'The Wind will Carry Us'

I need to start a list of things that scared the middle-class, caucasian, rural me as a kid.

No. 1 is NWA.

No. 2 was Iran and Ayatollah Khomeini.

Maybe Iran's a great place like is shown in "The Wind Will Carry Us" and maybe the Ayatollah was a super guy.

But that place just seemed so desolate and unforgiving and the Ayatollah seemed so evil and hateful.

It's hard watching films like this and realizing that maybe -- just maybe -- all country's are beautiful and sweet like they're depicted in film.