Desert Flower

There is a scene in this movie that really bothered me. It's been a week and it's still haunting me, so sad.

This is the second time watching this filme after the accident happened with the dvd and since I've got the bluray now by having the refund, I watched it again. But same ting happend but I've found the solution now.If I watch this movie with a headphone the dialogue only comes from the left If the sound is 5.1 DTS HD MASTER. But if it's 2.0 DTS HD MASTER, But if watching with the surround sound home theater that thing doesn't appears.Anyway, this is one of the most touching movie I'v ever seen and I think all the women and even men, to be said, all the human being should watch this film no matter what it takes.It is not only touching but so much fun to see as well and I personally think that this film is way better then my all time favourite <DEVIL WEARS PRADA>. That is huge thing to say since <DEVIL,..> was kind of really my all time favourite and whenever I feel not good, I watched that film.This movie really needs a proper release someday and needs a proper audience to be exexposed.The movie is about the woman who came from Somalia. a really poor country and she just wanted to live in the Uk and she couldn't go back to her place since she couldn't get married to this silly man that she doesn't even know and she got this thing going on too which is,..When she was about 3, she got forced to get rid of her clithoris from her mother which is a tradition from her tribe for years.That memory was so powerful that it remained all her life. She thought that it impure feeling the pleasure of sex at all as a woman. That's why they took away that thing.It was the time when she finally sees a woman who she meets in the UK having sex with a guy and enjoys sex that she finally realized that woman should have right to feel that thing.Then she got a job at this cheap hanburger fast food chain where she meets this really famous photographer. He asks her to be a model which changes her whole life.She becomes a superstar although there are things happened since her Visa was expired and she couldn't go back, she had to marry a guy which is a fake and that puppy eyed guy turned out to be a beast.She ended up with overcome them all.Now she is a shinning star a big one in NY.But she still remains as the woman's best friend too who made her stays in her room.Then one day a popular magazine wanted her to have an interview and she suddenly tells her the story of her own. That changed her to another era.The wholeUN becomes crazy about her story and they begin to realize how crazy and brurtal it is that is happening in Africa and few other countries still.She gave up modelling and becomes an embessader and still doing that job.If you watch this film several things will linger for days.1. Women should be protected.2. Woman should be protected.3. Woman should be protected.

This movie opened my eyes to FGM. I had heard of it before, and some of the countries where this was practiced, however, I actually thought this was over. To my surprise, this movie let me know that the practice of female genital mutilation is still done to this day! I'm so glad the main character is fighting to end this practice worldwide.

I have read all of the Waris Dirie books. Her first, Desert Flower, had me enthralled, emotional and amazed that young girls are mutilated in this tragic manner, then and now. Waris is a strong willed young girl who refuses to enter into an arranged marriage with a man 40-50 years older than her and so runs away from her nomad family in the dark of night across the harsh desserts of the Sudan. She finally makes it to her Grandmother's home in Mogadishu who then sends her to work in the Sudanese London Embassy as a house maid. The Revolution happens and the Embassy closes leaving Waris with nobody to care for her, no grasp of the English language and no money but still with her cherished passport. She befriends a shop assistant who reluctantly offers her a place to stay, temporarily ! They become best friends and as her true internal and external beauty becomes evident she is discovered by a fashion photographer and despite several hurdles, fame, fortune and recognition are hers. Waris now uses that recognition to make the world aware of the mutilation that still occurs today, all over the world, in the name of religion and to keep girls and women objects that men own. The movie is a close adaptation of the book, and as I watched the same emotions washed over me and tears rolled down my face. I thoroughly recommend you read the book, watch the movie and then read the other two books that follow Desert Flower. We should all do whatever we can to support the abolition of the barbaric practice of female genital mutilation.

This is one of my favorite films of all time.

Liya Kebede is refreshingly good in the title role of this film. There could've been more scenes of Waris Dirie's childhood in Somalia, which makes for a bit of confusion in the beginning. But this heartwarming movie is based on the inspiring book: "Desert Flower", by author/activist, Waris Dirie, an account of her fairy tale rise to fame from desert nomad to international top model. Particularly gripping is the circumcision scene of five-year old Waris played by three year old Safa Idriss Nour, whose real life parents intended to use the fee from the film to have the same operation performed on their little girl. Waris Dirie intervened by setting up support for the family and an education for the little girl (now nine years old) through The Desert Flower Foundation. A foundation she created, to stop the cruel practice of female genital mutilation (FGM).

I ordered this film as I had recently seen it on tv, found it to be excellent in its depiction of the most extreme form of violence against females, and as children. A film I wanted to utilize in an Anger Management Group I have been facilitating in any number of venus - from an all male setting, to juveniles, to co-ed groups in the context of outpatient clinics in a number of communities besieged with addiction as well as mental health issues. In my current group, I am working with court-referred men, some of whom have managed to have their attorneys convince judges that his or her client need not be remanded to a 38 week domestic violence group, but would be fine with an Anger Management Group.....