Abbas shocked me again.
While watching the movie, I tried to come to two conclusions: I divided the world into two parts, the real and the spiritual; and most of us, like the law enforcement officer behind the close-up of Hussein and the one at the beginning of the movie taxi driver.
The first is because I have observed that everyone in the film appropriately plays a certain firm role, and each event can be interpreted and classified from two aspects. For example, pretending to be a director is in reality. The world is considered wrong and stupid, and Hussein will be naturally positioned as a bad person, but we look at this from the spiritual world. Hussein, who is at the bottom of the society, only has movies as his spiritual support. In the face of a bleak life, he is like anyone who is obsessed with one belief, and he is even fanatical enough to play the person he admires, and find another identity (the one he dreams of) to show him the warmth and loveliness of the world , what is wrong with him?
The characters in the movie, Hussein lives more in the happiness of the spiritual world, just like the calm before being arrested, and the fact that he could have cheated but didn't do it, he doesn't care about reality and doesn't force it. , and this is exactly the same as his attitude in the conversation with another gentleman in Ahenha, his understanding of the relationship between nature and man, his understanding of his work attitude, the joy and enthusiasm in his eyes, and his understanding of the court Compared with the grin that grinned when he recalled the happiness that remained in the memories of his association with Mr. Ahengha's family, Hussein was so eager and valued for the happiness of the spiritual world.
Journalists are the face of the real world. He planned and witnessed the arrest of Hussein, and he saw the event as a good opportunity for his fame and fortune, taking advantage of one's pain for his own gain, which he never thought about, and has no need to think about ( Who cares about the prisoner's grievances, he's the erring one, not the sympathetic one, he thought), he eagerly goes from house to house looking for the tapes so that his record can go smoothly, he discloses to the judge in court other allegations against Hussey. Because of the testimony, so that the case does not end simply, can add some clues to become bizarrely complicated, and finally benefit his own reporting. The ultimate goal falls on the level of reality, and the premise is that Hussein is guilty.
The Ahengha family, the judge, and Abbas behind the camera are the ones who unify the real and spiritual worlds very well. They neither support Hussein's actions out of sympathy and understanding, nor capture this Not letting go of the facts, he attributed all of Hussein's motives to sin, but helped Hussein find the crux of the problem during the conversation. On the other hand, he also asked Hussein to educate himself and found out that A group of people who have not paid attention to, they have a kind heart like themselves.
The second point is that the law enforcement officers behind Hussein have been out of focus most of the time, and not many viewers may pay attention. His expression is from listening carefully to Hussein's story to looking around impatiently. He continued to listen in a state of extreme boredom, but at a certain moment he would show a serious and engrossed expression. He might have been moved by this seemingly absurd person. A taxi driver would talk to reporters about Hussein's story with a smile. When it comes to a fact, he would easily believe other people's versions. He would also kindly talk to strangers in the back seat of the car to learn about other people's lives and get out of the car. Picking up flowers and placing them behind the front windshield as decoration, watching tin cans roll down the slope with curiosity, and charging as usual the fare of a journalist friend who seems to be a new acquaintance. I think they represent, at least for a moment, what most of us really are.
The appearance of the fake director Mark Mabaf himself just hit my tears. The shot of him riding a motorcycle with Hussein holding flowers on the road is like the most gentle hint, just It was as if spring told people the message of her coming with the green buds visible from the head. If I may, I'd say, he's playing Abbas' desire for the world in this film.
Of course, the interpretation of the events in the film can be done in many ways. Social critics will use this to criticize the separation of social classes in Iran, and they will analyze that people at the bottom who have no material foundation can only rely on their fantasies, while other film characters with abundant material resources Of course, there are reasons to develop soundly and achieve a balance between reality and spirit. They will also satirize the deprivation of money in modern society for people’s pursuit of themselves. Close-up is not only for Hussein, but also for the entire society; psychologists We will do an excellent psychoanalysis of each character, giving them the best advice for their growth and development; we young people will try to compare Hussein to ourselves, indulging in the insanity of the spiritual world in the years without material foundation. Soundness and immaturity, to see both sides of the coin of life.
What I want to say is that we can know more about the world through "Close-Up", a plain and straightforward pseudo-documentary, which cannot give us visual and sensory shocks, but is definitely in a deeper place, like a bunch of passing through The sunlight shining into the dark room through the gaps in the curtains made us suddenly realize that there are curtains in this room.
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