Iranian of the Day

tashakor

salam
bareye man kheili jaleb bood ke filmamo too in site didam,va az hame jaleb tar commente partygirl bood ke be hagh dorost tarin chizi bood ke ta be hal raje be filmam shenide boodam,be ishun tabrik migam be khatere tiz binishoon

To Abarmard aziz

Ok Abarmard, Party girl tried to explain the meaning of this piece to couple of visitors here and graciously explained her point of view, what would be yours? You seem got it too. Please share.

Powerful

What an amazing and brilliant piece of work. Really powerful message.

Thank you PG

Oohh

Deep, thanks.

Chadors like totally suck!

Art

Dear Anonymousss and Toofan The Always Great To Me:

With utmost humility, I offer my own impressions of this piece.  I hope you would in no way think that I think I am particularly smart or artistic, or that I am showing off.  Truth be told, I watched this piece three times before developing my thoughts.  Certainly, everyone is entitled to review a piece of art and to develop his or her own impressions and messages from it.  When I watched this short film, I was surprised and moved by its message, though the title itself could have been sufficiently telling.

The dancer, who is a young man, looks bewildered.  His quick steps, contortions, and obvious struggle with something invisible, in addition to the clip title all tell me this young man is putting himself in his mother's place under that chador.  He is fighting demons and aggressors.  He is struggling and fighting.  He becomes breathless and stops with the fatigue of his struggles and at this point the mother fixes the chador on her head and goes on. 

The artist is telling us that under that chador there is so much pressure that if it were him, he would be left exhausted and breathless dealing with it, but his mother is strong, she would go on.

I find this piece remarkable in that it is made by a (young?) Iranian man in Iran, dealing with his thoughts on the issue of mandatory hejab.  I find the message extremely courageous in that this man has so much respect for his mother's (i.e. all Iranian women's) struggles.

Did I make any sense to you?  Again, I should apologize to the artist if his message has completely gone over my head.  I only offered my own take on what I saw. Perhaps you would consider watching it again now to see if you can see what I saw, too.

Hahaha

What in holy Gods name was that??? Just had one of those wtf moments..

What?

What was the message?