Multiple Diseases in Iranian Society

Carroll 2022-03-24 09:03:24

The film shows the various faces of Iranian society through a small window such as a taxi. The director was banned from making movies, and in desperation, he pretended to be a taxi driver and took such a way of recording images to shoot the subject matter.
The first passenger was a pirated disc dealer who sold excellent foreign films to a film school student, and included the director as an accomplice. The pirated disc seller said: "If I didn't sell foreign discs, then the excellent foreign films would not be seen." This fully demonstrates the fact that the domestic film market in Iran is closed. Without an open and diverse cultural environment, artistic creations such as movies in Iran would be a dream.
The second passengers were two old women who were in a hurry to go to a place to release the goldfish. If the goldfish died, their lifespan would be over. Sometimes some beliefs are foolish and ignorant.
The third passenger was a little girl, the director's niece. The little girl's teacher assigned an assignment to shoot a short film, so the little girl has been filming the scene outside the window continuously since she got in the car. She photographed a little boy picking up trash picking up the money that the groom had dropped on the ground. She felt that this was not in line with the positive spirit emphasized in her short film, so she begged the little boy to return the money to the groom, but the little boy picked it up again. The bridegroom's other piece of money fell to the ground and went away. The world of a child is very simple. He thinks that the world must be beautiful and pure. He also hopes to see everything in the film that is decorated with peace. However, the world will not change because of you. Instead, the world will show you the complete opposite.
The fourth passenger is a female lawyer who exudes independence, freedom and thoughtfulness. Holding a big bunch of red roses, she went to the prison to visit a girl who was wrongfully imprisoned, and wanted to see if she could help the girl. "They turned your life into a prison, and when you walked out of the house, the city turned into a big prison," she said. "They turned your best friend into an enemy, and you either have to run away or you can only expect Sit through the prison."
In the last scene of the film, the two young men smashed the director's car window and rummaged through the memory card.
Closure, whitewashing of peace, and imperfect legal system, this is a mirror that reflects the state of Iranian society.

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  • 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.

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