During 1977 and
1979 the era of modern Iran history prevailed. These were the years of the revolution
that brought fundamental religious and political leaders. During that time
millions of Iran citizens were under the Islamic republic; however, Iran’s
revolution was questionable to Kiarostami. He had unorthodox way of expressing
current issues. By the 1980’s the
Iranian government became a large threat to the United States’ national security.
Late the same year, Kiarostami released one
of his greatest works “Where is the
Friend’s House”. Kiarostami used
children as his primary depiction to study the Iranian revolution. One of the major
problems with the Iranian government was that there was a duality and question
of power between the main religious leader and the political leader which made
the country unstable. Kiarostami used his films to portray the reality of his
people which could also represent the rest of the world. “Close
Up” is one
of my favorite films directed by Abbas Kiarostami; this film tells the story of the real-life trial of
a man who pretended to be film-maker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, fooling a family into
believing that they would star in his new film. The film features the people involved,
acting as themselves. It is a film about human identity that helped to increase
recognition of Kiarostami in the west.
Abbas Kiarostami
Kiarostami
is one of the most influential Iranian filmmakers. During the period of war
between Iran and Iraq, his cinema
introduced a civilized and artistic face. Despite the problem Iran had been
enduring, Kiarostami never left the country while others did. Even though
Kiarostami made several award winning films early in his career, it was after
the Iranian Revolution that he earned a highly valued reputation on the stage
of world cinema. He has a unique style but plain poetic and philosophical print.
His filmmaking tears the curtain from conventional narrative and documentary
filmmaking. Kiarostami defied the audience’s role. In his films he encourages
the audience to give feedback. In some
of Kiarostami’s films there are parts that are missing or not given to the
viewers. As a result, the viewers have to make up that reason like in the “Taste of Cherry”, “Life and Nothing More”.., and “The
Wind will Carry Us”. In his mind, the untold or unexplained parts of his
films are created to test his audience comprehension. During his film he
doesn’t stay exclude from the screen. He put himself and his crew as part of his
creation on the screen. “Close-Up” contains many clue elements of Kiarostami’s
cinema. The main character is an innocent but corrupt man; behind the scenes
and within the frame, Kiarostami interviewed the man in prison that pretended
to be famous filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf. In “Homework” he also interviews the
children and in “Case No. 1 and Case No2”. His way of creating films paved the way for the next generation of
filmmakers.
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