What a beautiful movie. I just saw it for the second time today and was still moved by it.
One thing that I've always wondered though: what do you believe the significane is of the scene in which Osama is oberving the jump rope at the end of the movie? I kind of see it as a loss of childhood/innocence.
Any thoughts?
yes, when i saw this- i really did think of the same thing.
it's also interesting to note that she's skipping within the confinement of a jail.
she's trying to revive her girlhood and her childhood, but she can never be able to after what has happened to her.
My thought is that she is watching her childhood...and her freedom...from the present, into the past. This innocence is no longer hers. She is literally chained to a future that brings her no hope.
The jump rope is one of the more brilliant aspects of the film, I felt.
i would also like to point out, that when she is picturing herself playing with the jumprope, while she is in jail, its the boy osama that we see playing. the girl osama is in jail. its sadly ironic, boys get to play while the girls are in jail. so sad!
shareTheir whole lives would seem like incarceration. Not being able to leave your home without a male accompanying you and other restrictions placed on women means you're essentially locked up for life. The mullahs wives didn't look like they got out much, his house felt much like a prison.
shareI have just seen the movie and I got to the same conclusion.
I believe the meaning of the jumprope is describing how unfair it is that only boys could play while women are confined.
Note that the same scene/vision happens at the very end of the movie, giving the message that although she is "free", now she´s married to a taliban and in fact being locked at home is the same thing as being in jail.
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I think that the jumping rope was to not to represent anything but a reminder that infact osama is just a child at age 11 she is expierencing things that would kill the life out of a full grown adult
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I felt it was an escape for herself, not merely a reminder for the audience. Here we see she has something, some straw (the jump rope), however small to hold onto and maybe push away from the reality of her situation.
shareit was merely a symbol of her childhood innocence. dont forget that she had been skipping, as a boy, in the store she worked in. it was a way to shut off the rest of the world and be herself, similar to how she buries her locks in that pot of dirt.
"I don't like the party scene. i just wanna sit on my arse and watch movies."--h£
I think it was simply that it was a child who had found a toy to play with and was playing with carefree abandon as children do, the director is saying to us, "this is a child, don't forget that" , ironic that the only time we saw her play in the entire film was in a prison cell, the versatility of children.
It is also possible that her memory of the enjoyment of play helped to sustain her during the ordeal of her wedding night, it was also the image that we were left with to help alleviate the sorrow in our hearts and soul.
That is EXACTLY what it is... The "Osama" jumping rope represents her childhood.
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