The Price of Honor

Brace yourself, this is a tough and incredibly difficult film to view.

You'll find yourself enraged, engulfed in absolute terror, and feelings of absolute chaos at the hands of an irredeemable murderer of a father and what can only be described as an ignorant, stupid and completely narcissistic mother.

If not for the complete and utter betrayal of a mother who could only see her own wants and supposed needs, her daughters are still here- I cannot express enough how much seething anger I feel for this complete waste of a human being.

Within ten minutes you will know the final outcome and it feels as if you're watching a D-level made for TV movie, instead of a true story that has us still looking for this monster of a man and for some ungodly reason, the facilitator in their mother who is not being held accountable for her part in their deaths and is residing with the family of the murderer who has still avoided capture.

It was tough to watch this film but it is a story still happening around the globe, and within the US with shocking regularity. A bit more into the sister would have been good as well as the psychotic mother and incredible denial.

12 years free. Said will be burning in HELL FOREVER.

And Patricia Owens Said is even dumber than Anna Duggar.

Don't buy those FAKE TEARS their mother wipes away in their story. It is largely Patricia's fault that they are dead.

I remember seeing this on the news and finding it so shocking. But then to watch this documentary shows truly how horrific and shocking it was. It feels made up because it's so hard to believe but unfortunately that's not the case. I also agree with other viewers that Sarah wasn't spoken about enough, but the documentary was short, gripping And informative.

I don't disagree with many of the other reviewers who are critical of how the film was put together, or how much time it spent with one sister as opposed to the other, or some other storyline/technical aspects of it. I wonder if, to some extent, they were limited in who they could talk to or who would talk to them (for example, did Sara have a boyfriend/boyfriend's family who would talk? Were there people who were "close" enough to Yeser and its herd to provide more info?) Having said that, when I finished watching this movie, I saw the sperm donor ("father" if we were talking about a human) and womb provider ("mother" with the previous caveat) as unmitigated evil and off-the-chart stupidity, respectively. I felt for the friends and relatives of the girls, and grieved for them and the girls. To that extent, this movie was an overwhelming success, and worth the 9 I gave it.

I was aware Yaser and accomplices were recently captured. Thankful TX is a death penalty state.

Helplessness. Frustration. Repulsion. Rage. Grief. Emptiness. And sadness - a deep, lingering sadness that grips you and wont let go.

These are but a taste of the myriad of intense emotions that the story of Amina and Sarah Said will take hold in your heart, and stay with you long after it has played out to its conclusion.

For me its been since that night long ago, likely sometime in 2008, when the tragedy of the Said sisters first came to light on America's Most Wanted. This docudrama begins with that tape - that 911 tape I first heard on AMW. That tape was presented on that first airing, and replayed on repeated airings as the hunt for Yaser Said continued for months, then years. That tape has haunted me until this very day. Admittedly, hearing it again brought forth all those emotions again in an instant, and tears started to flow. All the questions that originated from that night came flooding back - the main one being "How can this happen here in America?" And yet in the ensuing years we've come to know that it was all too real -- that Yaser was, and is, one of the most despicably evil souls ever to walk our American shores.

You cannot have a shred of decency in you and not feel rage toward the so-called father of these two teen girls, and toward his family of protectors. You will also feel intense emotion over the continued denial of their cowardly American mother. Part of us can understand it was her self-preservation kicking in, based on a very real fear over what could happen to her. But still, its all so inexcusable.

You will also come to understand - as much as it can be understood - the cultural discrepancies that exist that would allow a crime such as this to ever be acceptable on any level.

The team that put this together did a solid job, no doubt at times putting themselves at great risk from a family of brothers and those who would help to protect them at any cost. I commend them for their determination to doing this right, and seeing it through to what was at the time in 2013 an empty conclusion.

One weakness of this film is it puts heavy emphasis on the older sister Amina, while keeping Sarah in the distant background for most of it. While they had full access to Amina's boyfriend and his mother, its likely they were unable to get cooperation from the family of Sarah's love interest. One can fully understand a family's apprehension to participate in this due to the risk it would entail.

The one satisfying factor in all of this is that a resolution finally came about in 2020. I dont feel its any type of spoiler to add this, as it would be common knowledge to anyone who has followed the case over the years.

Sarah and Amina, I pray for your souls. You didnt deserve the fate you encountered. But you have touched so many hearts with your vibrancy, your spirit, your love of life. Neither of you will ever be forgotten. Certainly not by me. Not for a moment.