Ten (2002)
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Directed by: Abbas Kiarostami
My Rate: 5/5
It's seems a familiar film to me, because the situations are very familiar for every urban Persian. It's filmed in just one single location: In a car. The driver is called Mania, an educated (maybe an artist) woman, divorced and re-married, she has a son , called Amin, who lives with his own father. She is allowed to pick him up from his father's and have him for one night from time to time. Amin does not accept his step-father.
It's in 10 episodes and in each, Mania has picked some woman up in her car and they struggle about relationship issues and the relationship crisis in today Iran. Mania tries to be free, to be not dependent to anybody, not to obey anybody, that's why she divorced from her autocrat ex-husband.
The spectrum of people is different from and old woman who pilgrims a holy place 3 times a day (a symbol of the old religious people in Iran) to a street girl who thinks that Mania is a man and jumped in her car (a symbol of today lost, dizzy and futureless youth).
The discussions are very interesting. They show how people manage themselves to be dependent to something or somebody. How different the generations are in today Iran and how lost we Persians are. "And finally we are dependent to our own creatures. Dependent to our children, to our religion, to our philosophies"*.
IMDB
Directed by: Abbas Kiarostami
My Rate: 5/5
It's seems a familiar film to me, because the situations are very familiar for every urban Persian. It's filmed in just one single location: In a car. The driver is called Mania, an educated (maybe an artist) woman, divorced and re-married, she has a son , called Amin, who lives with his own father. She is allowed to pick him up from his father's and have him for one night from time to time. Amin does not accept his step-father.
It's in 10 episodes and in each, Mania has picked some woman up in her car and they struggle about relationship issues and the relationship crisis in today Iran. Mania tries to be free, to be not dependent to anybody, not to obey anybody, that's why she divorced from her autocrat ex-husband.
The spectrum of people is different from and old woman who pilgrims a holy place 3 times a day (a symbol of the old religious people in Iran) to a street girl who thinks that Mania is a man and jumped in her car (a symbol of today lost, dizzy and futureless youth).
The discussions are very interesting. They show how people manage themselves to be dependent to something or somebody. How different the generations are in today Iran and how lost we Persians are. "And finally we are dependent to our own creatures. Dependent to our children, to our religion, to our philosophies"*.
* This quote is taken from a book called Souvashoun (a Persian theatrical piece showing the tragic death of Siavash, a Persian ancient hero whose story is told in Shahnameh) written by Simin Daneshvar.
2 comments:
I'm glad you finally got to see this movie, if you remember, I wrote about it in an email. Could you read again what I wrote, and reply to it? or give me at least some guidelines to it!
The woman was a photographer.
Btw, I saw 'Baran' yesterday. I'll write some review in an email for you, or if it's a good review, I'll maybe publish it here.
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