A look at the movie “Anti” / a worrying work and of course with special mistakes in the genre of strategic cinema

The film “Anti” is the second film made by “Amir Abbas Rabiee” who has responded to one of the needs of the society to the extent of his wealth by using the subject of the assassinations of the summer of 1981. The need to explain history, which has always been neglected by the film industry, and now this film tries to take steps to meet this need and recount an important historical issue such as the crimes of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization, and that is all. Which causes the film “Anti” to be considered as a commendable work in the current state of cinema and especially in the process of the “40th Fajr Film Festival”.

The film “Anti” focuses on portraying the face of Saeed, played by Mehdi Nosrati, who lost his hope and desire for life after the migration of his girlfriend Bita, and became a member of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization. Active converter built. A figure who is now a member of the “Islamic Republic Party” to carry out his mission in the organization and goes so far as to be promoted to the highest levels of the party security after two years. One day, he was injured during a “Banisadr” rally at the University of Tehran during an organizational mission under the guise of his Hezbollah. Resumes. But during these relationships, “Bita” notices fundamental changes in “Saeed”. While trying to gain Bita’s confidence, he spares no effort to “prove the goodwill of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization”. Until the organization orders the “assassination of Martyr Beheshti” …

The film “Anti” has weaknesses both in terms of cinematic form and in terms of the content shown; However, he did his best to appear as a disturbing work. The work that records the case of a terrorist crime on the screen, the causes of which are still unclear. Such a great crime against the Iranian nation that even the terrorists of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization are reluctant to accept responsibility for it and have not claimed responsibility for the bombing of the Islamic Republic Party and the assassination of Shahid Beheshti and his associates.

The film “Anti” is a cinematic document of a great crime against the Iranian nation and is therefore considered a respected and worrying work. A work that tries to portray the terrorist nature of the “People’s Mojahedin Organization” and reveal the dimensions of the crimes of this anti-People’s group to its cinematic audience. A work that focuses on the key word “influence” and its strong presence in the structures of the “sovereignty of the Islamic Republic” and its imagery, and it is this focus that makes this work enjoy a respectable honor in the “strategic cinema genre”. . However, it should be noted that the lack of screenplay and wrong structure in the arrangement of characters and especially the narrative angle of this work are among the weaknesses that can not be ignored in the movie “Anti”.

Certainly, the biggest mistake of the movie “Anti” is in terms of narration and associating its audience with the hypocritical character of “Saeed”. A character with a positive and revolutionary face who, due to his type of make-up, bears a special resemblance to “Martyr Abdul Hamid Dialmeh” and the audience accompanies him from the beginning of the story and is particularly influenced by him that basically accepts his ugliness as a member. Dedication to the “People’s Mojahedin Organization” causes problems. However, the first principle in the narration of a cinematic work is that the audience identifies with the first character in the narrative of a film and sees himself in his place. This special resemblance that strikes at the nature of the “anti” movie and causes the audience to hate not only the hypocritical and filthy character of “Saeed”; Rather, it reduces the effectiveness of the film in making the audience hate the terrorist cult of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization, and in a way, it makes it Alken.

A clear example of the lack of intelligence and maturity of the movie “Anti” in illustration should be considered in the sequence of “Shahid Beheshti” entering the office of the “Islamic Republic Party”. The sequence, which can be presented as a clip on the anniversary of the martyrdom of this great martyr, is so fascinating that the audience has no bad feelings about the presence of a hypocrite who has witnessed his crimes and betrayal of the system and the “Islamic Republic Party”. It does not find and thus does not convey a proper emotional load to its audience.

In general, it should be noted that one of the most important tasks of works such as the film “Anti” is to expose the ideological and intellectual nature of the “Mojahedin Khalq Organization” and show how this terrorist group has recruited and How he made them his subjects. An explanatory action that unfortunately we do not see in this film and in the meantime the filmmaker has only a few symbolic scenes and for example by showing the farm and Saeed’s meetings with his commander in a farm and the group’s women in a leather and shoemaking workshop And … wants to make the audience aware of the irrationality of the performance and devotion of the members of this organization.

Author: Mohammad Reza Mahdavipour

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