A Most Depressing Movie

Recently went to see the film Osama. I won't bother to give an outline of the story here as it can be found on the site, Im just going to put down my impressions/interpretations of the film.
It turned out to be the most depressing movie i have seen - at least to my recollection. Though im saying its a good movie in terms of art/cinematography etc, the story and potrayal of events left a very saddening impression. The movie's potrayal of despair and helplessness was very overwhelming. It was like nothing could be done, whatever path the main character took she would end up with some horrible fate.
One particular point where she is discovered to be a girl and all the other children (boys) turn on her to help arrest her showed that the innocence of the childhood in these boys had been replaced by so much hatred - its like the hatred for her as a girl overcame their thoughts of her as a child and one of them in that sense. If these children could be so cruel then one can imagine the extent of thegrown men. Through-out the movie where the girl is in desparation she imagines/or is seen skipping rope something I guess she longed to do had all the cares had been removed from her. Another point that struck me was there didn't seem to be much options available to the women - though at some points in the movie I was longing for her to kill the man and run away, it just wasn't practical for her to do that because all the other wives would come into the situation that forced her to diguise herself in the first place. Another part which disgusted me were the potrayal of atrocious acts commited in the name of God. It seemed like a justification.
Though I know of events potrayed in the film being based on past/present reality it was still very disturbing. Those who are ignorant of these realities would probably be extreamly shocked. I have read critics who say that maybe it is propagandaish or using the film to twist the minds of people towards something, that is one opinion but mine is that it will serve as a good eye opener to some people.

Girls eat salad!!??

We had an excercise in class today where a group of guys were asked the question "If you woke up tomorrow morning and found out you were a girl what changes would you have in you behaviour?". The girls were asked the opposite, while another group of guys was told to become forty two year olds.
Of course the guys that became girls saw some obvious things like change of dressing and things you would do in your free time or with your friends but the most outlandish one was we would eat salad!! - now where did that come from? Other changes that were argued were the type of music listened to (which some people said were more subjective than a genealization) - again the guys made a funny generalization in saying that we listened to boy-bands - unfortunately for them the two boy-bands they quoted none of the girls knew about!!
The bunch who were 42 year olds made the next set of bloopers - saying that the religion would be different because those who are free thinkers would probabaly adopt a religion because they were closer to death; females of that age wouldn't wear high heels because it is "dangerous" (causing the lecturer to examine her shoes); capping it all off by saying that they would probaly be living in an old age home - at which point the lecturer asks where they are refering to forty-two or 82 year olds!
One thing we realized were that although these stereotypes were made funny in class they have serious implications because we would tend to carry them along when dealing with others thus causing potential conflict situations.