Fajr Film Festival Sima’s unfinished narrative; Culture industry, celebrity and the eternal rich-poor figure

Fars News Agency – Department of Art and Media: From what position do you narrate social problems? This question will determine the way of formulating a discourse and dealing with the issue of social harms in many works of so-called social cinema in our country. “Sima’s Unfinished Narrative” directed by Alireza Samadi and produced by Majid Reza Bala, although it narrates around themes such as the culture industry, the culture of fame and celebrity, and with the basis of placing the issue of lost reputation and dignity of people in a space as wide as social networks He turns and looks at the sadness of the poor people in the south of the city, but his camera stands on the front of stability and prosperity and the distribution of rent and narrates the story from that side.

From the technical point of view, it is difficult to accept it in the category of cinematographic works, and the quality of its production is more similar to a telefilm. If a director were to consciously stand on the side of the existing evils and evils of a society and show off from the standpoint of stability, the hereditary stabilization of class inferiority, he would follow the path followed in “Sima’s Unfinished Narrative”, but in our optimistic judgment, the director The work and its sponsor (Farabi Cinema Foundation) must have made such a mistake unknowingly.

The story is that in the daily flow of social relations, an opportunistic university professor (Hamid Kamili) who, with the efforts and support of the charismatic figure (Mehran Ahmadi) of the story – who is shown as a rent-dependent capitalist – is a virtual celebrity. Instagram has also been placed in front of the evil and destructive element of society – represented by its inferior brothers and sisters. Although the audience of Iranian cinema is interested in the works that narrate the bio-social story of people and likes the story-telling cinema, but the language of the film is weak in expressing its subject and social problems, and basically, drama does not take shape until the end of the story “Sima’s Unfinished Narrative”.

At the moment of the film, the camera moves the narrative from the position of stability and in the service of the evil front contaminated by rent and economic corruption, against the people around the stable situation. A university professor who, by resorting to a series of pseudo-intellectual delusions, has superficial concerns of the metropolitan middle class, and rather than being considered an academic figure, he is seen as an Instagram celebrity and a lifestyle promoter imbued with the psychology of success and false superstitions. .

Regarding the characters of the film, except for the central role of the story played by Hamed Kamili, none of them have the right payment and it is difficult for the audience to believe them. The ending of the film, in a rhetorical atmosphere, in the service of economic corruptors and out of proportion with social reality, makes the low quality of the production of this work even more clear to the audience, although it contains themes that, if properly paid, could be an intelligent work and logic with reality. Show the existing one to the audience. In the end, one should ask what is the purpose of Farabi Cinema Foundation in supporting or investing in the production of such works and according to what criteria works of such a level reach the cinema screen?

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