The movie Bashu: A Little Stranger, is a heartwarming commentary written and directed by Bahram Beizai in 1989 on the effects of war, love, and racism in a small village community in Iran. Beizai challenges the widely accepted Iranian identity through stars Susan Taslimi as Naii, Bashu’s adopted mother and Adnan Afravian as Bashu. The film boasts a simple plot, yet the societal critiques are strong and apparent. It takes place during the Iraq-Iran war, a war brought forth from long standing border conflicts and fears of revolution. Many critics agree that Bashu is a timeless film. Although produced in 1989, this situation could happen at any point in time.
The lead character, a ten-year-old boy named Bashu, begins the movie in the Persian
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Near the beginning of the movie, these visions seem to haunt Bashu. However, as the story continues they become an almost natural presence in the village. Despite the skepticism Bashu and Na’i receive, by the end of the movie he is undoubtedly her son. The themes and symbols in this film are apparent, such as sickness, an eagle, and a mother’s love despite discrimination.
As noted, the movie takes place during the The Iran-Iraq War. The war included religious schisms, border disputes, oil dimensions, and extreme political differences. The conflict divided between supporters of Saddam Hussein and Ayatollah Khomeini, both which had extremely devoted followers. On accounts of religion, the Iraqis believed that Iran's Islamic agenda was a threat to pan-Arabism. On the other side, Khomeini was promising to vindicate Shia victims of Ba'athist repression (CITE). Many critics firmly believe that the war began because of Saddam Hussein’s dire miscalculations. He had underestimated how devoted Khomeini’s followers were, and instead of a quick victory, plunged the states into an eight year war. Politically, Iraq wanted to prove its dominance and force to the Arab world, replacing Iran as the most powerful Persian Gulf state. The Iraqis had an extreme advantage, “the Iraqi military used chemical weapons against Iranian troops” (Tetreault, 158). The Iranians did not
In the movie, the Babadook, the characters express their grief that never leaves. It grows as “monster” that one learns how to deal with because losing someone is never gets easier. These scenes are compared and contrasted through mise-en-scè, cinematography, and editing. This scene analysis is going relate two scenes that helps understand what one goes through after a lost. The movie has characters that help express the misery of one that doesn’t learn how to grieve in a proper manner. How one overcomes the pain and changes for the better and slowly has better days. A brighter day might not come tomorrow, but learning how to control your days come within time.
Sankofa is an Ankan word which means, “We must go back and reclaim our past in order to move forward ( Diop, 2014).” The film Sankofa was produced in the year 1993 in Ghana directed by Haile Gerima. It is based on the Atlantic slave trade. It is the story slavery from the point of view of Africans. In the film, all characters represent an element of African American culture (Gerima, 1993). It also shows the traditional racial scale with the whites at the top followed by Half-castes in the middle and blacks at the bottom.
Iran was now unprotected, and a new power came into being. The Arabs invaded and the quality of life changed. “People fell into poverty as the greedy court imposed ever-increasing taxes. Tyranny tore apart the social contract between ruler and ruled that Zoroastrian doctrine holds to be the basis of organized life” (21). The Iranian people couldn’t survive with a ruler who had no sympathy or respect for them. Their life was being over run by foreigners.
Iraq and Iran have been subjected to a civil war since the seventh century (Murphy 1). This existing problem began because of political and theological divergence, but with the help of outside forces such as Britain, Russia, and North America, it developed into a more complex crisis.
The director showed the strain between the U.S and Iran by using memory, because the movie itself is based on a true incident which happened in 1979. In 1979, the American embassy in Iran was invaded by Iranian revolutionaries and several Americans were taken
Year 11 English: AS 90854 (1.10) Form personal response to independently read texts, supported by evidence.
The film ‘Boy’ (2010) uses a range of techniques to construct an effective mise-en-scene. Taika Waititi (director) has been able to create aesthetically pleasing scenes to communicate to the audience about the setting, characters, story and themes. The sequence at the beginning of the film is an appropriate example of the good use of mise-en-scene.
Benson, Sonia G. "The Iran-Iraq War: 1980 to 1988." Middle East Conflict, 2nd ed., vol. 1: pp. 233-250. Student Resources In Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CX4021100021/SUIC?u=j108911&sid=SUIC&xid=08a2ab6a. Accessed 27 Apr. 2018.
What are you insecure about? Every individual has at least one insecurity that they internally battle with every day. For example, some may be embarrassed of their physical appearance, which may lead to low self-esteem. Others may be socially awkward and some may even be insecure about their financial status. Social anxiety and insecurities have rose among Israelis and Palestinians throughout recent years. In the Television Show, Arab Labor, viewers were shown the personal identity issues that the main character, Amjad, battled with. The personality of Israelis and Palestinians has affected their vulnerability to certain situations following the 2009 Gaza Conflict. They have faced distressing repercussions from war such as posttraumatic stress disorder. In the film, Waltz with Bashir, a young man struggles with reoccurring dreams that stemmed from his time as a solider in the 1982 Lebanon War. Just like any individual on this earth, Israelis and Palestinians face social anxiety and battle with insecurities every day from certain events that affect the way they carry out their everyday lives.
The protagonists and social conflicts in the film The Visitor presented living experience to explore that are different to my personal history. The four actors in the film are all unique from one another, but they possess a universal understanding and awareness that are not different from the life that I know. Walter Vale is a single white male, a widowed and a father who is at the end of his professional career as an academic professor. Walter adult son lives in London and he pretends to be happy with his work, but the truth is he felt unsatisfied, this was expressed at the end of the film. You also saw in the beginning of the movie Walter also didn’t enjoy his piano lessons he took from an elderly woman. Walter found meaning in life the
Art is the expression of human’s creative skill and imagination, art pass through society, and it reflects social life by shaping. Art, such as literature, dance, painting, calligraphy, and music. James Baldwin, a famous African- American author of “Stranger in the village.” He discussed the rank and relationship between the Blacks and Whites in the society. Also, Baldwin went to the village in Leukerbad, and lived with the White Europeans. This essay is about the the experience and history of him. Teju Cole was the one who had read the “Stranger in the village” and he wrote what he felt about James Baldwin’s essay. Their opinions were opposite, but I think there is no right or wrong.
Presented in an engaging and intensely graphic visual style, Waltz with Bashir uses the medium of fluid animation to present layers of history and effectively communicate concepts surrounding how we deal with trauma. Often referencing traumatic events that which current society did not encounter directly themselves, Waltz with Bashir triumphs in the struggle against ethical and visual implications of animated form, evoking a strong emotional response in its visual style. A vector based, frame by frame animation technique was used to present a re-enactment of the events that took place; referencing live-action footage as visual reference for the stand-alone animation process. The opening scene of the film sets up the dramatic visual style; as the camera tracks along, rabid dogs run loose on the streets of Beirut. Initially just one dog running towards the camera, eyes wide and vicious, swiftly multiplies into a pack of dogs, snarling and drooling; tearing through the highly stylised war-torn streets. This dramatized, surrealist scene we later find is actually a visual interpretation of a nightmare that Folman’s friend Boaz has connected to his experiences from the war in Lebanon. Typically a convention used in narrative film, Folman’s process removes us from the reality in the film because of its surrealist animated form and we become lost in the spectacle of animation. This allows the feature’s concepts to
Within the mind, we have thoughts and triggers that set our fears. Fear is the number one thing that can cause us from doing things in life. No matter what time frame we are in, on this planet, we learn that fear is worth controlling in life. One spectacular movie that inhibits fear and control so well in our human nature is The Village by M. Night Shyamalan. Mr. Shyamalan shows so much potential in this film with ourselves and the viewing of certain scenes that trigger the mind with control and fear. A few of the scenes in the movie inherit the cultural background with the late 1800’s time frame and sets a real tragedy throughout the film. In this motion picture, we learn certain things that fear some of us and have plot twist actions that make the movie so spectacular. As we approach the plot twists; fear, themes, and control for this video, it is a life lesson in most cases maybe for those who are in-love or just looking for a movie to open our minds.
While the Iran-Iraq War during the 1980's may have permanently altered the course of progress in Iran and Iraq, the war also altered the resulting permanent involvement of the rest of the world in the middle-east. The rich and complicated history in Iraq has established numerous cultural and ethnic traditions that all play a part in where the country is today. The Iran-Iraq War brought into focus some of those traditions and how they conflicted, while also bringing Iraq and its economic situation into the spotlight. Being on top of some of the most mineral rich soil in the world makes Iraq a major contributor to the world's economy through petroleum and crude oil exports. This, among other reasons, ties nations
Sadness, Joy, Fear, Disgust and Anger. Five emotions felt by human beings on a regular basis. These five emotions are personified as characters in the movie “Inside Out”. The movie Inside Out is about an 11-year-old girl named Riley who is living a happy life until she moves with her family to San Francisco (Rivera, Docter, del Carmen, 2015). Cognitive, social and linguistic development are all essential parts that contribute to the development of a growing child, such as Riley. The movie displays these types of development in terms of memories, emotions, attention, humor and many other aspects. The purpose of this paper will be to explain why the movie Inside Out (2015) is appropriate for children ages 6 to 12 years of age in terms of their cognitive, social and linguistic development.