Dispatches: The Inspiration That is Malala Caught on Film

Meeting with world leaders and speaking to the United Nations General Assembly, hers is a voice that will not be silenced soon. I mean, first of all, my experience was walking into their home that this is a really fun, joyful place and I didn’t realize that their family was just like my family. How this father and this girl did something so extraordinary? That is more than enough for me in a movie. “I made a very personal movie”, said Guggenheim.

In He Named Me Malala, Guggenheim, an Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker (An Inconvenient Truth), followed the then 15-year-old and her family on the road as she campaigned for girls’ education. Today, she is the co-founder of The Malala Fund, which seeks to advocate and provide education to more than 60 million girls globally who are denied an education due to poverty, violence or tradition.

The story of Malala Yousafzai has been widely reported, but it’s so intense and compelling that it bears repeating.

Likewise, the film never fully clarifies the relationship between the girl and her father.

Although, there is a difference between overlooking what and exploring the influence of who’s clearly the most crucial figure in her life she did with that. After being flown into Birmingham, England to receive medical treatment, she had to relearn, among several basic skills, how to walk and talk. The film also has footage of Pakistanis who outright charge her father with manipulating Malala into near martyrdom.

“I left school because I was the only girl in a class full of boys”. She rallied the Afghan troops to defeat the British. The Taliban have vowed to kill her if they return, and the film reveals a sort of backlash against Malala in her homeland, where a few Pakistanis have accused her of either abandoning traditional beliefs or abandoning her people in favor of Western fame. But Malala thinks otherwise. The shot went through her head, neck and shoulder.

Last week he told the Women in the World conference in London that men who do not believe in equality and freedom for women are guilty of “real cowardice”. She replies “I am still an ordinary girl”.

There aren’t any of the usual red flags to consider when deciding if “He Named Me Malala” is right for kids, but you should definitely be aware of the heavy themes and slower-than-usual storytelling.

Her answer points to gender inequality and lack of opportunities for women in developing countries. “You know she met President Obama and asked him about drone strikes”, said Guggenheim. At 17, she became the youngest Nobel laureate ever. However, the most memorable moments in the film are toward the end, when Malala finally discusses her attack.

Although the politics are very important, don’t dismiss this as just a tale with an agenda. When she stands up and speaks to crowds, it’s moving and motivating. Four hundred schools were torched – three in one night, including her father’s, in their own town. Malala says that she and her dad have two different bodies but they share one soul. Her friends Shazia Ramzan and Kainat Riaz also were wounded in the attack.

“In many ways, the director sees this as the key to understanding her as well as others that seem by mediaplayer” larger than life. “And even though my daughters” school is safe, I worry about them. He didn’t make me Malalai. “I was feeling for both sides”.