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Two & Two (2011)
Director:
Babak Anvari
Writers:
Babak Anvari, Gavin Cullen
Stars:
Bijan Daneshmand, Ravi Karimi, Pouyan Lotfi
2011
What happens when everything you have been taught is proclaimed false and your whole universe of values crumbles violently before your eyes in an attempt to re-educate the masses? [1]
2+2=5, Two plus two equals five
Short film analyses
HalfCynic
Apr 2, 2014
Slideshare.net
Two and Two Two andTwo is an Iranian short film directed by Babak Anvari. Set in a classroom, it makes a statement about the “absurdness of dictatorships and tyranny – and the resilience of the human spirit”.[2]
Synopsis A teacher walks into a classroom full of male students wearing white shirts.[2]
The PA system comes on and the Headteacher announces that 2+2=5.[2]
The class begins to do maths, with the teacher telling the students to repeat “2+2=5” until one student, raises his hand, saying “But Sir, surely two plus two equals four?”[2]
to which the teacher replies “You have been told that two plus two equals five.You will not question this. [2]
Do you understand?” and the student sits down. Another student stands up and questions the teacher’s logic, refusing to believe the sum. [2]
He continues to say that two plus two equals four, asking other students how they don’t see it.[2]
After silencing the student, he briefly leaves the classroom.[2]
The teacher gets back and brings the three top students with him, all of which have a red band on their left arm.[2]
All three say that two plus two is four.The teacher tells the student walk up to the board and do the sum “correctly”.[2]
After a reluctant pause, the three top students raise their arms, as if brandishing rifles.[2]
The student writes 4 instead of 5, and then turns to face the three students who kill him.[2]
They carry the student out of the classroom and the teacher begins to write 2+2=5 on the board while telling the other students to write it down.[2]
One student writes 2+2=4 in his notebook. [2]
A THOUGHT PROVOKING
SHORT FILM
BY
BABAK ANVARI
Film: 2 + 2 = 5 / TWO PLUS TWO EQUALS FIVE
During a school lesson in Persia the pupils learn that two plus two equals five. No that the lie has been turned into a truth, it becomes a
crime to say otherwise.[3]
Epic theatre or a simple fable -- the short scene in the classroom tells us about the mechanisms of dictatorship and tyranny. Babak Anvari tackles a very heavy subject with a distinguished light touch. --Oldenburg Film Festival.[3]
Chycho.com
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
The degree of indoctrination that we are exposed to varies depending on the intensity of the totalitarian nature of the state. All centralized institutions indoctrinate. All centralized powers lack transparency. All centralized information is incontestable. [4]
For example, after centuries of committing crimes against humanity and overseeing genocides across the globe, it was only just recently that it was officially recognized that the catholic church has been, for decades, systematically sexually abusing children:
“The Roman Catholic Church has ‘systematically’ protected predator priests, allowing ‘tens of thousands’ of children to be abused, a United Nations committee said Wednesday in a scathing report that cast the first shadow over Pope Francis’ honeymoon period as pontiff.” [4]
Anyone who has even remotely done any research on this topic, or has been the unfortunate victim of such horrendous crimes would tell you that they did not need a UN report to tell them the truth, but that is the nature of centralized institutions. [4]
Only when they are on the verge of collapse do we officially recognize their crimes. [4]
Source:
Two plus Two Does Not Equal Five
King of the Hearts (1968)
Soltan ghalbha (سلطان قلبها)
Director:
Mohamad Ali Fardin
Stars:
Aref Arefkia, Ahdieh Badiee
Mohamad Ali Fardin
فردین , آذر شیوا و لیلا فروهر
سلطان قلبها در سال 1347 با شرکت و کارگردانی روانشاد فردین ساخته شد
1968
A little girl with a blind mother, accidentally becomes friends with a famous and rich singer who decides to help her in her life.[5]
This is a 27.5" x 13" Iranian poster designed by Ahang to promote the 1969 127-minute Mohamad Ali Fardin black-and-white film King of Hearts [سلطان قلبها soltan-e qalb'ha] starring Fardin based on a screenplay written by Fardin with cinematography by Ghodratallah Ehsani. [6]
Fardin was Iran's most popular actor and the title of this famous musical became his nickname.[6]
The film was produced by the Maysaghieh Studio.[6]
فیلم کامل سلطان قلبها
با شرکت فردین , آذر شیوا و لیلا فروهر
Plot summary:
After being in an accident in which each thought the other had been killed, a young married couple named Setareh [Azar Shiva] and Saeed [Fardin] lived separately for years. [6]
Saeed became a famous singer and the woman lost her eyesight in an accident. [6]
Years later Saeed happened to meet a little girl named Khorshid [Leila Forouhar] without knowing she was his daughter; with financial help from his wealthy fiancee, Saeed paid the expenses of an English doctor to come to Iran and treat the girl's mother, without knowing she was his missing wife. On the wedding night his wife and child appeared to thank him. [6]
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Aref - Soltane Ghalbha
- The king of Hearts - English
- The king of Hearts - English
In this way the old couple found each other again after a long time and began a new life together.[6]
Not told is the story of the heartbreak and disappointment of the wealthy woman who had been counting on a marriage to Saeed and who paid for the recovery of the blind woman he actually married. [6]
Mohammad-Ali Fardin
Iranian Film Star
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
APRIL 11, 2000
More than 20,000 mourners gathered here on Sunday to bid farewell to Mohammad-Ali Fardin, a pre-revolutionary film star and world-class wrestler who died on Thursday at age 70.[7]
The cause appeared to be a heart attack.[7]
Many celebrities, including former film stars, came to Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery in southern Tehran to honor Mr. Fardin, mourned as the ''King of Hearts,'' the title of one of his best-known films.[7]
The funeral procession, which began from the Iranian Wrestling Federation building, brought traffic in central Tehran to a virtual halt as mourners followed the coffin through the streets.
فردین با وحیده
در فیلم ایرانی به نام همای سعادت
Fardin with Vahide Iranian film
Homa happiness HD
Many young people climbed trees to get a better view of the proceedings at the special burial plot reserved for artists in the cemetery.[7]
''I have seen contraband videos of his movies; I liked him very much,'' said a 17-year-old high school student. ''My mother and I came today to let his family know that we share in their loss.''[7]
A native of Tehran, Mr. Fardin won the silver medal at the 1952 world freestyle wrestling championships in Tokyo.[7]
Subha-O-Sham(1972)
Mohammad Ali Fardin*
Tehran, Iran*
Chodh Merah Haath Mujhe Peene Deh
He began his acting career in 1960 with ''Fountain of Youth'' and is best remembered for the starring role in ''King of Hearts.''[7]
After the Islamic revolution in 1979, which brought a fundamentalist religious government to power, he was allowed to act in only one film, ''The Damned.'' In recent years he ran a bakery in northern Tehran.
Mourners gathered outside his shop on Saturday to light candles, leave flowers and offer condolences.[7]
While his death was virtually ignored by the state radio and television, it was carried on the front pages of Tehran's reformist newspapers.[7]
در فیلم ایرانی به نام همای سعادت
Fardin with Vahide Iranian film
Homa happiness HD
Mohammad Ali Fardin*
Tehran, Iran*
Chodh Merah Haath Mujhe Peene Deh
Mohammad Ali Fardin 1 محمد على فردين
JAMILEH
Jamileh is the most famous Iranian dancer
who performed in many Iranian movies prior to 1979
Belly-Dance ( raqs-e arabi
Jamileh was the first professional Persian dancer I had ever seen, and I was charmed. She combined supple and subtle movements with great strength and flexibility, and had the most gorgeous hair![8]
Persian Music-iran_
علی نظری و جمیله-farsi-parsi.wmv
علی نظری و جمیله-farsi-parsi.wmv
Jamileh is the most famous Iranian dancer who performed in many Iranian movies prior to 1979 Iranian revolution. She was an iconic figure in that era. Retired and living in Los Angeles, many Iranian still are fascinated by her dance skills. This DVD is the only DVD that shows Jamileh's Persian and belly dance performance.[9]
Jamileh & Her Daughter Dancing
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Jamileh
- Arabic Belly Dance 2
| جمیله - رقص عربی
- Arabic Belly Dance 2
| جمیله - رقص عربی
The Book of
Dede Gorgud
Seyfaddin Rzasoy
March - April 2010
“The Book of Dede Gorgud” (Kitabi-Dada Qorqud) is a heroic epic poem of the Oghuz – a Turkic tribal group who were the ancestors of the Azerbaijanis, Turks, Turkmens and the Gagauz.[10]
In terms of its historical and cultural significance, this saga is a grand testament to the culture of the Turkic world of ancient and medieval times. [10]
This majestic epic, exuberant in its love for humanity and its environment is comparable to the world’s early epic poems: “Gilgamesh” (Bilgamesh), “The Mahabharata”, “The Iliad”, “The Nart Sagas” and others.[10]
“The Book of Dede Gorgud”, is distinguished among Turkic epic poems like “Koroglu”, “Alpamysh” and “Ural Batyr.... for its antiquity and the information it carries about the culture of the Oghuz.[10]
Dede Korkut Ata
The first manuscript of “The Book of Dede Gorgud”, dated to the 16th century and consisting of 12 stories (songs), was found in a Dresden library by German orientalist H.F. von Diez, who published a translation in 1815 of the “Tapagoz” (Goggle-eye) episode, which has similarities with the Greek Polyphemus (Cyclops). [10]
Later, the Italian orientalist E. Rossi found another copy of the saga in the Vatican’s library; this was also dated to the 16th century and had six stories-cum-songs. [10]
Both copies are written in the Oghuz Turkic language, in Arabic script. The epic, found at the beginning of the 19th century, soon attracted attention from the world’s scholars.[10]
It has been translated into Russian, German, English, Persian, Georgian, Latvian, Serb, Hungarian and other languages (for English-speaking readers it is still possible to find Geoff rey Lewis’s translation, called ‘The Book of Dede Korkut’ – ed.)[10]
Nowadays, international scientific meetings are frequently held in Azerbaijan, the saga’s historical homeland, dedicated to a comparative typology of “The Book of Dede Gorgud” with other of the world’s epic poems. [10]
The continuing interest of readers and researchers in the “Book” lies in its artistic content and broad humanity. [10]
Every ethnic epic poem is an embodiment of the life of the social group that created it and which keeps its fi re burning. [10]
The whole moral and physical experience of the group becomes an ethnic memory expressed in epic poetry. [10]
But the significance of the “The Book of Dede Gorgud” does not depend solely on its being an ethnic poem – the epic saga of the Oghuz.[10]
It stems from the fact that it contributes to the history of human ecology on the Eurasian continent.[10]
From this point of view, the book is actually a lasting monument to the cultural history of the peoples of the continent, in the shape of the Oghuz. [10]
The epic memory experience of “The Book of Dede Gorgud” covers the Scythian-Saka, Hun- Oghuz, and Oghuz-Seljuk epochs of Eurasian history.
The Oghuz Turks were born on the horse and directed the energy they received from nature and God into cultural development.[10]
They left an eternal cultural bridge between Asia and Europe – between West and East - in this, their national saga, the “Dada Qorqud” Oghuznama (“The Book of Dede Gorgud”) which they carried from the west to the east and from the east to the west.[10]
The book is a monument that the Oghuz Turks, who viewed their layman’s lives as sacred building missions from God, “lived”, “built” and “wrote” in Eurasian space.[10]
Dədə Qorqud:
Heroic Destan of Ancient Oghuz Türks
- دده قورقود
- (Film, 1975)
Heroic Destan of Ancient Oghuz Türks
- دده قورقود
- (Film, 1975)
