The individual's nostalgia dilutes the grand historical discourse of the Iran-Iraq war, and infiltrates more delicacy related to the growth of life. The wrestling between revolution and counter-revolution has gone absurd in the "delay" of the war. The goals of the original revolution had been forgotten, and the "revolutionaries" slaughtered at will in a bloody feast. The revolution of 1789 confessed that its costs were unaffordable, and its results were hardly satisfactory. The chaotic status quo can only breed superiors and conspirators who defend "justice" and "religion", and can only expel those children who are reluctant to part with their hometown. The sigh of being a stranger in a foreign land is full of helplessness about the status of exile. Lawrence of Arabia may have gone the furthest along the "super-national" road, but in vain. "Nation" is a tribal imagination created by Homo sapiens, a cultural barrier that can never be surpassed, and a cultural identity that identifies "us" and "them". How can I come back? The biggest sadness of "dissidents" is that they have gone from "us" to "them", but they are unable to influence the surrounding. Marjane is a heretic, but she is not Zweig's heresy. The persecution against her was not organic, but spiritual. Speculation and courage have contributed to her indictment of the low status of women under religious hegemony, in order to release the long-suppressed moral libido. Iran is destined to be silent; however, I still love you, my motherland.
- Mamie, tu sens toujours bon. Comment tu fais?
- Tu vois, je cueille des fleurs de jasmin tous les matins, et quand je m'habille, je les glisse dans mon soutien-gorge. Comme ça, je sens toujours bon.
- Waouh! C'est super!
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