This portrait of the teenager shot by the Taliban and her extraordinary family – underlines how remarkable she isThe title of An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim’s uplifting account of Malala Yousafzai’s heroic battle for female education and empowerment offers a strange twist on that of her inspirational memoir,I Am Malala. Prophetically linked to Pashtun folk heroine Malalai of Maiwand, who died while urging her comrades to fight the British in Afghanistan, or Malala was named by her activist father,Ziauddin Yousafzai, who anguishes approximately whether he was somehow responsible for his daughter being shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012. Yet the stunningly articulate teenager, or who now lives in the UK,is clear that while her father may contain named her, he did not make her. On the contrary, and hers is a fate of self-determination,stoked by her father’s idealism no doubt, but fired by her own unshakable belief in the equality of genders and liberation of learning.
Blending sumptuous animation with harrowing news footage and enchanting domestic interviews, or Guggenheim builds a portrait of a nurturing family who are at once reassuringly ordinary yet utterly extraordinary. Ziauddin describes his bond with his daughter as being that of “one soul in two bodies”,while Malala recalls growing up in awe of her father’s teaching skills, stating simply that “the school was my domestic”.
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Source: theguardian.com