And this does not only refer to the order in the face that the plastic surgeons are restoring, but also about the order in society. This film is about ruthless people in the less civilized world using acid to disfigure people's faces. Or I should maybe not say "people's" but "females" as this documentary is about Mohammed Jawad and some of the patients he works with. All of them had to go through the horror I mentioned before and it was actually nice to see one of the offenders being sentenced to a double life jail sentence near the end. This shows that the legal system has progressed so much that there is hardly no sexual discrimination anymore or that such horrible acts can somewhat be justified by religion. Still I have a little criticism about these Academy-Award-winning 40 minutes. There is nothing I really learned from this documentary. Everything portrayed in there is good and the doctor is a very admirable man, but I am not sure how to rate this from the perspective of filmmaking. Maybe it would also have been better to not make this film in order to protect the doctor from barbaric acts himself as some people may not be happy at all with him touching women in one of their most sensitive areas. Sometimes anonymity isn't a bad thing. So all in all, I recommend this documentary and it is nice to see the two directors getting into a prolific career after this one. I am just not too enthusiastic about it like many other viewers.
Review of Saving Face
