role iirc
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Pretty sure we talked about this movie before, but when she got there her husband and the family insisted she had to wear the clothing and be respectful of the laws, which she did.
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But then when they were supposed to come back to America, someone (idr if it was the husband or not) convinced her she needed to give them their passports, which she did.
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The passport was never returned, and when she started to become distressed and insistent on leaving, her husband beat her and pretty much told her they wouldn't be leaving.
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Because she's a woman no one cared, intervened, or was willing to help, & the rest of the movie centres around her trying to find a way to get to the American embassy without leaving her daughter behind
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"my dad came in and said that's it. We weren't leaving. We were in Iran until we died. And we were in his country. We had to abide by his rules. And from then on, he was a completely different person. To me, that's when my daddy died. You know, he was, from that moment on, completely changed.
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..it was worse for me to see my dad beating my mom than for him to hit me, and he did that too. I mean - but I would rather he hit me or he throw me across the room than to see him hit her."