The theatre was small. The film was black and white. It was spring, and so far there had been only 1 Vietnam. Now the cities are under attack from Fundamentalists comfortable in the countryside of poverty, ignorance and want comfortable with terror.
Women wear the veil in the wake of their success.
I remember the Ben Bella character saying Give us your bombers and we will give you our women s baskets. I remember the guns hidden under the chadors. How confusing everything was in the soft air of twilight. The Veil is the handmaid of violence. The oppressed use it when they have no other weapon.