He Named Me Malala Page #6

Synopsis: A look at the events leading up to the Taliban's attack on Pakistani schoolgirl, Malala Yousafzai, for speaking out on girls' education followed by the aftermath, including her speech to the United Nations.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Davis Guggenheim
Production: 20th Century Fox
  Won 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 6 wins & 19 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
61
Rotten Tomatoes:
72%
PG-13
Year:
2015
88 min
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written by Malala Yousafzai.

MALE REPORTER:

The school board president

said Malala represented

the views of the West.

There are many other peopIe

who are doing much more

for the Pakistani community.

That's a big question for us.

Why she's getting

so much attention.

She's getting a Iot of fame

and I think it's more of

a pubIicity stunt.

She shouId have stayed in Swat.

She went to EngIand.

MaIaIa is just

name of a character.

It can be anyone.

She's a girI.

She don't know anything.

(MAN SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)

Her father wrote everything for her.

That's why she's so famous.

GUGGENHEIM:
l've noticed

something about you.

Yeah?

GUGGENHEIM:
You don't Iike

to taIk about your suffering.

(CHUCKLES )

GUGGENHEIM:

You're avoiding the question.

I am?

You're avoiding my question.

Of course I am. (LAUGHS )

GUGGENHEIM:
You don't like

to talk about it.

(CHUCKLES )

Well, I don't know.

Every night you would hear

the noises of the bomb blasts.

And in the morning,

the school was no more there.

They destroyed

more than 400 schools.

Finally, the Taliban

became so strong...

they could make a demand

more devastating

than their bombs.

(FAZLULLAH SPEAKING

OTHER LANGUAGE ON SPEAKERS )

After January 15th,

from the oIdest to the youngest ...

... not one singIe girI shouId go to schooI.

MALALA:
The Taliban said that

no girl can go to school...

and if she goes,

then you know what we can do.

The government decided

to take military action

against the Taliban.

There was fighting everywhere.

With millions of others,

our family had to leave

our beautiful Swat Valley.

For three months,

we moved from place to place.

Refugees in our own country.

What's his name?

MaIik.

There's no schooIs.

Ranim used to go to schooI

because she's six,

but now they've destroyed

the schooIs.

MALALA:
No matter

where you go in the world...

no matter what country,

what religion...

you will find children

who are out of school.

ln just three years,

3 million Syrian children

are no longer in school.

Each day,

hundreds cross the border

to escape war.

(MALALA GREETS

IN ARABIC)

Peace be upon you.

People argue about the war

and debate

about the politics...

but who is thinking

about the children?

When we returned home

we were hopeful.

But those old, busy roads

were vacant.

Many houses and schools

were destroyed.

The Taliban

were no more on the roads,

but the target killing

continued.

Our beautiful school

was used in the fighting.

lt was school where l would

see my friends every day.

Where we would learn

every day.

lt was school which was

giving me hope...

which was building up

my future.

There is a moment

when you have to choose...

whether to be silent

or to stand up.

ZIAUDDIN:
Sometimes

some people just say that...

one should protect his life...

protect his family.

MALALA:
When l was little,

many people would say...

''Change Malala 's name.

''lt's a bad name,

it means sad. ''

But my father

would always say,

''No, it has another meaning.

''Bravery. ''

ZIAUDDIN:
The BBC blog,

it was very safe.

lt was anonymous.

But it was not enough.

MALALA:
l knew

what the risk would be,

standing in front of

the camera.

He didn't push me.

He let me do what l wanted.

When every man was losing

courage at the battlefield,

a woman raised her voice.

Speak, Malala.

Speak from your heart.

Speak what's inside your soul.

(MALALA SPEAKING

IN OTHER LANGUAGE)

Even if I have nowhere to sit,

and have to sit on the fIoor

to get an education,

I will do that.

You are not afraid of anyone?

I am afraid of no one.

(FAZLULLAH SPEAKING

OTHER LANGUAGE ON SPEAKERS )

Don't dare go forward.

If you do, remember that you,

and your home, will not be safe!

(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)

ZIAUDDIN:
She was

the first one who named them.

The same FazIullah, who

sIaughtered our brothers

and beat our girIs with cIubs,

why do you Iet him be?

Why are Sufi Muhammad, MusIim Khan

and FazIullah still free?

MALALA:
We started

sneaking to the school.

Going secretly.

(FAZLULLAH SPEAKING

OTHER LANGUAGE ON SPEAKERS )

Remember, I know you!

Listen carefully,

when I am willing to kill myseIf,

others are nothing to me.

This is not just for MaIaIa Yousafzai,

but it is in the name of those girIs

who fight for their rights,

raise their voice for their rights and

have the passion to get educated.

ZIAUDDIN:

They'll never kill a child.

l never, never expected that.

MALALA:

l have the right to sing.

l have the right

to go to market.

l have the right to speak up.

l will get my education

if it is in home,

school or any place.

They cannot stop me.

ZIAUDDIN:

l was in a press club

and it was my turn to speak.

My friend received a call.

''Malala 's school bus

has been attacked. ''

She was taken

to a military hospital.

The doctors performed

an emergency surgery.

There were a lot of people

in the hospital.

Nobody thought

that she will survive.

Me and my wife,

we cried all the night.

REPORTER 1:
The doctors made

the decision to move her.

REPORTER 2:

The plane that she's in now,

provided by

the United Arab Emirates...

is a special air ambulance...

DR. REYNOLDS:

lt wasn't certain

that she could survive.

DR. ROSSER:
A large

piece of bone was removed

when her brain

started swelling.

DR. REYNOLDS:
Although she was

on very strong antibiotics,

she had some infection.

DR. KAYANI:
Sepsis has got

a very high mortality rate.

DR. ROSSER:
The procedure

she will be undergoing

in the next week...

is putting a titanium plate

over the deficit in her skull.

DR. REYNOLDS:
Malala 's kidneys

had started to shut down.

Her blood acid levels

had started to rise.

Her blood had

stopped clotting properly.

DR. ROSSER:
Malala is still

showing some signs

of infection.

She has undergone

a further surgical procedure

to repair

her left facial nerve.

DR. REYNOLDS:
She wasn't

moving her right side well.

That area of the brain was

still not working properly.

DR. ROSSER:
The second part

of the procedure

she'll be undergoing

a cochlear implant.

DR. REYNOLDS:
l was

very worried that survival

would be with

major disabilities.

When she first woke up,

she didn't believe that

her father was alive.

She had got it into her head

that he'd been targeted

and he was dead.

Every time l saw her

she asked me,

''So where's my father?''

ZIAUDDIN:
We were thinking,

''What Malala

will be thinking?''

''l was a child.

You should have stopped me.

''What has happened to me

is because of you. ''

The doctors told me,

''She will survive. ''

But would she recover?

And...

ZIAUDDIN:
Like this. Good.

There was still a fear that

she may not be

the same as she was.

Would she be able to walk?

Would she be able to talk?

Okay.

(THERAPIST SPEAKING

INDISTINCTLY)

ZIAUDDIN:

Would she be able to speak

as she used to speak?

With the same spirit?

GORDON BROWN:
lt is a miracle

that you are

here with us today.

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Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai (Malālah Yūsafzay: Urdu: ملالہ یوسفزئی‬‎; Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ‎ [məˈlaːlə jusəf ˈzəj]; born 12 July 1997) is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women and children in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become "the most prominent citizen" of the country.Yousafzai was born to a Pashtun family in Mingora, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Her family came to run a chain of schools in the region. Considering Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Benazir Bhutto as her role models, she was particularly inspired by her father's thoughts and humanitarian work. In early 2009, when she was 11–12, she wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC Urdu detailing her life during the Taliban occupation of Swat. The following summer, journalist Adam B. Ellick made a New York Times documentary about her life as the Pakistani military intervened in the region. She rose in prominence, giving interviews in print and on television, and she was nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize by activist Desmond Tutu. On 9 October 2012, while on a bus in the Swat District, after taking an exam, Yousafzai and two other girls were shot by a Taliban gunman in an assassination attempt in retaliation for her activism; the gunman fled the scene. Yousafzai was hit in the head with a bullet and remained unconscious and in critical condition at the Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology, but her condition later improved enough for her to be transferred to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, UK. The attempt on her life sparked an international outpouring of support for Yousafzai. Deutsche Welle reported in January 2013 that Yousafzai may have become "the most famous teenager in the world". Weeks after the attempted murder, a group of fifty leading Muslim clerics in Pakistan issued a fatwā against those who tried to kill her. Taliban officials responded to condemnation by further denouncing Yousafzai, indicating plans for a possible second assassination attempt which was justified as a religious obligation. Their statements resulted in further international condemnation.Following her recovery, Yousafzai became a prominent activist for the right to education. Based out of Birmingham, she founded the Malala Fund, a non-profit organisation, and in 2013 co-authored I am Malala, an international best seller. In 2012, she was the recipient of Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize and the 2013 Sakharov Prize. In 2014, she was the co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, along with Kailash Satyarthi. Aged 17 at the time, this made her the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. In 2015, Yousafzai was a subject of the Oscar-shortlisted documentary He Named Me Malala. The 2013, 2014 and 2015 issues of Time magazine featured her as one of the most influential people globally. In 2017, she was awarded honorary Canadian citizenship and became the youngest person to address the House of Commons of Canada. Yousafzai attended Edgbaston High School from 2013 to 2017, and is currently studying for a bachelor's degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. more…

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