The Best Non-Date Movie You’ll See This Year
By Mitch Berg
I saw The Stoning of Soraya M at the Uptown last night.
First things first; it’s a harrowing movie. As in Passion of the Christ harrowing.
Too harrowing, at this remove, to really write a coherent review. That’ll come soon.
But do yourself a favor; ignore the NYTimes’ specious review. The Times writes the movie off as ‘Torture-Porn”. They hit the point and still it completely; the village men doing the stoning were acting as if they were taking part in pornography. That is exactly the point.
It’s at the Uptown again tonight. It’s not the feel-good hit of the summer – I haven’t seen a group walk out of a building looking so emotionally smacked around since the Holocaust Museum.
But it is so good. An amazing movie. Go if you get the chance.
