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?
She's not "observing" someone jumping rope in the jail. She's having a memory-vision of herself as a child playing and free, with the jail and other inmates as backdrop. That image recurs in her mind at the end. If you pay attention as the credits roll, the sound of the jump rope stops when she's on her grotesque "wedding night" with the old man, presumably as he rapes her for the first time and takes away her childhood forever. Same as another of his wives warned her would happen.
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