The beginning minutes of the movie – which was honored as the best foreign language movie at this year’s Academy Awards (Oscar) – portraits a serious intelligence service officer who believes in his job and duty, with no emotions and respect to humanity. So choosing him as the devil part of the story is the easiest thing you can do in the first 10 minutes. Specially when he sleeps with a prostitute and asks her to stay more beside him, nobody will feel sorrow for the police officer. But you will blame yourself for this at the end of the story! The policeman shows his real nature during the movie.
The story is so sad; thinking about the lives of people that are being wasted by some dictators is so annoying and watching a woman who sleeps with a government to protect her man, is not an interesting thing. But the hope and honesty you find in the main characters make you happy. When at the end of the movie, a colleague tells to the policeman about the Berlin’s Wall fall, and he leaves his job and goes out, you can feel how much he is happy. You can feel he has been freed. Even if you’ve known that a lot of lives have been murdered during those years.
At the first half of the movie, the writer plays a song for his friend who has hanged himself. After that he says to his girlfriend, “Can someone who's listened to this music, really listened, still be a bad person?”
And we know that there’s a police officer who has really listened to this music.
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[Underground | Emir Kusturica]
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But for me, the best part was Coen brothers’. They tell a story of a foreigner/tourist in subway, waiting for the train. He’s reading a book on Paris and looking around to know it better, suddenly his attention goes to a young couple, kissing and flirting in front of him. He stares at them and it makes the boy angry. At this moment, Coens’ genius begins to make a strange story! If you’ve ever seen their movies, you know what I mean. And Steve Buscemi is great at portraying the main character; in fact he is a master in playing strange roles!
Another story I liked, was ‘Quartier de la Madeleine’ directed by Vincenzo Natali, starring Elijah Wood. Wood is a young boy who is walking in a solitude street. Then he hears a noise and sees a female vampire drinking a dead body’s blood. He tries to hide himself and watch the scene, but in a sudden move, he makes a noise and the vampire finds him. But she (I told before, the vampire is female and so attractive!) ignores to kill Wood and sucks his blood…
These two stories are my favorites in this movie, but there are other good stories, for example that story of the blind boy and Natalie Portman or that one with Oscar Wild’s grave! I think ‘Paris Je T’aime’ is a good movie that worth to be watched. And at the end it can make you a Paris-lover!
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P.S. Oh! The header image will be updated as I find attractive shots.
[God's Warriors | CNN]
]]>In my opinion it’s a great idea and seems to be an interesting website. You know the most difficult part of immigration for an artist is living and working in a new society and culture. It causes a lot of problems and there are a lot of genius artists who haven’t continued their work in a new country.
This website can help Iranian artists to find each other out of their hometown and encourage them to work more and more.
Yaghoub Yadali is an Iranian young author who has written a very good novel named “The behavior of unrest”. This book got some important prizes and was among the best novels of the year, 2 years ago.
The story happens in east of Iran. But now he has been jailed because of this book, because the people of that part of Iran believe that the author has insulted them by writing a story about a woman who lives there! It’s so sad that an artist has been jailed because of his artwork. He has spent more than 40 days behind the bars.
The movie is about two young policemen, one of them (Matt Damon) has been grown up by the head of gangsters and now he is his spy in police department. And the other one (Leonardo DiCaprio), who has come from a mobster family, becomes a police insider in mobster’s gangs. The entire story is about these two guys, and after the half time passed, they try to find each other. But you know, it’s just the top layer of this movie. I think that ‘The Departed’ is about the truth and lie, and the way we choose for our life.
At the beginning of the movie, Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson) tells young Colin Sullivan (Damon), “A man makes his own way”. I think that this is the most important quote of the movie.
Now, Mohsen Namjoo, an Iranian underground singer has made a music video for this actress. I strongly recommend you to visit this page and watch the video.
It’s bitter but great video and music.
Azadeh Pourzand: 50 of the women's rights movement activists were arrested in front of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran.
The security police forces attacked a peaceful gathering of women's rights activists that had taken place at 8:30 am in front of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran in objection to the recent governmental oppressions and the summoning of some of these activists. The police forces who used violence to scatter the crowd, arrested at least 21 of the protesters.
According to the report published by Advar News, the list of the arrested is as follows:
Asieh Amini, Jila Bani Yaghoub, Mahboubeb Abbasgholizadeh, Mahboubeh Hosseinzadeh, Sara Loghmani, Zara Amjadian, Mariam Hossein Khah, Jelveh Javaheri, Niloofar Golkar, Parastoo Dokoohaki, Zeinab Peyghambarzadeh, Maryam Mirza, Saghar Laghayee, Khadijeh Moghaddam, Saghie Laghayee, Nahid Keshavarz, Mahnaz Mohammadi, Nasrin Afzali, Tal'at Taghinia, Fakhri Shadfar, Maryam Shadfar, Elnaz Ansari, Fatemeh Govarayee, Azadeh Forghani, Sommayeh Farid, Minoo Mortezayee, Sara Imanian.
Nooshin Amhadi Khorasani, Parvin Ardalan, Shahla Entesari and Susan Tahmasebi—five prominent members of the women's rights movement—who had to attend their court hearing left the court session in support of their fellow activists. They, too, got arrested upon their departure from the court.
The police officers hit Nahid Jafari's head to the police van and as a result of such violent actions, her teeth broke and the officers are currently refusing to take her to the emergency room.
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