Bahman Kiarostami’s explanation about “Leech” / Someone came who dared my father to leave us

Theater News Base: Bahman Kiarostami, the son of Abbas Kiarostami, has been making headlines for a few days with the release of the short documentary “Leech”, and there have been many reactions to this film, especially criticism of Abbas Kiarostami.

Now, considering the reflections that this film has had in cyberspace, Bahman Kiarostami has explained about this video by publishing a text.

The text published by Bahman Kiarostami is as follows:

First: Leech was made in 1981 with the same head and shape and at the same time had limited performances. Second: I was a student of the educational system, which was called the old system. In other words, in the first year of high school, we had four choices to continue our education: mathematics / physics, experimental sciences, humanities or vocational school.

The general belief was that the conservatory was a place for lazy children and that experimental science was the prelude to studying medicine. That is why the humanities and mathematics / physics remained. Unfortunately, my older brother, who was much smarter and more educated than me, had studied mathematics / physics before me and then was accepted to Sharif University of Technology with an excellent grade in the entrance exam.

Another misfortune is that I had a friend named Hoshyar Khayyam. (The son of a man who criticizes the educational system in the homework film.) Hoshyar and I were high school classmates and went to piano and calligraphy classes together. His mathematical alertness was excellent, he became a first-rate pianist and composer, and his handwriting was speechless. I used to break records and I was (and am) awful at playing and writing, but the Qur’an, religion, Persian and my language were not bad.

I was urged to change my major and go to the humanities, and my father denied that I was anything less than Ahmed and Hoshyar. Two years later, Hoshyar won the first place in the art entrance exam, and I left school and went to the sacred service of the army. Third: Before high school, our house had a party for a few years that, like Pasolini’s theorem, no one was the same as before. When he came, he would not ask the questions that everyone was asking and he would not say: Baby, how many classes are there, right, which school are you going to and these; That means you do not ask questions at all. He would come up with strange things and sometimes start fights and leave.

She had an enchanting beauty and her opinions were different from everyone else, she also said things about lessons and exercises that I did not understand, but thirty years later, when I went to her and heard the same things again, I saw that she had an impact on the residents of our house. The butterfly gave me the courage to abandon the old and new system and pursue what I love.

I think he also encouraged my father to let go of his children when he saw that they were not studying and let them do what they love and support them. (Ahmad also dropped out of Sharif University and started a successful computer company.) Parvaneh himself had a son of our age who was a thorn in our side for many years. . »