The first decade of the new century has passed, and the era of "no rock and no music" is far away, and decades have passed since the Islamic revolution in Iran. Because of the backwardness and obstruction of information, it is difficult for us to imagine the real life of Iranians. If only at the film level, except for weird men and funny children, the Abbass seem to be just a simple page, and it is also difficult for Iranian movies to capture the true side of the foreign country. So what is the reality in Iran and what are their young people doing?
The story of "The Persian Cats No One Knows" is that young people want to form a band. Due to practical obstacles, they can only save the country and take passports and visas to perform outside. The whole movie is a process of constantly searching for band members and getting in touch with different styles of music, from rock, heavy metal, folk songs to RAP, everything. There is a sentence at the beginning of "Voice of Istanbul", which quotes an old saying from Confucius, to the effect that to understand the culture of a place, you need to listen to the music created in that place. What needs to be explained is that these sounds are often not easy to hear, or even inaudible. For example, a song praising a totalitarian society can be heard every day, but the environment that goes with it can never get better. You know, there are hundreds of kinds of music, and some people have an honest face, but they are full of lies.
The old man with the passport preached in the movie, after killing a hundred people, can you still love others in your heart? Answer, why not? He said, either love or kill. The old man is talking about the type of movie. If you secretly change the concept, in terms of music, music will naturally not kill people, so music is a lover. But even so, the criminal authorities do not allow free expression and free music to extol freedom (or even allow a dog to be brought outside). In their view, it is not music, it can only be politics. And after killing countless people, it is impossible for them to truly love others. So some people follow this line of thinking. "The Persian Cat No One Knows" is not a movie about music, it's about politics, and it's true.
When the music is played in the film, the picture often cuts to a set of unrelated scenes. The fast-edited shots include the foggy sky of Tehran, the endless stream of vehicles, and the passing pedestrians. This kind of montage processing has the simplest understanding, and the music of young people is closely related to this country. The deeper meaning is that they replaced those silent people with voices, singing that penetrated the soul. However, "The Persian Cat No One Knows" is by no means a bitter and bitter woman-like movie. Underground bands of all kinds have their own hiding places. Together with the cows on the farm, they hide in the depths of the houses, full of imagination. The pretending grandson in the police station to intercede is even more funny. There is one detail that impressed me. The band rehearsal will be called to the police and the power will be cut off. There is a little boy next door. When he is alone, he will call the police. Everyone is helpless, because the band and the police have become him. Toys.
Some people complain that this movie should not have a tragic ending, but if it is known that the director Bachman Gorbady has been blacklisted by the Iranian government (earlier Jaffa Pannasi was caught and thrown into jail in plain clothes), Is this kind of ending more realistic and cruel? As for Gobaddi himself, he said, if I had not become a filmmaker, then I would be a musician. 【The Bund Pictorial】
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