Majid Majidi; what a fun name for a director. I’m about to watch my third movie by him and I still don’t know why or how I’d never heard about any of his famous pieces before. Every now and again I get the feeling that I’m living in a small, isolated place where telegrams are the only effective form of communication. The fact that I don’t read the national newspapers anymore, that I don’t own a Facebook account or that the last time I watched TV was in 2004 may contribute to this as well. But when a film is meant to be watched, it ends up reaching out to me somehow, and that’s what happened with ‘Baran’ a couple of nights ago. Once I heard it was a sign of good luck to baptize a ship with a girl’s name. I don’t know if this rule goes for every movie, but in this film it has been the case.
War’s side effects can’t be other than devastating. Exodus, poverty and exclusion are a constant we have always heard about and that we’ll keep on witnessing while humans don’t understand we all are equal. But while violence’s effects are predictable, human will may sometimes lead us to unexpected places and gender roles can magically be wiped out amidst these overwhelming circumstances. How would you take these words if you didn’t know that it was a girl who writes them? How aware are we of our diverse nature? What are the actual fundamental differences in terms of loving, enduring, surrendering, and fighting? How can struggling or caring be taken as a gender matter?
Hopefully ‘God Will Come’ and I will see if Mr. Majidi also satisfies me in this next film.
