Diplomatic art / What message can the Italian ambassador’s appreciation of “Leila Brothers” have?

Fars News Agency – Cinema Group: It was a day or two ago that the Italian ambassador in Tehran published an article on his personal page announcing the screening of the black and anti-cultural film “Leila Brothers” at the embassy in Rome with the presence of the film’s director Saeed Raushi.

First of all, it should be said that Giuseppe Peroni (the ambassador of Italy in Tehran) either does not have a correct understanding of the film “Laila’s Carriers” and its anti-cultural and black-faced layers, or he deliberately called a girl’s thumbs-up in the face of her old father as “a unique sacrifice of women” in praising this sarcastic film. has done.

This action and the look of Mr. Safir is the same look that gives awards like Oscar to films from Iran that are made with similar narratives of denigrating this border and landscape, and this is where we reach a common outcome; Trying to blow into the ashes of the fire that had brought people’s lives to a halt for months.

* What happened in the courtyard of the Rome embassy?

Giuseppe Peroni, the Italian ambassador in Tehran, published a post on Twitter about the screening of the Leila Brothers film in the courtyard of the Rome Embassy in Tehran, thanking those involved, and described the film as a film about “destruction and life”! In this post and in the explanation of the photo he shared, he writes: “I am very pleased that I hosted the screening of the movie “Leila Brothers” in the garden of the Italian residence in Tehran. An amazing film about life and destruction that shows the courage and unparalleled sacrifice of women. Special thanks to the director of the film, Saeed Raosti, and to his wonderful cast.”

The question that concerns the minds of the audience after hearing this news is, what are the embassies looking for? What is the purpose of these parties? Are there such things in the description of the duties of the embassy or ambassador? However, this is not the first time that unusual things have been seen in the performance of embassies, for example, the British ambassador was seen on Waliasr Street during the riots last year. And we will continue to try to reveal the hidden message behind such parties.

What are the duties of the embassy?

In the protocols related to the approach and performance of embassies, it is clear that the embassy has several major tasks: consulting and protecting the interests of the host country, consulting with its government about commercial, political, economic opportunities, etc., issuing visas and giving embassy time to applicants to travel to The host country mediates consultation and dialogue between the government of the host and guest countries, handling the affairs of applicants in immigration matters and, if deemed appropriate, granting short-term and long-term residence to people.

According to the above description, when a film has not received a license to be screened in the country in prestigious foreign festivals, it has not been able to get a lot of praise from the critics.

According to critics, one of the main problems of the film “Leila Brothers” is that the director speaks instead of all the characters. In movies, due to the presence of characters with different occupations, different voices should be heard, but because this film is more like a “political statement” than an “artwork”, we do not see the language related to different occupations, and we do not see the language associated with different occupations, and there is one voice as a whole. The film and the characters are overshadowed. It is an artificial voice, full of sarcasm and hatred.

* Single voice/ script tyranny

Undoubtedly, the vocabulary used by a taxi driver is different from that of a worker or teacher. Every person in any job has his own literature. We have seen this linguistic feature in various cinematographic works. But this feature is not present in the movie “Leila Brothers”, one of the brothers who is a guard of the bathroom of a mall, speaks with the same literature and vocabulary as his employee sister. And this speech is not much different from the speech of other characters. The reason for this is that the film is a “statement” or “article”. In fact, the work of art is a field of different voices, but “The Article/ Leila Brothers” is involved in a single voice. The monotony of the film is in clear contradiction with what the film claims to be. Film is inherently tyrannical, removing all voices in favor of the tyrannical voice of the “author”.

This is why “addressee” is passive in front of “Leila brothers”. That is, the film is directed in such a way that it does not give much room to the audience’s mentality, and the audience cannot have any other special impression of this pseudo-art because of the political slogans.

That’s why the whole movie is written based on Qasar’s sentences: “Nothing can be fixed by working, something must be done”. Or the saying: “A person will not find the way to happiness until his misfortune exceeds the limit” and that one: “Poverty takes people’s self-confidence and makes them look stupid.” Or the artificial and irrelevant sentences that the little brother, whose role in the whole movie is unclear, says to the hat-picker’s brother (Peyman Maadi): “Don’t call if you go. If you called, say everything is fine and…”

The film is arranged in such a way to represent issues such as women, workers, patriarchal thinking, etc., and in a more correct sense, it is focused on the decline of a family that does not have a significant relationship with the reality of society. In fact, the film is not realistic because it has no relationship with the objects of today’s society. One of the critics says: “There is no trace of an Iranian family in Laila brothers, and what has made this disorganized group a family is personal interests. “Social problems are raised in a biased manner, but the creator leaves them fruitless and sterile, as if there is no way out of the problems.”

The main discussion of this report is not the analysis of the film “Leila Brothers”, because history will judge it, a film that in recent months, because of its superficiality, every person in any situation has highlighted its symbols and talked about it.

The main question is why the ambassador of a country is holding a meeting for such a controversial film? An approach that both opens the fist of the curators of the movie “Leila Brothers” more than ever and also makes the open criticisms of the embassies’ performance meaningful over the years.

* Diplomatic art

According to experts, diplomatic art may be considered one of the main strategies and general policies adopted during the Cold War; The issue that was going on strongly during the 1940s to 1990s and affected the Eastern Bloc in a special way, and in this regard, the general intelligence and security services of the West in various artistic forms and covers and with their diplomatic image. He was active and changing his lifestyle and questioning the common ideals in the Eastern Bloc.

Now in Tehran, various parties and events are held in embassies every week. The news that reveals a corner of the investment dimensions of the embassies in the field of culture and art of the country.

The last word is that the holding of a meeting for the film “Leila Brothers” and the release of an official message about it by the Italian ambassador is the “rooster’s tail” which shows that the cultural interventions of embassies, the art of embassies, the attraction of people and the embassies’ networking in the service of cultural influence are not only a The illusion is not a conspiracy, but a reality that should be the focus of regulatory bodies more than ever.

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