What relevance does the film have to how women were treated in Saudi Arabia 25 years ago?
I think this film captured the subjugation of the women in Saudi Arabia, which remains true today. Not really very much changed in the status of women in Saudi Arabia. The women who were veiled then are veiled now; the women who were segregated then, segregated now. And Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world that women cannot drive and cannot vote and do not have the legal status that’s equal to a man. A woman in Saudi Arabia is still considered by Saudi law to be an extension of a man. That man can be her father, her husband, her son and her grandson. So she, a woman, is not a creature or a human with free will. Her will is subjected to the will of a man. In your articles you have written that one woman’s life is equal to one man’s leg. As I said, the status of a woman in Saudi Arabia is not equal to the status of a man. She is part of the man. And I think that is based on the sort of this biblical or religious principle that woman was created from the rib of a man. So she is p
