cinema trust Abdul Javad Mousavi wrote: “Am I alive?” Is this cinema alive? Who will answer these deaths? Is cinema what it is? Men dancing instead of women? ». These are Masoud Kimiaei’s words. Words on the pretext of his friend Dariush Mehrjoui’s first birthday. A friend who was slaughtered last year along with Vahida Mohammadi Far, and the status of his case is still unclear.
Even though Kimiaei’s words were expressed on the pretext of murdering his friend and his friend’s wife, they are more bitter than an ordinary obituary. It is also a great loss because the loss of Dariush Mehrjoui is bitter and sad, leading to Kimiai’s words, you can watch his movies whenever you miss Mehrjoui, but what can be done for the culture and art that is being slaughtered in front of all of us? Please don’t listen to these words with the ears of politics. I don’t mean that Raisi’s government brought cinema to this state and that Khazai is solely to blame for all the disasters that have befallen cinema. The tragedy is deeper than these words. If we were only talking about the policies of a government, we could say that the era of that government is over and now is the time to save culture and art, but if you look carefully, the story started from a different place. Since the dwarves relied on the post of cultural management. Why go far at all? Right from when the dwarves took over. From that day everything started to decline. In the words of Forough Farrokhzad: In the land of the short/measurement criteria/ they have always traveled on zero orbit. We have lowered our expectations of everything and everyone for years. It has nothing to do with cinema.
According to Khabar Online, today’s human life is a connected matter. You can’t be a failure in economics, but be the first in ethics. You cannot be lax and weak in morals, but be the best in sports. There may be exceptions, but in general, everything is related to everything. Just today, I was watching a selection of the game between Iran and Germany in the World Cup. It was written under the video what game we played and what we expected from our national team. Officially, we thought we could beat Germany, but today we are looking for a draw against some second-tier Asian team. Well, when I thought about it, I saw that in those years and days, not only the height of our football players, but also the height of our politicians, cinematographers, poets and writers were taller. We had more respectable publications. We had a better TV. More serious critics. It is true that the world is no longer that old world, and in other parts of the world, the standards of measurement travel on the zero orbit, and the work has fallen into the hands of clowns like Trump and Biden, and this last clown can’t even record the power of the mask, and neither can Hollywood cinema anymore. It doesn’t have the glory of its past and… God bless you, but since we are considered the third world or one of the underdeveloped countries, our sufferings are even more pathetic.
That is, in culture, we are reaching a point where, after almost half a century of the revolution that we call cultural, all the pride of our managers and valuable press is the high sales of films that are considered the second edition of Abgoshti Persian films. Only with the difference that according to Masoud Kimiaei: in this cinema, men dance instead of women! And a hundred blessings to Farsi film, which in its most learned form was at least a promoter of morals, virtue, and arrogance, and even some of its actors were famous for their chivalry, dignity, and greatness. If the cinema of a country is supposed to be a representation of that geography, someone tell me, which country is this cinema where men dance instead of women and talk without salt and women flirt with camels and sell ghamze? An ancient land with a history of thousands of years? Or a revolutionary country with religious values? Let’s put one of these movies next to the most famous Persian movies of that time. For example, next to Ganj Qaroun or the alley of men. Which one is really nobler? And if someone is going to judge us based on these movies, what will he say about us? Will he say that they were chickens and have become eggs this year, or will he say that they were able to start a cultural revolution and bring themselves from singing and singing to a dignified cinema? In fact, I read these prayers to say that we really do not have a good situation. We can continue to shout slogans and be happy warriors, but this way we are going will undoubtedly lead to Turkestan. And didn’t he take it off? We have been joking about everything for a long time. And more than anything with culture. The fact that Ayatollah Taleghani’s books are falling off the sidewalk or the paintings in the museums of this country are being looted means that we have officially handed over the flock to thieves. It is not the thief with a lamp who only takes stolen goods, but the thieves who came with a spotlight. With full equipment. with spotlights, bulldozers, jackhammers, dynamite, and chainsaws. With a cunning weapon, which is the most winning weapon in our time. And they have not just come to steal. They have come to Ilghar. And what do you know what Ilghar is?