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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Osama (Persian: أسامة) is a 2003 film made in Afghanistan by Siddiq Barmak. It is about a young girl in Afghanistan under the Taliban who disguises herself as a boy, Osama, in order to support her family. It was the first film to be shot entirely in Afghanistan since 1996, when the Taliban regime banned the creation of all films. The film was an international co-production between companies in Afghanistan, The Netherlands, Japan, Ireland, and Iran.To put it in troper vernacular, Osama is a real Tear Jerker that shows the effect the Taliban rule had on women, and how the absurd Double Standard often created impossible situations for them. Circumstances have left Osama's family without any male relatives to support them. When the Taliban close the hospital where they work, and enforce draconian restriction against women working or moving about freely, their choices are literally to endanger their daughter and break the law, or starve.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Not to be confused with Osama bin Ladennote Especially because it's a common enough name in the Middle East, no more then a westerner named George to be confused with George Washington. Although the use of his name is probably not an accident, the film makes no other reference to him.
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Crapsack World
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Crapsack World: Life under the Taliban sucks and there's NO WAY OUT.
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Downer Ending
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Downer Ending: Osama is discovered to be a girl and forced into a marriage with an older man.
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Big Brother Mentor: Espandi gives Osama shit about being effeminate, but uses his popularity with the other boys to support her secret identity, teaches her masculine mannerisms, gives her the authoritative nickname, and cries for her at the end.
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Fate Worse than Death: Osama's eventual fate.
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Double Standard: The general treatment of women by the Taliban.
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