No matter how you wrap it, no matter how enchanting the imagery, an animation about life under the Taliban is not something you 'enjoy' watching. This works like a Khaled Hosseini novel: nothing positive ever happens, and characters spiral down into the bowels of the hell on Earth called Afghanistan. I'm curious why Twomey, the director/co-creator of wondrous animated Irish tales such as The Secret of Kells and Song of the Sea (sad tales, nonetheless), became interested in a Middle-East country to picture tyranny, grief and death in a child's world. Hardly a method to increase awareness.
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