Project Title
In many countries, especially Islamic countries, honor does not stand out as a trait until someone’s daughter, wife, or sister commits a dishonorable act. The acts that cause a person to be stigmatized as dishonorable will vary across cultures, but in all instances to suffer dishonor is to be shamed. Especially shamed women feel shunned, humiliated, and embarrassed.
They may feel the need to go into seclusion to avoid being seen by others. People want more than anything to regain their lost reputations, to re-establish their statuses in the community. It is at these times that the loss of honor in oneself or in others is recognized.
The loss of honor for a parent has both an inner and outer quality. On the inner side, a father for example may (or may not) feel a genuine sense of shame, guilt, or similar feelings after his daughter having breached some moral norm customarily embraced in a given culture. On the outer side, people in the community will form the opinion that she has violated a customary code of behavior, or otherwise has done something dishonorable, has something for which he or she should be
ashamed. Even if the individual still actually judges himself to be free of taint-for perhaps he does not embrace the traditional criteria that define honor-the humiliation imposed on him by the weight of public opinion in his culture may be too great to bear. He may feel compelled to take action to free himself of this taint, a taint that he
may or may not believe is justified.
Gallory
Cast & Crew
- Prod. Date : 26.05.2005
- Genre : Drama
- Category : Feature
- Runtime : 91 Minutes
- Prod. location : Iran