between film and reality

Dell 2022-03-21 09:03:03

In the camouflaged real shot, the director himself is the driver, driving a taxi to carry passengers, all kinds of things, and the car is equipped with a camera, and the director also adjusts the lens from time to time to follow the shooting. In fact, it is definitely not just the camera lens in the car, just like the director is definitely not just a taxi driver, they are all cameos, which probably blurs the film and reality. In the film, the director's little niece is also filming with a camera in her hand, and there is even a photographer filming an episode of a couple of newlyweds. The film also uses the little niece's mouth to express many limitations of Iranian films, as if to explore what is real ? What is a good person? By name? clothing? What should be banned the most? Women go to play ball? Female lawyers who are actively involved in social affairs? Or the director who used the lens to faithfully record what was going on? Or the theft that is shown multiple times in the film in different ways? At first, I thought the director was using this semi-realistic way to show off his skills. I didn't like this kind of cleverness, but in retrospect, I think the director deliberately blurred the film and reality, hoping to make people think. Of course, maybe I overinterpreted, But no matter what, I didn't like it very much. I just finished watching it and didn't give up the film. Thinking about it, it was also the first Iranian film I watched that was filmed in the city. Before, I almost thought that Iran was khaki, khaki hillsides, khaki houses, dirty people... So, the movie is especially famous Movies are really national business cards

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  • Guy 2022-03-27 09:01:18

    Mr. Panasi is admirably narcissistic. It's great that the whole world is your fans, and the whole world is familiar with your movies. If Berlin goes on like this, it will be over sooner or later.

  • Rachael 2022-03-26 09:01:12

    [Exhibition at China Film Archive] One person, one car, one fake documentary, watching the human feelings in Tehran, and explaining various issues in contemporary Iran: the death penalty system, the status of women, pirated films, religious beliefs, film censorship, and judicial injustice. Under the circumstance of being banned from filming, Jafar Panasi inherited the creative method of Abbas' film "10", insisted on creating and speaking under extremely limited and harsh conditions, which is worthy of admiration. In the movie, it is the director and the lawyer who play themselves. Behind the creation, it is the U disk hiding the film transnational transmission, the niece receiving the award, and the female lawyer being sentenced to prison. It is the film that shines into reality, and it is reality that shines into the film.

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Taxi quotes

  • Nasrin Sotoudeh: They work in a way that let us to know they are watching us.Their tactics are obvious.First, they write you up a police record. Suddenly, you are accused of being an agent for Mossad, The CIA, or MI6. Then they tack on something about your morals, your lifestyle. They make your life into a prison.Although you are released from prison, but the outside world is only a bigger prison.They make your nearest friends into your worst enemies.After that you think all you can do is either leave the country or pray to return to that hole. So i think it's better to let it go.

  • Jafar Panahi: Those films are already made, those books are already written. You have to look elsewhere, you have to find it for yourself.