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!!Among these mighty tropes came:

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->''"We were at the edges of tropers at [[Administrivia/EditWar war]] with each other as tropes were written and rewritten over thousands of years.''"

* WarIsHell: One of the main themes of the film.

Has nothing to do with the animated series ''WesternAnimation/{{Breadwinners}}''.

* ArtisticLicenseReligion: A minor example. When the girls are finishing their prayer, they clearly do not recite the ''tashahud''[[note]]the penultimate portion of the prayer where a Muslim kneels on the ground.[[/note]].

* ArtisticLicenseReligion: A minor example. When the girls are finishing their prayer, they clearly do not recite the ''tashahud''.

!!The film contains examples of:

* AluminumChristmasTrees: [[TheHero Parvana]] and [[AxCrazy Idrees]] have green and blue eyes, respectively, which might look strange for a film populated entirely by non-European characters. The funny thing is, none of them is particularly unusual in Afghanistan, and then some (e.g. the famous [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Girl Afghan Girl]], one of Parvana's inspirations, also has green eyes).

* RedsWithRockets: The Soviet military appears in a flashback (as silhouettes) in the intro of the movie, and the legacy of the Soviet intervention is felt throughout the movie. Tanks still lay in ruin and mines deployed by both sides still claim many lives like [[spoiler: Suleiman and Hala]] years later. Ironically, many Afghans had been united against the Communist forces, only to emerge bitterly divided once extremists such as the Taliban took over.
* TheReveal: No one in Parvana's family wants to talk about how her older brother died. At the end of the film, the StoryWithinAStory reveals that [[spoiler:he picked up a toy in the street that had a bomb inside it]].
** Actually, the "toy" was likely to have been a hand grenade or small explosives device that Sulayman mistook for a toy (see ChildrenAreInnocent).

[[caption-width-right:320:''[[{{Creator/Rumi}} "Raise your words, not your voice.\\

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Parvana manages to get her weakened father out of prison thanks to the help of Razaq ([[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished who may die of the bullet wounds he received for it]]), and Fattema, Soraya, and Zaki manage to drive off the cruel relative come to collect them against their will. But each group is stranded in the middle of the road the same night that a war is starting and bombs are approaching, so it is uncertain if either group will survive the night, let alone find each other later. But for now, they are happy to be together and to have a ''chance'' of reuniting later.]]

* ArtisticLicenseLinguistics: Soraya and Parvana call their mother "mama jan" ("jan" being an endearment term that is often attached to the ends of names by Dari-speaking Afghans). In Dari, "mama" means uncle while "madar" means mother. This was likely done in order to make it easier for viewers who speak english or spanish to understand.

* ChildrenAreInnocent: Averted with Parvana and Shauzia, who are forced to disguise themselves as boys, do hard work on the streets and expose themselves to the horrors of the Taliban regime to provide for their families. Played straight with the toddler Zaki.

* SecularHero: Averted. The characters are routinely shown performing Islamic rites and customs throughout the movie.

* AdultFear: The entire movie is made of this. Living in a war zone under a tyrannical regime, having your disabled spouse unjustly arrested, being completely unable to work, having to send your preteen daughter to do dangerous work on the streets and risk discovery just so that you can put some food on the table, being violently abused by a family member who holds the key to your livelihood... the list goes on.

Durrr