Muzafar Saeed ah! was really shocked when I got to know that this movie is based on true story. Painful movie of the stoning here in this case, but in Islam you need a strong evidence for stoning not only for girls and woman's but also for boys and man's .The reason for Stoning in Islam is only for the purpose that our society/world should be safe by the rape cases .But in this movie the stoning case is disturbed Caz the Mayor does not have the strong evidences whether Soraya is involved or not . So after watching this movie I got a point that Stoning case is not verified clearly and nor you people have the permissions to tease this matter. Look who many Rape cases we see all over the world , how many mobile Apps we have installed on our smart phones regarding about happening of these cases like 'Guardian' App from Microsoft for Windows Phone (as I am using it now). If we all people accept stoning then we will notice that these cases will decline Caz every body loves his/her life. So I'm not against Stoning . Why I will ,in our country when my sister leaves home for any purpose say schooling then I too have to go with her Caz I didn't know what is going to happen with her especially on roads and in bus stops . Why our whole generation is found of watching PORN movies ?? the reasons is that they think we will do it to any unknown girl....

Rich Wright A tip: If you are born a female, make sure it's not in Iran.They say it themselves: If you're accused of having an affair, and you're a woman, it's not up to them to prove you're guilty, but for you to establish your innocence. Of course with men, it's the other way around. You've bore your violent husband two girls and two boys and been married to him for twenty years. Suddenly one day, he decides to hitch up with a 14 year old girl instead. That's gratitude for you. But you won't give him a divorce, due to the fact it would leave you virtually penniless. So, he does the only thing a nasty bastard could do... he makes up a cock and bull story about you having an affair with a neighbour... and enlists the help of the local corrupt law officials in his plan. And the punishment for such a crime is... well, look at the title.The Stoning Of Soraya M, as told by Soraya's aunt after the event to a journalist, is one of the hardest films to watch that I've seen in many a moon. Throughout, the sense of injustice and frustration at such an unfair situation makes you want to scream, and the uncomfortableness factor is moved up about 50 notches at the stoning itself... when everyone, from Soraya's sons to her own father takes it in turns to chuck rocks at her while she's half buried in the soil. Of course, the injuries are graphically displayed... Making this possibly the most upsetting final act since Jesus's fate was sealed in The Passion Of The Christ. Both are extended slow deaths where nothing is left to the imagination, so make sure you're mentally prepared before submitting yourself to such a brutal experience.Brilliantly acted, and echoing with the ring of truth, as the epilogue reminds us: this sort of barbarism is still taking place all over the world. We may THINK we're civilised, but incidences like this prove we still have a LONG way to go. Disgraceful. 7/10

meh_baronet almost the worst movie I've seen in ages! not talking about the poor atmosphere and poor acting which are ridiculously trying to show black/white characters,but also this movie lacks reason. as a lawyer who has master degree in criminal law,I should say real stoning has almost no similarity with what we see in this movie.of course I'm against this humiliating punishment,but it doesn't mean I approve all of the lies in this movie about Islamic rules. just as a little example,in the movie it's said Soraya should bring 4 witnesses in order to prove her innocence!blah blah!in Iran like any other place I know,it's to the complainant (and in criminal cases the court also) to prove somebody's guiltiness. just an advice to the director:just research before making a movie about a subject.that's what every professional director does.refer to article 63 to 97 of the Islamic punishment code of Iran.it's even available online! the weakness points of this movie are almost uncountable!did you notice all of the men are bad?you can't at least find one good man there.on the other hand Soraya is flawless in this ugly world and Zahra(Shohreh Aghdashloo who has played her weakest role ever) is the brave woman who's trying to help her.what's the point of all of these feminism? I almost forgot to say:in some scenes I couldn't stop laughing when I heard Soraya speaking Persian with English accent about the very obvious goals of the movie which were supposed to impress the audience!

sddavis63 This is, almost from the start, a painful movie, which by the end becomes an absolutely brutal movie and is almost all the way through a very frightening movie. Set during immediate post-revolutionary Iran, religious fervour (which has little to do with religion and almost everything to do with fervour) is running rampant. In the midst of that maelstrom, an already abusive husband decides that he wants to divorce his wife so that he can take up with another woman. But then he realizes that he'll have to support her, and so he concocts a story accusing her of adultery - the penalty for which is stoning. We watch as the husband engineers rumours and innuendo against his wife; we watch as the whispers become shouts and as suspicion becomes rage; we watch as almost an entire village turns against a woman that they all seem to know is innocent but whom they nevertheless choose to condemn, almost as if this warped action will prove their worthiness to God.It's a brilliant performance from Mozhan Marno as the accused and condemned Soraya. She knows that she's done nothing wrong; she has an almost naive conviction that eventually people will realize that. And yet it's clear that from the beginning this cannot be stopped. The momentum is too great; there's no way to put an end to it even if there was a desire to.In the end this becomes very graphic and bloody. It does, indeed, offer a brutal depiction of a stoning, and it pulls no punches as we watch a bloodied Soraya slowly die under the barrage of rocks thrown at her. As a viewer, you're left with a queasy stomach in stunned silence. In a way, although obviously the movies are very different, this reminded me just a little bit of "The Passion Of The Christ" - the bloodiness and inevitability of the end. Those who are remotely uneasy about bloodiness in a movie will want to avoid the last half hour of this. It is not for the feint of heart.The story is true - based on a book by a French-Iranian reporter played by James Caviezel. As the movie opens, he shows up in town on the day after the stoning needing his car repaired. The story is related to him and unfolds for us through the witness of Soraya's aunt (Shohreh Aghdashloo). As the movie ends, the reporter has to desperately escape the town as he's chased by a mob wanting to prevent him from smuggling the story to the outside world. This movie achieves a delicate balancing act. It shows the dangers of religious extremism, but doesn't come across as anti-Islam. Indeed, Islam is portrayed fairly here, Soraya herself and her aunt being faithful Muslims, who point out to the men their betrayal of Islam in what they're doing. It would have been easy to turn this into an anti- Muslim diatribe. It managed not to turn into that, becoming a critique, perhaps, of culture, and of the ability for less than honourable people to use religion for their own unworthy ends. (8/10)