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Iman: Sana wants to have blue hair?
Investigating judge Iman struggles with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran. When his gun goes missing, he suspects his wife and daughters and imposes draconian measures that strain family ties as the rules of society crumble. Director Mohammad Rasoulof was originally scheduled to attend the 2023 Cannes Film Festival as a member of the Un Certain Regard section jury. However, he was arrested in July 2022 after criticizing the government’s crackdown on protesters in the southwestern Iranian city of Abadan over the deadly building collapse. On 8 May 2024, Rasouloff’s lawyer announced that he had been sentenced to eight years in prison, as well as whipping, a fine and confiscation of his property. On May 12, 2024, Rasouloff announced that he had managed to escape from Iran and was staying in an undisclosed location in Europe. On May 24, 2024, Rasouloff attended the film’s Cannes premiere and posed for photos with two of the film’s actors, Soheila Golestani and Missagh Zareh, on the red carpet. Painted nails? Why?
Children think differently
Najmeh: The world has changed. Iman: The world has changed, but God has not. Nor his laws. Najmeh: We have to teach them. Iman: I’ve always done that. Introduction: “Ficus Religiosa is a tree with an unusual life cycle. Its seeds, contained in bird droppings, fall on other trees. Aerial roots shoot upward and grow to the ground. The branches then wrap around the host tree, strangling it.
One step away from becoming a judge
After all, the fig tree stands alone.” Many of us know about the recent protests in Iran and the tragic death of Mahsa Amini in 2022. In Iran, wearing the hijab is mandatory and enforced by an overzealous religious police. Outside of Iran, it’s hard to understand that something that seems trivial to us is such a big deal. This movie works because it takes us into the middle of a family affected by these issues. It looks like actual protest footage (properly blurred) is mixed in with the fictional actors. This gives the film a more urgent tone. The husband works as an investigator for the regime. At work, he is under great pressure to prosecute a large number of religious “crimes” without due process. He finds that the price of his promotion is blind obedience.
He has two daughters
One goes to high school and the other goes to university (college). One of the daughters has a friend who is shot after being in a crowd near a demonstration. We are told he was an innocent bystander. The mother of the family is very concerned about protecting the status and reputation of the family, which will give them a bigger apartment to live in. However, this will not happen unless all aspects of life are clean. They can’t even tell the daughters what the father is doing because it’s a security risk. In one of the first frames of the film we see the father receiving ammunition and a gun. He gets a promotion, but he has to be able to protect himself. What we see in the story is literally a Chekhov rifle.
I saw this movie at a festival
A concept you can look up 🙂 The gun goes missing from the apartment and the father has to find it or face possible jail time for losing it. This ramps up the tension a few notches and the film loses a bit from there. The main effect of the film is to personalize the various political constraints that each family member faces. The best art takes us beyond the headlines and shows us what’s happening and what it looks and feels like in real life. The story is fictional, but it feels like a documentary in many ways. As a film, it manages to help us empathize with real people caught up in this kind of terror. There were some unbearable and quite emotional scenes. We are now approaching the second anniversary of this wave of protests. Not a single person died in the protests.
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