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Clips from The Breadwinner

"Beautiful items for sale!"
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"Anything written! Anything read! Pashto and Dari!"
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"Beautiful items for sale!"
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"Anything written. Anything read."
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"Pashto and Dari. Beautiful items for sale."
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"I saw you serve a woman! I saw you with my own eyes!"
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"- Uh, I really don't think... - You were!"
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"Anything written. Anything read."
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"Pashto and Dari. Beautiful items for sale."
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"Parvana."
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"It's the only thing of value we have left."
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"I never wore it. Not even once."
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"Where would you wear it, Parvana?"
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"- Let's continue your studies. All right? - Yes, Baba."
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"Now, what can you tell me about the Silk Road?"
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"The Silk Road."
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"Baba, I can't remember about the Silk Road."
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"Maybe if we think of it like a story."
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"Stories remain in our hearts even when all else is gone."
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"Our people have always told stories, from our very beginning,"
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"when we were Parthia and Khorasan."
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"A fractured land in the claws of the Hindu Kush mountains,"
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"scorched by the fiery eyes of the Northern Deserts,"
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"black rubble earth against ice peaks."
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"Our land was the petrified skeleton of a monster."
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"We were Ariana,"
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"the land of the noble and honorable."
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"We were a pathway to everywhere,"
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"carrying goods from east to west."
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"We studied the stars"
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"and began to see order amidst the chaos."
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"We were scientists, philosophers, and storytellers."
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"Questions sought answers and then more questions."
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"We began to see our place in the universe."
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"But we were at the edges of empires at war with each other,"
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"as borders were defined and redefined..."
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"over thousands of years."
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"Of these mighty rulers came Cyrus the Great of Persia."
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"Then Alexander the Great of Macedon."
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"There came the Mauryan Empire,"
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"Genghis Khan,"
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"and so on and so on."
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"Each time there was bloodshed,"
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"and each time there were survivors."
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"A pattern repeating itself endlessly."
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"When I was young, Parvana,"
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"I knew what peace felt like, here in this city."
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"Children went to school, women went to university."
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"All the empires forgot about us,"
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"for a while at least."
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"But it did not last."
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"The ground became weak under our feet,"
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"always uncertain."
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"First came a coup d'état, then an invasion,"
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"then a civil war."
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"In the chaos,"
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"some looked to those who might restore order."
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"But at a great cost."
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"We have determined specific dignity for women!"
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"Women should not go outside and attract unnecessary attention!"
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"If a woman shows herself, she will be cursed by the Islamic Sharia"
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"and should never expect to go to heaven."
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"Everything changes, Parvana."
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"Stories remind us of that."
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"Parvana, were you listening at all?"
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"Yes, Baba."
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"Why don't you tell me about our nomadic ancestors"
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"and their hills of gold?"
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"Well?"
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"2,000 years ago..."
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"- Yes? - 2,000 years ago..."
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"there was a Bactrian princess"
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"who had a crown."
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"And?"
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"- And... - Parvana?"
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"Away. Keep away from my things."
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"Go away. I said go away, you silly dog!"
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"Hey, you! What do you think you're doing?"
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"Why is this girl shouting?"
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"She is only a child. She meant nothing by it."
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"She's drawing attention to herself!"
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"She should be at home, not displaying herself in the market."
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"I have no son at home, except an infant. I need my daughter to help me."
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"- Stand up when we talk to you. - I am a cr..."
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"I said stand up!"
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"- I know you. - Yes, Idrees."
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"I was your teacher once. You were a good student."
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"You wasted my time, teaching me things of no worth."
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"I have joined the Taliban and now I fight the enemies of Islam."
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"Well, if I am an enemy, then for my sins God has taken my leg."
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"Are you making fun of me, old man?"
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"I lost my leg in the war. The war we fought together."
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"- How old is the girl? - Idrees."
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"- She is a child. - She's old enough to marry."
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"I'll be looking for a wife soon."
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"She's already been promised to someone."
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"Well, she should cover herself properly."
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"- Maybe you should stop looking at her. - What did you say to me?"
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"I said stop looking at her."
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"- I can have you killed! - Idrees."
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"- You watch what you say! - That's enough. Come on."
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"Are you all right?"
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"Yes, Baba."
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"That's my girl."
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"Let's go home now."
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"Parvana?"
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"You told that boy I was promised to someone."
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"Am I getting married?"
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"Of course not. You are still a child."
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"I want you playing and telling stories."
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"I'm too old for that now."
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"Too old for stories? You've always loved stories."
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"What's the use?"
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"I'll have a word with Mama-jan and we'll sort it all out."
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"Please don't mention the dress."
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"Then I'll never hear the end of it."
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"- The end of what? - Nothing, Mama-jan."
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"We're not selling Parvana's good dress."
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"Baba, that's not what I meant."
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"We need the money, Baba."
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