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Posted in Kids, Mountains, pictures, Travel with tags Afghanistan, burqa, fundamentalism, gender apartheid, Human Rights, obscurantism, taliban, women's rights, Women’s Rights and Gender Equality on May 9, 2022 by xi'ana fast closing of perspectives
Posted in Statistics with tags Afghanistan, burqa, fundamentalism, taliban on August 15, 2021 by xi'anunorthodox
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Travel with tags Berlin, Brooklyn, fundamentalism, Germany, Hasidic Judaism, Netflix, New York city, religious cult, TV series, ultra-orthodox, Williamsburg on May 17, 2020 by xi'anAnother series I watched during quarantine is the short and powerful Unorthodox, by Anna Winger, featuring the fantastic actress Shira Haas as Etsy, fleeing her unhappy marriage and the stifling rules set by her Hasidic community in Williamsburg, New York, to seek refuge in Berlin, although ambivalent to get help from her distanced mother once there. I found the story quite moving and intense in the slow unfolding of Etsy’s progressive unraveling of her un-orthodoxy and of her desperate escape into a world she knows nothing about. While her difficulties in apprehending this new universe are well rendered, I however find the part of the story when she joins a friendly group of music students somewhat too lazy a plot, although her fight there for achieving autonomy by herself only is remarkably transcribed. I am equally quite impressed by the show immersion into the Hasidic community, which is putting a considerable effort in replacing their tradition into an historical perspective and exposing the outworldly separation between men and women, who are essentially reduced to becoming mothers. The main strength of Unorthodox is that it keeps away from manichaeism, with people stuck into a frozen tradition and not seeing the oppression it induces. As most often with fundamentalism.