Submission: Part I (2004) (TV)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Theo van Gogh

Writers:

Ayaan Hirsi Ali (scenario) and
Theo van Gogh (writer)

Release Date:

29 August 2004 (Netherlands)

Genre:

Short | Drama

Plot:

Short film on the mistreatment of women in the Islam. It shows abused women, with Koran texts on their bodies that validate their mistreatment. |

Plot Keywords:

Mistreatment | Koran | Islam | Human Rights | Women's Rights

Runtime:

12 min

Country:

Netherlands

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Trivia:

The film created so much controversy that director, Theo van Gogh, was shot and killed.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Religulous (2008)

Unacceptable overreaction

While this movie might not be the best movie ever produced about Islam, it is absolutely amazing to find so many "tolerant and moderate" Muslim people so upset about it.

How many movies are there out there which show the negative side of Christianity? How many Nazis-Christians, pedophile-Christians and just-plain-evil-Christians movies are out there? How many movies are out there which show Jesus from a "blasphemous" perspective? We have seen Jesus as a homosexual, a sex fiend, a dope smoking hippie and many other potentially offensive angles. Yet, every time Christian extremists raise hell (ha ha) about it, most of us ask them kindly to chill out and to respect freedom of speech as well as artistic freedom.

How come we do not hold the Muslim community to the same standard? I don't understand why so many people find it OK for so called moderate Muslims to demand that movies like Submission be censored. We would not tolerate it if "moderate" Christians demanded the same about any of the flicks that might portray Christianity from a negative point of view.

If you know anything about Islam and Muslim women in general, if you have actually talked and met with Muslims who practice their faith, you will have to at least agree partially with what is shown in this short film.

Obviously, this doesn't mean that all Muslim men abuse their women or that all non-Muslim men are nice guys. As a matter of fact, I just watched a short documentary on women abuse in Spain, a traditionally Catholic country.