Trust cinema Hasan Lotfi wrote in Etemad newspaper: On the same day that some people are watching films from the 18th Haqit Cinema Festival in Charsu Cinema Campus, I hurriedly cross a street to reach a shelter that is free from the autumn cold these days. The rush and long steps I take do not prevent an old woman in local clothes from standing in front of me and showing me a paper with a number written on it.
The woman goes straight to the point and demands that I give her the amount written on the paper so that she can buy medicine from a pharmacy 20 meters away. Seeing Toman next to the number is the first obstacle to answering his request. When I say that I don’t have this amount of money, he says, give me whatever you have! I doubt for a moment! To him, to his clothes and to his desire!
In my mind, I see him as an actor who is playing a role in the real world and is trying to deceive me with his good acting. Like politicians who distort the truth in the world of politics or hide their true selves behind false words and statements. don’t go far After the escape of Bashar al-Assad, a video was republished of him talking about a photo taken of a prisoner in Syria, when he denies that prison and tortures his opponents, he plays so well that when I get to a report about that prison and the words of the prisoners, I don’t know if Assad is telling the truth. Or those released from that prison!
The woman insists and is satisfied with taking a small amount. Without reaching into my pocket, I walk fast and go, but when I reach the pharmacy, I hesitate for a moment. The local dress of the woman, her age, her fixed face, her being a woman, her discomfort when I walk away from her, etc. are enough to strengthen this doubt. I enter the pharmacy and ask the young girl behind the counter about the medicines of a woman dressed in traditional clothes. I want to know how true it is and whether the drugs are vital or not!
The girl’s smile and the words she says make me believe that I can go home, sit by the stove and drink hot tea with a clear conscience. I do the same thing, but right when I’m sipping tea and some people in the Charso campus are watching movies that are supposed to be creative interpretations of reality, for a moment an old woman in her local dress comes in front of my eyes and someone inside me asks why that woman was standing there. ? In the cold that I and many others were running away from, and then the inner critic says that the documentary film is a creative but personal interpretation of reality!