Trust cinema Amirreza Mafi, writer, radio and television program host, researcher and writer, reminded some points about the audience’s reception of anti-hero characters.
Quoting from Mehr, you can read the important parts of these talks below:
The point is that the middle class is weakening everywhere in the world. A look at the series “Penguin”, “Day of the Jackal” and the movie “Joker” will make you wonder why anti-heroes have become popular in the world? Why is anarchism so popular? In today’s works, a kind of revolt and rebellion is observed, which is liked. Why is the main character of “Efai Tehran” popular? We see the serial killer who has no justification for murder under any circumstances become popular. Or why are negative people the main characters in the “Loser” series that was recently released?
I don’t want to say that there is a media stream behind the story and to look delusional, but why do violent and rebellious faces become popular and positive heroes are no longer heroes?
We made a movie called “Asman Gharb” about Martyr Shiroudi, but the character was not very popular. Teenagers like it, but some adults, even Hezbollah and religious people, didn’t like this movie and said that it had too many slogans, and that was interesting. It shows that we are in a deep and endless divide that we are fueling every day. No matter how much the intellectuals of the people usually shout that a society with such a deep gap should be bridged, that is, the intellectuals of the people should come and bring people from both ends of the spectrum closer to the middle. But some people make a noise and their ears do not pay attention.
When the father became weak, many mistakes happened. The wave of breaking the position of the father started with series like “Padersalar”, the goal was to sanctify the mother, but we didn’t know how to do it, if we check all the series, all the bad events are caused by the father. The father had an addiction or had a problem, and in this way we have reduced the father’s position.
I have seen almost no foreign day series where the family is neglected. Heroes always sacrifice everything for their family. Even badmen treat their families well. But here we show the bad and treacherous family easily.