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{\an6}Adapted from the book by
AZAR NAFISI
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READ LOLITA IN TEHRAN
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A literary memoir
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At the beginning of the Islamic revolution
in 1979,
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many Iranians have returned
in their country, full of expectations.
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Despite the warning signs.
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Azar Nafisi was among them.
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Let me in! Please!
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They lied to us.
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They lied to us!
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Let me in!
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Hello,
here is your captain.
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We will land soon
at Tehran airport.
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The local temperature reaches 28°C.
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On arrival, please disembark
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following the instructions
of the crew.
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It was a pleasure
to have you on board
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and I remind you that
the importation of alcohol is prohibited.
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Welcome to Iran.
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1979
TEHRAN
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{\an6}Entry August 3, 1979
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- Thank you.
- Following !
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I did my doctorate there.
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In literature.
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English literature.
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- What is this ?
- A novel.
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It's for a course
at university.
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I'm going to teach.
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This is why we come back,
my husband and I.
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He is a civil engineer.
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Please be careful.
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Pardon ?
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Go for it.
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My heart, my love,
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my life.
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I love you so much.
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Mom !
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You are so beautiful.
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Bijan...
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Hello...
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Kiss each other!
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Welcome !
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Here we go ?
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PART I
THE GREAT GATSBY
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TO DEATH AMERICA
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Professor Nafisi...
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Mr Bahri.
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Good morning.
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How is your English?
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Good !
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Know that I really appreciate
your lessons.
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Glad to hear you say that.
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I'm not the only one,
they also approve of your methods.
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"They" ?
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Yes.
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In fact, when the class
saw all these books to read,
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some wanted to boycott you,
but I dissuaded them.
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Thank you, I appreciate it.
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I was just wondering if you could
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introduce a certain... morality...
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Suitable authors?
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Exactly.
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I'll have to think about it.
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I prepared a list.
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I'm sure of it.
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Mr. Bahri, you wrote
one of the best homework
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on Huckleberry Finn
that was never returned to me.
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Even from my students in America.
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Really ?
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Yes. Very impactful, very sensitive.
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Well done, I'm impressed.
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Sit down, class will begin.
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Yes of course.
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THANKS !
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"Without this mist we would see
your house across the bay,"
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Gatsby said.
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"There's a green light burning
all night at the end of your pier."
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He seemed absorbed
by what he had just said.
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Perhaps the idea had come to him
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that the colossal importance
of this light
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had just vanished forever.
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Does this green light symbolize
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Gatsby's undying love
for Daisy?
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Even though she is now
a married woman?
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Professor, sorry but...
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how can you say
that he is in love with her?
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It is obvious
that he only likes greenbacks.
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Daisy is just a symbol,
nothing more.
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Mr. Farzan, in English, please.
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And no,
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she is Daisy.
She is not a symbol.
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And Gatsby loves him.
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Who shows me the passages
who prove it?
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Love is not of this world.
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We believe in divine, sacred love,
and that's it.
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So why make the revolution?
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In English please.
For the thousandth time.
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I know this bothers some people,
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but the great books
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are supposed to make you uncomfortable,
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push you to question yourself
on your achievements.
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I don't quite understand.
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We should doubt
of the prohibition of adultery?
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Change is necessarily bad?
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This kind of books
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can be a crime against the truth.
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So the book itself
is a criminal...
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Don't laugh.
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If laws are broken
when writing a story,
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sanctions are needed.
What's so funny about that?
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Please tone down.
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He's not talking about you.
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- It's not against you.
- I hope so.
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I don't understand.
What do you want to do?
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A book trial?
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Good idea.
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Why not ?
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We have everyone,
except our accused,
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The Great Gatsby.
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Who will represent him?
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Someone ?
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Nobody wants to be the book.
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You should be the book,
Professor Nafisi.
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If there are no objections,
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I will.
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I will be Gatsby.
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The court calls
The Great Gatsby at the helm.
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Mahtab, the floor is yours.
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Would you say that you are not aiming
the defense of the wealthy classes?
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That's correct.
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Why describe people
like you do?
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I have neither to condemn
nor to defend.
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Objection!
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Some things should be ignored!
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Hide problems and pain
means denying their existence.
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But they persist.
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This novel is about
of the death of dreams.
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Of a lost love.
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There is not a single virtuous woman
in this book.
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We don't read it
to know if adultery
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is good or bad.
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And it's supposed to be a model
for our innocent sisters.
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You don't think
than to make us wear the veil.
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Try!
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Is this a problem?
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I don't want to talk about my outfits.
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What you want is irrelevant,
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wearing the veil
will soon be mandatory.
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Why only Nyazi
talk about morality?
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By what right!
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Listen...
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I don't need to read the newspaper.
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It's not worth it.
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I have enough evidence.
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Every page of this novel
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illustrates the way
by which we were raped
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by the Great Satan.
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“They seek to deceive Allah.
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Those who believe in Him.
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They only deceive themselves,
without even realizing it.”
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The only interesting character in the book,
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it is the weak and dejected husband,
Mr. Wilson,
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who killed Gatsby.
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Again the hand of God.
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Not everything is God’s work!
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Do you believe He interferes
constantly in your lives?
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How can you
use such a word?
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"Interfere" ?
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God does not interfere.
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He watches us.
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This book should be banned.
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You changed the laws!
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- Step back.
- No way!
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- Your brain is corrupt!
- Corrupt?
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- Exact !
- Aren't you ashamed?
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They want to close the faculty! Come!
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Let's go.
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Freedom is a right!
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Neither the East nor the West,
Islamist University!
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Samad is our teacher!
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His way is ours!
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Freedom is our right!
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Did you see this?
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Nassrin!
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Mahtab!
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Leave me!
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Madam ! Let's go!
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Come with me! This way.
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Nassrin! Mahtab!
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Professor!
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Professor Nafisi!
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- There's nothing you can do about it.
- She's my student!
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She's only 17!
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Come in!
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Thanks, Mohsen.
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Stay away from windows!
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THANKS.
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My name is Azar. Nafisi.
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I know you.
Drama?
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Before.
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For what ?
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They didn't approve of my plays.
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Probably inappropriate authors.
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No,
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this time,
it was the leftists.
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Logic. We must teach
revolutionary works.
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If that made sense,
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we could discuss it.
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But I told them
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that my program
was not negotiable.
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Looks like we can go.
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What are you going to do,
if you no longer teach?
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I don't know anything about it.
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Maybe finally write a novel.
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Wait and see.
Or rather, do nothing.
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It's up to you to tell me what to do.
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Tension at our border
with Iraq persists.
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The University of Tehran
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the theater remains
of student violence.
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Radical activity followed on campus
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led to arrest
of 40 students.
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But the security forces
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do not use force
against the agitators...
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I called their parents,
without being able to contact them.
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They must be in Evin prison.
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I have to go.
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Don't go there.
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I'm serious.
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Their families are there.
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You can't do anything.
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You'll just get noticed.
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Isn't that already the case?
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Bijan...
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Stop hitting me! Mom !
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It hurts!
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Mom, please! Where are you?
They're killing me!
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Stop!
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Emamzadeh!
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Rahmati.
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Rahimi.
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Hold on.
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Be strong.
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Come on.
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Come on !
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{\an8}Evin Prison
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Following a directive
of the beloved Supreme Leader,
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Imam Khomeini,
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Parliament adopted the law
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on wearing the Islamic hijab.
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Wearing the veil is obligatory
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for women from the age of 9,
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in government institutions,
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universities, schools,
in the workplace...
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Madam!
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Your papers, please.
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You can't come in like that.
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I come “like this”
since I taught here.
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You must cover your hair.
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I can arrest any unveiled woman.
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I'm not just anyone,
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I teach at this university.
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It's an order
of the president of the university.
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No woman enters without a hijab.
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Madam...
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I risk my position
if I let you in.
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Everyone is responsible for their actions,
no?
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So excuse me.
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You're kidding.
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Madam, stop!
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It's good !
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Madam !
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Madam !
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The adulterous whore Nafisi
should be returned.
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Professor Nafisi?
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Excuse me.
278
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The president of the university
wants to talk to you.
279
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Know that I am on your side.
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For what ?
281
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Women are essential
to the success of the revolution.
282
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Our enemies from within
and from the outside
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must see us united.
284
00:21:32,650 --> 00:21:33,608
And...
285
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for your books...
286
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Wait, professor.
287
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You are welcome.
288
00:21:49,817 --> 00:21:51,733
The survival of the revolution is at stake.
289
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Mr. Bahri...
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My grandmother was a Muslim
very practical.
291
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She was doing
dawn prayer on time.
292
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She was veiled
because she was a believer,
293
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it was not a symbol.
294
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Islam and the State,
it's not the same thing.
295
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Nor for her,
296
00:22:13,483 --> 00:22:14,983
nor for me.
297
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You can tell your president.
298
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Good morning.
299
00:22:57,817 --> 00:23:01,025
- Where are you going ?
- I have an appointment with the president.
300
00:23:25,733 --> 00:23:28,525
What are you wearing underneath?
Almost nothing!
301
00:23:29,067 --> 00:23:30,608
How does this concern you?
302
00:23:31,733 --> 00:23:34,358
Rub the mud on your face.
303
00:23:34,525 --> 00:23:38,733
I have nothing on my face,
I never put “mud”.
304
00:23:40,567 --> 00:23:42,942
- There's something.
- You hurt me.
305
00:23:43,108 --> 00:23:44,817
Don't answer.
306
00:23:45,442 --> 00:23:47,400
I will file a complaint against you.
307
00:23:47,567 --> 00:23:49,650
Do what you want.
308
00:23:55,567 --> 00:23:56,567
Go for it.
309
00:23:56,733 --> 00:23:58,108
Fourth floor.
310
00:24:11,192 --> 00:24:13,442
Where are you going ?
It's over here.
311
00:24:40,358 --> 00:24:42,942
You thought
what could this happen to us?
312
00:24:48,900 --> 00:24:51,900
No. But I should have.
313
00:24:56,483 --> 00:24:58,150
What are we going to do?
314
00:25:04,983 --> 00:25:08,150
We go to bed,
We'll see tomorrow what we can do.
315
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Are you coming?
316
00:25:19,108 --> 00:25:20,650
Yes, I'm coming.
317
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Mahtab...
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Execution of 8 members
of the reactionary Farghangroup
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PART II
LOLITA
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FIFTEEN YEARS LATER
1995
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Hello?
322
00:27:31,942 --> 00:27:34,317
I don't know why I do this.
323
00:27:34,483 --> 00:27:36,567
It’s too risky.
324
00:27:36,942 --> 00:27:39,317
I put all the girls in danger.
325
00:27:40,317 --> 00:27:42,067
I should cancel.
326
00:27:43,358 --> 00:27:44,317
No?
327
00:27:46,025 --> 00:27:47,317
You can't.
328
00:27:48,150 --> 00:27:50,108
What if someone discovers us?
329
00:27:50,275 --> 00:27:51,983
What if someone reports us?
330
00:27:52,150 --> 00:27:53,358
They know
331
00:27:53,525 --> 00:27:56,650
that it is forbidden and dangerous.
332
00:27:57,608 --> 00:27:59,983
Just like you,
they like risk.
333
00:28:00,150 --> 00:28:02,817
This is precisely what scares me.
334
00:28:05,817 --> 00:28:08,233
They rely on your courage.
335
00:28:09,233 --> 00:28:10,525
As always.
336
00:28:10,900 --> 00:28:14,817
It was already the case
when they were your students.
337
00:28:14,983 --> 00:28:16,650
What if they don't come?
338
00:28:16,858 --> 00:28:18,150
They will come.
339
00:28:18,317 --> 00:28:19,650
Every Thursday.
340
00:28:19,817 --> 00:28:21,983
Even if stones fall from the sky.
341
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:23,608
Trust me.
342
00:28:24,692 --> 00:28:27,775
I got there,
should I trust you?
343
00:28:32,692 --> 00:28:33,692
THANKS.
344
00:28:33,858 --> 00:28:35,858
I'm glad you called.
345
00:28:37,025 --> 00:28:38,942
And me that you answered.
346
00:28:39,275 --> 00:28:43,025
Go get some sleep before they arrive.
347
00:28:43,192 --> 00:28:45,150
Sleep... Honestly...
348
00:28:45,858 --> 00:28:47,692
God bless you.
349
00:28:54,317 --> 00:28:55,233
Is it better?
350
00:28:57,608 --> 00:28:58,692
Yes.
351
00:29:00,775 --> 00:29:02,400
Don't worry.
352
00:29:05,108 --> 00:29:06,358
Negar! Dara!
353
00:29:06,525 --> 00:29:07,817
Do you want me to stay?
354
00:29:10,775 --> 00:29:11,900
No.
355
00:29:12,900 --> 00:29:14,858
I promised there would be
no man today.
356
00:29:16,817 --> 00:29:19,192
It will be great,
I'm sure of it.
357
00:29:20,650 --> 00:29:22,733
Listen to your grandmother.
358
00:29:23,483 --> 00:29:24,983
Negar, don't forget,
359
00:29:25,150 --> 00:29:28,067
recite calmly
the poem we learned.
360
00:29:28,233 --> 00:29:29,442
Thank you, mom.
361
00:29:29,608 --> 00:29:31,067
Dara, take your schoolbag.
362
00:29:32,067 --> 00:29:33,525
Be very careful, Azar.
363
00:29:33,692 --> 00:29:35,775
Don't worry.
364
00:29:36,317 --> 00:29:38,858
- Dara, eat your apple.
- Okay, mom!
365
00:29:39,317 --> 00:29:41,400
Bijan, I'm sure
that you will have the project.
366
00:29:45,483 --> 00:29:47,900
The price of milk fell by 2%
367
00:29:48,067 --> 00:29:50,733
following requests from the public...
368
00:29:55,525 --> 00:29:57,483
- Thank you very much.
- THANKS.
369
00:29:58,567 --> 00:30:00,067
There you go, dad.
370
00:30:00,233 --> 00:30:00,983
THANKS.
371
00:30:01,150 --> 00:30:02,317
I'm going there.
372
00:30:03,025 --> 00:30:04,983
Will there be no men where you're going?
373
00:30:05,150 --> 00:30:08,733
We translate Islamic texts
in English.
374
00:30:08,900 --> 00:30:11,233
We don't need men for that.
375
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,025
- Be careful.
- Of course.
376
00:30:21,233 --> 00:30:23,108
She's getting used to your outings.
377
00:30:24,900 --> 00:30:26,483
She doesn't cry anymore.
378
00:30:27,942 --> 00:30:29,733
Wouldn't you rather mom stay?
379
00:30:29,900 --> 00:30:31,233
Enough, Reza!
380
00:30:34,317 --> 00:30:36,275
Mom will come back soon.
381
00:30:41,275 --> 00:30:43,317
I still think it's unfair.
382
00:30:43,483 --> 00:30:44,983
Life isn't fair.
383
00:30:47,942 --> 00:30:50,733
Maybe you're right.
It's unfair.
384
00:30:51,108 --> 00:30:52,650
What ?
385
00:30:53,358 --> 00:30:55,608
No, go ahead.
386
00:30:56,067 --> 00:30:58,567
Otherwise, how will you be
the next Forough Farrokhzad?
387
00:30:59,358 --> 00:31:01,233
"Everyone knows that you and I
388
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:03,567
looked through the oblique.
389
00:31:03,733 --> 00:31:05,275
And seen the garden."
390
00:31:05,442 --> 00:31:06,775
“And saw the garden.”
391
00:31:24,025 --> 00:31:25,608
Hello, Mahshid!
392
00:31:29,567 --> 00:31:30,733
Hello Mrs.
393
00:31:30,900 --> 00:31:31,983
Good morning.
394
00:31:34,567 --> 00:31:37,650
- Are you doing well ?
- Thank you for buying the flowers.
395
00:31:39,192 --> 00:31:40,192
How are you ?
396
00:31:40,358 --> 00:31:41,358
Nice to see you again.
397
00:31:41,525 --> 00:31:43,733
Me too. How are you ?
398
00:31:43,900 --> 00:31:45,150
How are you.
399
00:31:45,317 --> 00:31:47,192
- Is it number 3?
- Yes.
400
00:31:50,067 --> 00:31:51,567
Are we the first?
401
00:31:51,733 --> 00:31:53,400
I don't know.
402
00:31:54,483 --> 00:31:56,650
Who else is coming?
403
00:31:56,817 --> 00:31:59,233
- Azin is coming too?
- You don't like him?
404
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,025
Not too much,
I hope she's not invited.
405
00:32:02,192 --> 00:32:04,233
But she's great!
406
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,483
Married three times.
We don't even have a boyfriend.
407
00:32:07,650 --> 00:32:09,692
They are superb, thank you.
408
00:32:09,858 --> 00:32:11,900
Welcome! Enter.
409
00:32:13,608 --> 00:32:16,358
- Did you find it easily?
- Yes. THANKS.
410
00:32:18,775 --> 00:32:19,733
Look
411
00:32:19,900 --> 00:32:21,275
the mountains.
412
00:32:21,442 --> 00:32:22,608
It's magnificent.
413
00:32:23,358 --> 00:32:25,108
My husband is not here.
Don't worry.
414
00:32:25,275 --> 00:32:26,150
THANKS.
415
00:32:34,067 --> 00:32:35,483
Nassrin.
416
00:32:36,025 --> 00:32:37,775
Welcome, my dear.
417
00:32:38,108 --> 00:32:41,150
You remember Mahshid.
And Yassi.
418
00:32:41,317 --> 00:32:43,442
Your mother let me in.
419
00:32:43,608 --> 00:32:45,108
Manna... It's been a long time.
420
00:32:45,275 --> 00:32:47,317
From Nima and me.
421
00:32:47,483 --> 00:32:49,442
He says we're lucky.
422
00:32:49,608 --> 00:32:51,192
- Is he okay?
- Alright.
423
00:33:07,983 --> 00:33:08,817
Azin, my dear.
424
00:33:08,983 --> 00:33:10,567
- Am I late?
- But no.
425
00:33:10,733 --> 00:33:12,108
So much the better.
426
00:33:23,983 --> 00:33:25,525
Come in, welcome.
427
00:33:26,942 --> 00:33:31,400
This is Sanaz, one of my best
students from Alameh University.
428
00:33:31,775 --> 00:33:33,025
Good morning.
429
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:34,400
Sit down.
430
00:33:36,442 --> 00:33:37,442
GOOD.
431
00:33:38,983 --> 00:33:43,150
I was really scared
to cause you trouble.
432
00:33:43,817 --> 00:33:44,775
I hope
433
00:33:44,942 --> 00:33:47,775
that your presence
Don't disturb your families.
434
00:33:49,733 --> 00:33:51,108
We are here
435
00:33:51,483 --> 00:33:52,942
because over the years,
436
00:33:53,108 --> 00:33:56,942
you have proven to me that you are devoted
to the study of literature.
437
00:33:58,108 --> 00:34:00,400
Literature
of which they want to deprive us.
438
00:34:00,567 --> 00:34:02,358
Banned books.
439
00:34:04,192 --> 00:34:06,108
The words they fear.
440
00:34:08,900 --> 00:34:12,817
Let's see if our faith in reading
can transform
441
00:34:12,983 --> 00:34:14,775
our gloomy reality.
442
00:34:15,192 --> 00:34:18,692
Let's see if you read Lolita here in Tehran,
443
00:34:18,983 --> 00:34:20,733
will help us fight.
444
00:34:26,900 --> 00:34:29,025
Who wants to start?
445
00:34:30,275 --> 00:34:32,400
What do we think of Lolita?
446
00:34:35,900 --> 00:34:36,942
Come on.
447
00:34:37,317 --> 00:34:39,108
Something ? A word?
448
00:34:40,108 --> 00:34:43,317
We will devote time to him.
You know it.
449
00:34:43,483 --> 00:34:45,442
Maybe it's too comfortable here.
450
00:34:45,692 --> 00:34:47,567
I will take care of your comfort.
451
00:34:48,608 --> 00:34:50,025
Don't worry.
452
00:34:53,942 --> 00:34:55,192
Shall we start?
453
00:35:32,942 --> 00:35:34,275
In the book,
454
00:35:34,692 --> 00:35:36,650
Humbert said bluntly
455
00:35:37,608 --> 00:35:39,358
than what he had
456
00:35:39,525 --> 00:35:41,608
was not the real Lolita,
457
00:35:42,317 --> 00:35:44,275
but the one he imagined.
458
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:46,942
His own creation.
459
00:35:48,150 --> 00:35:49,983
A Lolita without will,
460
00:35:50,483 --> 00:35:52,108
without personal life.
461
00:36:16,692 --> 00:36:18,525
“Something” happened there.
462
00:36:24,858 --> 00:36:27,900
Lolita ignores
what readers know.
463
00:36:29,150 --> 00:36:30,900
And no matter how much
464
00:36:31,067 --> 00:36:33,233
Humbert tries to coax us,
465
00:36:33,858 --> 00:36:35,983
the directive intelligence of the book
466
00:36:36,150 --> 00:36:38,233
is Nabokov, the storyteller.
467
00:36:41,317 --> 00:36:43,567
It doesn't change anything
to what he does to her,
468
00:36:44,150 --> 00:36:46,692
or what we experience in the streets.
469
00:36:46,983 --> 00:36:49,025
Lolita has nowhere to go.
470
00:36:50,358 --> 00:36:52,108
But that's not our case.
471
00:36:52,983 --> 00:36:55,483
Here we are all together.
472
00:36:57,067 --> 00:36:58,567
We are together.
473
00:37:45,067 --> 00:37:46,650
Okay, then...
474
00:37:46,900 --> 00:37:50,317
This “moral teacher”
draw two columns on the board.
475
00:37:50,567 --> 00:37:52,525
"Muslim girl" on one side
476
00:37:52,692 --> 00:37:54,733
and “Christian girl” on the other.
477
00:37:55,192 --> 00:37:58,233
He asks
what is the difference between them.
478
00:37:58,608 --> 00:38:01,983
"One is a virgin. White and pure,
479
00:38:02,150 --> 00:38:04,817
she reserves herself for her husband.
480
00:38:04,983 --> 00:38:06,900
Powerful because she is a virgin."
481
00:38:07,317 --> 00:38:08,650
Of course,
482
00:38:08,817 --> 00:38:12,150
modesty gives you
a certain power. Like...
483
00:38:12,317 --> 00:38:15,317
Like? Don't be a prostitute
with painted nails.
484
00:38:15,483 --> 00:38:17,317
I meant someone who...
485
00:38:18,025 --> 00:38:19,525
Who holds back...
486
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:23,900
Hello, my dear Sanaz.
487
00:38:25,525 --> 00:38:27,775
Sorry,
my brother wanted to accompany me
488
00:38:27,942 --> 00:38:29,733
and he's always late.
489
00:38:29,900 --> 00:38:31,817
We missed you last time.
490
00:38:34,358 --> 00:38:36,275
- What happened?
- Nothing.
491
00:38:50,817 --> 00:38:51,733
Good morning.
492
00:38:51,900 --> 00:38:54,317
We missed you.
Where were you?
493
00:38:54,900 --> 00:38:55,858
Are you doing well ?
494
00:38:56,650 --> 00:38:57,608
Yes.
495
00:38:58,692 --> 00:38:59,525
THANKS.
496
00:38:59,692 --> 00:39:01,400
Sanaz brought cookies.
497
00:39:02,525 --> 00:39:05,692
They are absolutely outrageous.
498
00:39:05,858 --> 00:39:07,317
You chose them for that, right?
499
00:39:07,483 --> 00:39:09,192
Because of the cookies in Lolita?
500
00:39:09,358 --> 00:39:10,983
Perfectly wanton!
501
00:39:11,150 --> 00:39:12,442
They're great, but...
502
00:39:12,608 --> 00:39:13,400
Thank you.
503
00:39:13,733 --> 00:39:15,608
Okay, girls.
504
00:39:16,108 --> 00:39:17,025
Shall we start?
505
00:39:19,150 --> 00:39:20,608
I have a question.
506
00:39:23,275 --> 00:39:24,733
Are we Lolita?
507
00:39:27,650 --> 00:39:29,192
Of course we are Lolita.
508
00:39:29,817 --> 00:39:30,733
For what ?
509
00:39:31,358 --> 00:39:34,067
Because we are controlled
by old perverts.
510
00:39:34,233 --> 00:39:35,650
So you say
511
00:39:35,817 --> 00:39:37,983
that they are all
incestuous pedophiles?
512
00:39:38,150 --> 00:39:39,733
Not all.
513
00:39:40,567 --> 00:39:41,608
But most.
514
00:39:43,317 --> 00:39:44,400
Am I wrong?
515
00:39:47,233 --> 00:39:48,525
I'm not wrong.
516
00:39:49,650 --> 00:39:52,567
Any questions so far?
517
00:39:52,733 --> 00:39:55,733
I, Sanaz Mohadam,
I admit to having had an illegitimate relationship.
518
00:39:55,900 --> 00:39:58,817
I broke Islamic law,
betrayed the honor of my family and mine.
519
00:41:03,317 --> 00:41:06,108
How to escape guilt?
520
00:41:11,608 --> 00:41:13,817
It is theirs to be ashamed of.
521
00:41:14,192 --> 00:41:15,608
How does this help?
522
00:41:16,650 --> 00:41:18,733
They force you to confess
an imaginary fault,
523
00:41:18,900 --> 00:41:20,983
to say that you have sinned.
524
00:41:21,150 --> 00:41:22,900
But you have not sinned, Sanaz.
525
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:24,775
Repeat something a thousand times
526
00:41:24,942 --> 00:41:27,442
and it begins to replace the truth.
527
00:41:28,733 --> 00:41:30,608
Otherwise, why would they arrest you?
528
00:41:31,025 --> 00:41:32,858
“Who were you with? Who are they?
529
00:41:39,442 --> 00:41:41,358
Didn't you drink alcohol?
530
00:41:41,525 --> 00:41:43,067
What were you wearing?"
531
00:41:43,525 --> 00:41:45,483
But they found nothing?
532
00:41:46,442 --> 00:41:47,983
There was nothing to find.
533
00:41:49,775 --> 00:41:51,608
We were found guilty
534
00:41:51,775 --> 00:41:54,650
of “Western behavior”.
And it's true.
535
00:41:55,233 --> 00:41:58,067
There is no such thing as “thought crime.”
536
00:41:58,733 --> 00:42:00,317
Of course it is.
537
00:42:04,567 --> 00:42:07,567
Even though I didn't commit
real crime,
538
00:42:11,233 --> 00:42:12,525
I betrayed myself
539
00:42:12,692 --> 00:42:15,317
by confessing.
I betrayed us all.
540
00:42:17,608 --> 00:42:19,275
I confessed.
541
00:42:22,608 --> 00:42:23,900
I signed.
542
00:42:29,275 --> 00:42:30,983
Sanaz left this.
543
00:42:34,150 --> 00:42:37,525
They asked
if they were Lolita.
544
00:42:38,192 --> 00:42:39,650
What did you answer?
545
00:42:41,608 --> 00:42:44,775
That she is alone,
defenseless, that she suffers rape,
546
00:42:45,358 --> 00:42:48,192
loses his autonomy,
his future, his person,
547
00:42:48,358 --> 00:42:51,525
because of a crazy adult
obsessed with his past.
548
00:42:52,525 --> 00:42:56,150
It is precisely
what the "bearded guy" did to us here.
549
00:42:57,192 --> 00:43:00,317
Novels are not representations
literature of our lives.
550
00:43:00,483 --> 00:43:01,608
Why not ?
551
00:43:01,775 --> 00:43:03,233
Of course it is.
552
00:43:04,150 --> 00:43:06,275
It’s often exactly that.
553
00:43:06,983 --> 00:43:08,525
"Mr. Hamid...
554
00:43:08,817 --> 00:43:11,567
Large selection of books in English.
555
00:43:12,025 --> 00:43:13,483
It was another era.
556
00:43:16,067 --> 00:43:18,400
I can't take away their hope.
557
00:43:19,358 --> 00:43:20,483
I know.
558
00:43:39,442 --> 00:43:40,775
Keep it.
559
00:43:41,608 --> 00:43:43,525
Show it to the girls.
560
00:43:43,817 --> 00:43:46,233
Where did you get it?
561
00:43:47,150 --> 00:43:48,858
I've had it for a while.
562
00:43:49,108 --> 00:43:50,733
I bought it here.
563
00:43:50,900 --> 00:43:53,233
Mr. Hamid always knew what I liked.
564
00:43:54,775 --> 00:43:57,900
He told me one day
that if he had known me before,
565
00:43:58,567 --> 00:44:01,817
he would have kept me
Buñuel's autobiography.
566
00:44:02,358 --> 00:44:03,858
It was me who bought it.
567
00:44:04,817 --> 00:44:06,858
You are quite a number...
568
00:44:07,317 --> 00:44:08,900
If I remember correctly,
569
00:44:09,067 --> 00:44:12,650
someone took
an entire shelf of Henry James.
570
00:44:13,275 --> 00:44:15,108
My dear...
571
00:44:15,358 --> 00:44:17,983
You could have at least left me
The Golden Cup.
572
00:44:19,275 --> 00:44:21,567
Although no one arrives
to finish this book.
573
00:44:21,733 --> 00:44:22,983
Not even me.
574
00:44:24,150 --> 00:44:26,733
If you can't read
The Golden Cup,
575
00:44:26,900 --> 00:44:28,775
you don't deserve it.
576
00:45:27,567 --> 00:45:29,775
That's what girls are missing.
577
00:45:30,233 --> 00:45:33,192
Memories...
578
00:45:34,358 --> 00:45:36,275
As adults, anyway.
579
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:39,858
No walks with their lover.
580
00:45:40,525 --> 00:45:43,400
No passionate phone calls
581
00:45:43,567 --> 00:45:45,317
late at night.
582
00:45:47,067 --> 00:45:49,858
No stolen kisses.
583
00:46:31,192 --> 00:46:32,858
I have to go.
584
00:47:05,817 --> 00:47:09,233
PART III
DAISY MILLER
585
00:47:17,275 --> 00:47:20,025
The Islamic Republic rejected
586
00:47:20,192 --> 00:47:24,358
United Nations Resolution 598.
587
00:47:25,067 --> 00:47:27,358
Our esteemed supreme guide,
588
00:47:27,525 --> 00:47:29,233
Imam Khomeini,
589
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:33,608
set two preconditions.
590
00:47:33,775 --> 00:47:34,733
First,
591
00:47:34,900 --> 00:47:38,483
the dismissal of the Iraqi president,
Saddam Hussein,
592
00:47:38,650 --> 00:47:44,192
a request expressed
eight years ago, in 1980,
593
00:47:44,358 --> 00:47:49,608
when Iraq
invaded our sacred land...
594
00:47:52,942 --> 00:47:54,025
Be careful!
595
00:47:54,192 --> 00:47:57,442
I take the children,
go get my mother!
596
00:47:57,608 --> 00:48:00,483
Red alert! Missile fire!
597
00:48:04,567 --> 00:48:06,233
It's nothing, it's nothing...
598
00:48:28,692 --> 00:48:30,442
My dear students,
599
00:48:31,192 --> 00:48:34,650
after eight years
of a horrible endless war,
600
00:48:34,817 --> 00:48:38,400
and the birth of my two
wonderful children, Negar and Dara,
601
00:48:38,567 --> 00:48:42,692
I realized that my love
for literature surpassed everything.
602
00:48:43,775 --> 00:48:46,108
So I chose to come to work
603
00:48:46,317 --> 00:48:47,900
in this new university.
604
00:48:48,650 --> 00:48:50,608
I am delighted
that some of my former students
605
00:48:50,775 --> 00:48:53,817
attend my classes,
here in Alameh.
606
00:48:54,900 --> 00:48:56,733
And I welcome
to the new ones.
607
00:48:57,358 --> 00:49:01,317
We are going to talk about a woman
truly revolutionary.
608
00:49:01,900 --> 00:49:04,067
An example of the new woman
609
00:49:04,233 --> 00:49:05,483
from the 19th century,
610
00:49:05,650 --> 00:49:07,900
who does not follow the old traditions,
611
00:49:08,067 --> 00:49:09,942
and sets its own rules.
612
00:49:10,483 --> 00:49:11,108
Yes ?
613
00:49:12,025 --> 00:49:14,525
What is revolutionary about it?
614
00:49:14,692 --> 00:49:17,608
Daisy Miller is clearly
a bad girl.
615
00:49:17,775 --> 00:49:19,150
Thank you, sir...?
616
00:49:19,317 --> 00:49:21,442
-Ghomi.
- Mr Ghomi, thank you.
617
00:49:21,900 --> 00:49:22,525
All right ?
618
00:49:24,150 --> 00:49:25,567
Disagree?
619
00:49:26,067 --> 00:49:28,108
Husayn, Husayn is our slogan!
620
00:49:28,275 --> 00:49:30,275
Martyrdom is our pride!
621
00:49:52,858 --> 00:49:53,817
Well,
622
00:49:54,650 --> 00:49:56,900
Henry James
doesn't agree with that.
623
00:49:57,067 --> 00:49:59,317
What is Daisy Miller
really does
624
00:49:59,483 --> 00:50:01,233
Who makes her bad in your eyes?
625
00:50:01,608 --> 00:50:04,817
Apart from not respecting
social norms
626
00:50:04,983 --> 00:50:06,650
of those around him?
627
00:50:06,817 --> 00:50:08,525
She is honest.
628
00:50:08,692 --> 00:50:10,317
Does that make her bad?
629
00:50:11,108 --> 00:50:13,067
- We see the truth about her...
- Sorry?
630
00:50:13,733 --> 00:50:16,900
We see her
because we are moral,
631
00:50:17,275 --> 00:50:19,650
that we experienced
real evil,
632
00:50:19,817 --> 00:50:22,067
an internal and external war.
633
00:50:22,233 --> 00:50:23,275
Hence the importance
634
00:50:23,442 --> 00:50:26,150
that Henry James
experienced war himself?
635
00:50:27,108 --> 00:50:28,525
Impossible to continue like this.
636
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:31,733
The course is over.
637
00:50:32,650 --> 00:50:33,775
See you next week.
638
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:37,733
Don't worry, we'll be there.
639
00:50:44,608 --> 00:50:47,650
Look like Ghomi
respect his martyr friends.
640
00:50:48,942 --> 00:50:51,608
Death brought him to God, right?
641
00:50:52,025 --> 00:50:53,817
They say their only love is God.
642
00:50:53,983 --> 00:50:56,858
Pay attention
to what you want.
643
00:51:00,650 --> 00:51:04,317
Professor Nafisi, I'm sorry,
you didn't know him.
644
00:51:04,983 --> 00:51:06,817
We do.
645
00:51:06,983 --> 00:51:09,358
He got one of our friends fired
646
00:51:10,025 --> 00:51:13,608
saying he's excited by her skin
seen under her scarf.
647
00:51:22,900 --> 00:51:24,192
Go talk to him.
648
00:51:34,358 --> 00:51:35,567
Professor!
649
00:51:41,858 --> 00:51:42,900
Yes, my dear.
650
00:51:46,650 --> 00:51:50,233
Should we be sorry
for these killed fanatics?
651
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:52,358
No, that's not the question.
652
00:51:53,775 --> 00:51:57,150
Whatever they do,
we cannot be like them.
653
00:51:57,317 --> 00:51:58,483
Do you understand?
654
00:52:01,275 --> 00:52:02,275
Yes.
655
00:52:04,567 --> 00:52:05,650
Sorry.
656
00:52:06,525 --> 00:52:07,733
Nassrin.
657
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:15,775
I saw them take you away that day.
658
00:52:17,525 --> 00:52:19,817
I know what they did to Mahtab.
659
00:52:20,608 --> 00:52:22,150
I'm sorry.
660
00:52:25,817 --> 00:52:26,983
The worst for me,
661
00:52:27,150 --> 00:52:30,525
it was when they called people
in the middle of the night.
662
00:52:35,567 --> 00:52:37,900
Every time,
they took three girls
663
00:52:38,067 --> 00:52:40,650
and we couldn't hear
only two shots.
664
00:52:42,067 --> 00:52:43,317
Ahmadi!
665
00:52:44,900 --> 00:52:48,025
An eternity passed
before we knew who had survived.
666
00:52:57,650 --> 00:52:59,608
Fortunately, you escaped.
667
00:53:01,525 --> 00:53:03,900
If my father did not share their faith,
668
00:53:05,108 --> 00:53:07,983
God knows where I would be now.
669
00:53:10,150 --> 00:53:12,775
For some,
it was better to die.
670
00:53:14,692 --> 00:53:16,067
There was one...
671
00:53:16,483 --> 00:53:18,692
She wasn't even politicized,
672
00:53:18,900 --> 00:53:20,442
she was just beautiful.
673
00:53:21,525 --> 00:53:23,608
They passed it to each other
674
00:53:25,358 --> 00:53:26,900
and raped her
675
00:53:28,692 --> 00:53:30,650
so that she is no longer a virgin
676
00:53:32,525 --> 00:53:35,233
and don't go to heaven
after they allegedly killed her.
677
00:53:36,858 --> 00:53:38,942
Touching us was forbidden,
678
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:41,400
but rape, no problem.
679
00:53:59,317 --> 00:54:01,775
We talked a lot about books,
Mahtab and me.
680
00:54:02,817 --> 00:54:04,108
It was good.
681
00:54:07,233 --> 00:54:09,025
A Pyrrhic victory.
682
00:54:12,233 --> 00:54:13,108
Pyrrhic.
683
00:54:13,275 --> 00:54:17,400
Let us pay tribute to our dear brother
684
00:54:17,567 --> 00:54:22,275
who sacrificed his life for good
of the Islamic Republic!
685
00:54:36,692 --> 00:54:37,983
Professor Nafisi...
686
00:54:38,900 --> 00:54:40,567
Mr Bahri!
687
00:54:41,358 --> 00:54:42,817
I'm fine, professor,
688
00:54:43,275 --> 00:54:45,692
much better than others,
Praise God.
689
00:54:51,358 --> 00:54:52,983
What a pleasure to see you.
690
00:54:53,942 --> 00:54:55,108
Shared pleasure.
691
00:54:57,483 --> 00:55:00,233
I said to myself
that I would come to greet you.
692
00:55:03,192 --> 00:55:04,525
Say hello to you.
693
00:55:06,483 --> 00:55:09,650
Tell you that my sister
is a student here.
694
00:55:11,692 --> 00:55:14,942
She doesn't read much,
so she doesn't take your classes.
695
00:55:15,108 --> 00:55:18,858
There are so many other activities
for women than to study
696
00:55:19,358 --> 00:55:21,358
corrupt Western novels.
697
00:55:22,858 --> 00:55:23,942
Touch.
698
00:55:25,192 --> 00:55:28,692
Anyway, her fiancé
is the leader of Islamic jihad here.
699
00:55:29,358 --> 00:55:31,650
He knows a lot of people,
700
00:55:31,817 --> 00:55:34,150
he is well seen,
he gets things.
701
00:55:34,525 --> 00:55:37,317
He has two tickets too many
702
00:55:37,608 --> 00:55:39,650
for The Sacrifice,
703
00:55:39,817 --> 00:55:41,775
at the Milad festival on Friday.
704
00:55:43,483 --> 00:55:44,358
Here,
705
00:55:44,525 --> 00:55:47,108
a very late thank you
706
00:55:47,275 --> 00:55:48,358
for your lessons.
707
00:55:53,067 --> 00:55:54,817
You remember
708
00:55:56,317 --> 00:56:00,692
that we say that Islam and the State,
it's not the same thing.
709
00:56:01,317 --> 00:56:02,358
Yes.
710
00:56:04,358 --> 00:56:06,025
Do you approve of this today?
711
00:56:06,567 --> 00:56:07,650
No.
712
00:56:08,900 --> 00:56:09,900
But...
713
00:56:10,983 --> 00:56:13,567
It's not that simple, is it?
714
00:56:16,150 --> 00:56:17,525
Indeed.
715
00:56:18,817 --> 00:56:20,442
But what is?
716
00:56:23,733 --> 00:56:26,233
You are sure
not wanting to go?
717
00:56:27,858 --> 00:56:29,650
You will enjoy it more than me.
718
00:56:30,900 --> 00:56:32,650
I prefer Tom Hanks.
719
00:56:35,150 --> 00:56:36,608
I like it too.
720
00:56:41,900 --> 00:56:44,942
7th international film festival
by Milad
721
00:57:08,733 --> 00:57:10,567
I love Tarkovsky.
722
00:57:11,275 --> 00:57:11,900
Me too.
723
00:57:16,733 --> 00:57:19,317
Are they really planning this?
724
00:57:20,275 --> 00:57:22,858
In Swedish and without subtitles.
725
00:57:24,150 --> 00:57:27,650
I just want to see
what the censor did with it.
726
00:58:33,108 --> 00:58:34,858
Amazing.
727
00:58:40,108 --> 00:58:44,608
In the name of God,
the Clement, the Merciful.
728
00:58:44,775 --> 00:58:47,025
Praise be to God,
729
00:58:50,233 --> 00:58:53,525
the Clement, the Merciful,
the King of Judgment Day.
730
00:58:57,983 --> 00:58:59,942
Husayn, Husayn is our slogan!
731
00:59:00,108 --> 00:59:02,192
Martyrdom is our pride!
732
00:59:13,483 --> 00:59:15,442
They lied to us!
733
00:59:15,733 --> 00:59:17,483
They lied to us!
734
00:59:19,858 --> 00:59:22,525
Ghomi, what are you doing?
735
00:59:22,692 --> 00:59:25,817
He locked himself away,
go get the keys!
736
00:59:25,983 --> 00:59:28,233
Ghomi, stop! Open the door!
737
00:59:46,025 --> 00:59:48,775
- I have the keys!
- Open the door, quickly!
738
00:59:59,358 --> 01:00:01,817
Let me in!
739
01:00:07,150 --> 01:00:09,567
What did he do...
740
01:00:58,775 --> 01:00:59,483
Hello.
741
01:00:59,942 --> 01:01:02,692
Could I speak to Bijan Naderi?
742
01:01:03,567 --> 01:01:05,775
I'm his wife, thank you.
743
01:01:15,858 --> 01:01:18,567
No, don't bother him.
It's not worth it.
744
01:01:20,192 --> 01:01:22,525
Just tell him I called.
745
01:01:23,483 --> 01:01:24,483
THANKS.
746
01:02:04,567 --> 01:02:06,442
You say you knew him?
747
01:02:07,358 --> 01:02:11,233
Yes, a big shot
of the Muslim Students Association.
748
01:02:11,567 --> 01:02:12,983
He never read books,
749
01:02:13,150 --> 01:02:16,108
but he always had
something to say.
750
01:02:16,942 --> 01:02:19,400
He talked about the war all the time.
751
01:02:19,692 --> 01:02:22,150
Eventually he was sent to the front.
752
01:02:24,317 --> 01:02:27,733
"The war was a blessing
for us." He believed it.
753
01:02:28,525 --> 01:02:31,275
Because she really was for him.
754
01:02:32,150 --> 01:02:33,317
Yes,
755
01:02:33,692 --> 01:02:34,942
and then he came home
756
01:02:35,108 --> 01:02:38,900
and he saw everyone looking
the Oscars on their screens.
757
01:02:39,233 --> 01:02:41,275
It drove him crazy.
758
01:02:42,692 --> 01:02:44,483
And he made his decision.
759
01:02:48,233 --> 01:02:49,817
He repeated...
760
01:02:50,650 --> 01:02:52,358
"They lied to me,
761
01:02:53,692 --> 01:02:55,192
They lied to me.”
762
01:02:58,900 --> 01:03:00,733
He had prepared well.
763
01:03:02,608 --> 01:03:06,567
He brought big cans
through the main doors,
764
01:03:07,608 --> 01:03:10,608
to an empty class
765
01:03:10,775 --> 01:03:13,192
on the second floor.
766
01:03:14,233 --> 01:03:15,525
He sat down
767
01:03:16,442 --> 01:03:18,442
and doused himself in gasoline.
768
01:03:23,192 --> 01:03:25,775
How could he do this?
769
01:03:30,442 --> 01:03:32,983
I don't want to worry about him.
770
01:03:34,442 --> 01:03:36,442
I wish I was stronger.
771
01:03:46,150 --> 01:03:48,692
My dear,
it's not about being strong.
772
01:04:01,275 --> 01:04:03,358
I can't teach anymore.
773
01:04:05,108 --> 01:04:06,358
For what ?
774
01:04:08,150 --> 01:04:09,775
Because of all that.
775
01:04:12,192 --> 01:04:14,942
Giving up is not the solution.
776
01:04:15,733 --> 01:04:17,483
You know it very well.
777
01:04:19,358 --> 01:04:20,442
And you ?
778
01:04:21,233 --> 01:04:24,317
You gave up.
You gave up everything.
779
01:04:24,483 --> 01:04:26,483
I gave up a long time ago.
780
01:04:26,650 --> 01:04:28,733
I'm no longer of any use.
781
01:04:29,858 --> 01:04:31,817
Like a disembodied brain.
782
01:04:32,525 --> 01:04:34,400
What nonsense...
783
01:04:35,150 --> 01:04:36,608
It's true,
784
01:04:37,567 --> 01:04:39,275
and I don't care.
785
01:04:39,442 --> 01:04:41,025
Why bother?
786
01:04:44,150 --> 01:04:46,442
What if I gave private lessons?
787
01:04:56,358 --> 01:04:57,358
Good morning.
788
01:04:58,817 --> 01:05:01,150
We were worried to death.
789
01:05:01,358 --> 01:05:02,942
Why didn't you call?
790
01:05:04,817 --> 01:05:07,025
I called.
I couldn't reach you.
791
01:05:07,192 --> 01:05:08,317
Grandma said
792
01:05:08,483 --> 01:05:11,025
that you might have been arrested.
793
01:05:11,192 --> 01:05:13,775
Don't say that kind of thing
to children.
794
01:05:13,942 --> 01:05:16,942
But we didn't know
what had happened.
795
01:05:17,108 --> 01:05:18,858
You are reckless.
796
01:05:19,025 --> 01:05:22,442
You walk around
with that colleague you like...
797
01:05:22,817 --> 01:05:25,233
One day they might arrest you,
798
01:05:25,400 --> 01:05:26,775
God forbid.
799
01:05:36,025 --> 01:05:38,317
Go talk to him. Go ahead.
800
01:05:42,775 --> 01:05:44,317
It's nothing, my darling,
801
01:05:44,483 --> 01:05:45,817
I'll come back.
802
01:05:53,567 --> 01:05:54,525
Bijan,
803
01:05:56,150 --> 01:05:57,983
this day was terrible.
804
01:05:58,483 --> 01:06:00,817
That's why
that you went to talk to him?
805
01:06:02,275 --> 01:06:05,692
I called you first,
but you were busy.
806
01:06:06,692 --> 01:06:08,483
Maybe that suited you.
807
01:06:09,983 --> 01:06:11,150
How so ?
808
01:06:11,317 --> 01:06:13,608
Why did you go talk to him?
rather than me?
809
01:06:13,775 --> 01:06:16,483
It's a simple question,
I want a simple answer.
810
01:06:16,733 --> 01:06:18,025
I told you why.
811
01:06:18,192 --> 01:06:21,400
- So it's my fault!
- No ! It's this cursed place.
812
01:06:21,567 --> 01:06:23,858
You can't
put everything on their backs.
813
01:06:24,025 --> 01:06:25,817
- But...
- But what?
814
01:06:26,358 --> 01:06:29,275
They imposed another rule
that you don't like!
815
01:06:36,108 --> 01:06:37,067
Yes.
816
01:06:37,483 --> 01:06:40,108
Yes, you are right.
It's my fault.
817
01:06:41,483 --> 01:06:42,817
I should have called you back.
818
01:06:43,942 --> 01:06:45,108
I'm sorry.
819
01:06:45,275 --> 01:06:48,067
Mom, Dara took my book!
820
01:06:48,233 --> 01:06:50,067
Dara, stop!
821
01:07:11,317 --> 01:07:12,275
Hello ?
822
01:07:12,442 --> 01:07:13,983
I called last night.
823
01:07:15,025 --> 01:07:16,400
Were you sick?
824
01:07:16,567 --> 01:07:18,733
Yes. And I had an argument with Bijan.
825
01:07:19,817 --> 01:07:21,983
I have to apologize to him.
826
01:07:22,400 --> 01:07:24,525
I was childish.
827
01:07:27,650 --> 01:07:29,983
I always tell him the same thing.
828
01:07:32,108 --> 01:07:34,025
You should stop me.
829
01:07:34,608 --> 01:07:36,942
Get this feeling out of your system,
830
01:07:37,108 --> 01:07:39,483
or you take yourself out of the system.
831
01:07:39,983 --> 01:07:41,817
You are smart.
832
01:07:42,525 --> 01:07:43,525
Obviously...
833
01:07:45,858 --> 01:07:48,275
This is neither Somalia nor Afghanistan,
834
01:07:48,442 --> 01:07:51,067
it could be much worse.
835
01:07:52,233 --> 01:07:53,858
I'm so tired.
836
01:07:55,025 --> 01:07:56,358
Rest,
837
01:07:56,775 --> 01:07:57,608
my dear.
838
01:07:58,733 --> 01:07:59,858
See you soon.
839
01:08:16,192 --> 01:08:18,442
To the dean of the Faculty of Letters
Alameh University
840
01:08:18,607 --> 01:08:20,107
Dear sir, upon my return,
841
01:08:20,275 --> 01:08:22,732
I thought that teaching English
would be a sublime mission,
842
01:08:22,900 --> 01:08:24,192
this was the case at the beginning.
843
01:08:28,900 --> 01:08:32,400
Today, for various reasons,
I can't continue.
844
01:08:32,567 --> 01:08:34,607
I therefore present my resignation.
845
01:08:44,150 --> 01:08:47,442
PART IV
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
846
01:08:56,150 --> 01:08:59,442
The goals were scored by Danaeifard
847
01:08:59,607 --> 01:09:02,900
in the 13th minute
and Farrokhi in the 58th...
848
01:09:04,482 --> 01:09:05,482
Dad...
849
01:09:06,275 --> 01:09:07,732
I forgot my...
850
01:09:10,482 --> 01:09:11,607
Thank you.
851
01:09:12,232 --> 01:09:13,442
I'm late.
852
01:09:14,857 --> 01:09:16,067
Nassrin.
853
01:09:17,482 --> 01:09:19,482
I don't want to lose you.
854
01:09:19,650 --> 01:09:21,275
Be careful, please.
855
01:09:21,650 --> 01:09:22,982
Don't worry.
856
01:09:25,982 --> 01:09:27,067
I love Jane Austen,
857
01:09:27,232 --> 01:09:29,775
but sometimes I have the impression
858
01:09:29,942 --> 01:09:32,357
that it makes everything too small.
859
01:09:32,525 --> 01:09:34,442
What if you don't go?
860
01:09:34,942 --> 01:09:36,357
Just this once?
861
01:09:37,775 --> 01:09:39,067
We would stay together.
862
01:09:48,900 --> 01:09:50,607
No matter how much you say,
863
01:09:51,358 --> 01:09:52,817
but men are like that.
864
01:09:52,983 --> 01:09:54,942
And we're supposed to marry them?
865
01:09:55,108 --> 01:09:58,233
Living with someone
that we don't know?
866
01:09:59,192 --> 01:10:01,567
That's why
that you never married?
867
01:10:04,233 --> 01:10:07,525
Forget it.
Stay home and take care of us.
868
01:10:07,692 --> 01:10:10,317
That’s one day a week! A day !
869
01:10:10,775 --> 01:10:12,275
And she sleeps.
870
01:10:12,567 --> 01:10:16,233
It's not about her.
You love your books more than us.
871
01:10:16,608 --> 01:10:18,025
More than you!
872
01:10:25,067 --> 01:10:26,358
No !
873
01:10:26,567 --> 01:10:28,692
Go talk about your stupid books.
874
01:10:28,900 --> 01:10:29,900
Go ahead.
875
01:10:46,775 --> 01:10:47,650
Okay, girls,
876
01:10:48,567 --> 01:10:50,900
ladies here,
gentlemen there.
877
01:10:51,067 --> 01:10:52,025
Who is the boy?
878
01:10:52,192 --> 01:10:55,192
Me.
Not a boy, a gentleman.
879
01:10:55,358 --> 01:10:57,150
I have never danced in my life.
880
01:10:57,317 --> 01:10:59,108
Take advantage of this opportunity.
881
01:10:59,400 --> 01:11:01,442
If you want to understand
Jane Austen,
882
01:11:01,608 --> 01:11:05,233
understand his England,
it's the only way.
883
01:11:05,483 --> 01:11:08,108
Are you blushing?
I'm not really a man.
884
01:11:08,275 --> 01:11:10,192
She's just embarrassed, like me.
885
01:11:10,358 --> 01:11:15,192
This is what the Bennet sisters
felt while looking for a husband.
886
01:11:15,483 --> 01:11:18,192
First, greet your partners.
887
01:11:19,567 --> 01:11:20,900
Touch your hands.
888
01:11:21,067 --> 01:11:23,233
At four, you start.
889
01:11:23,400 --> 01:11:25,817
One, two, three, four...
890
01:11:30,483 --> 01:11:32,650
One step to the right, one step to the left.
891
01:11:32,817 --> 01:11:34,567
Turn, three, four.
892
01:11:34,733 --> 01:11:37,233
- In what direction?
- It doesn't matter.
893
01:11:37,650 --> 01:11:41,067
Go to the end of the line.
And we start again.
894
01:11:41,233 --> 01:11:43,733
One, two, one, two.
895
01:11:45,900 --> 01:11:47,150
Now,
896
01:11:47,775 --> 01:11:52,025
I want you to talk
while dancing.
897
01:11:52,233 --> 01:11:53,067
All right ?
898
01:11:53,942 --> 01:11:55,317
Touch your hands.
899
01:11:59,483 --> 01:12:01,733
I'll be Bingley,
for being rich and stupid.
900
01:12:02,483 --> 01:12:04,775
Ouch! Nassrin was my foot.
901
01:12:05,567 --> 01:12:07,275
And don't forget the steps.
902
01:12:07,442 --> 01:12:08,233
Pardon.
903
01:12:13,483 --> 01:12:15,358
Girls... And dancing?
904
01:12:15,525 --> 01:12:17,567
Can't remember steps
905
01:12:17,733 --> 01:12:18,858
while speaking.
906
01:12:19,025 --> 01:12:21,233
- It's difficult.
- We're getting confused.
907
01:12:21,400 --> 01:12:23,608
So imagine Austen's characters.
908
01:12:23,775 --> 01:12:26,483
They had to court each other
according to the ritual,
909
01:12:26,650 --> 01:12:31,192
as precisely as the rules
of this rigid and structured dance.
910
01:12:31,358 --> 01:12:34,567
But how
focus on yourself
911
01:12:34,733 --> 01:12:36,775
and observe others?
912
01:12:36,942 --> 01:12:38,108
That's exactly it.
913
01:12:39,108 --> 01:12:41,067
Relationships are a dance,
914
01:12:41,233 --> 01:12:43,358
choreographed, ordered...
915
01:12:44,025 --> 01:12:45,150
Repressed.
916
01:12:46,233 --> 01:12:47,817
It was formal, yes.
917
01:12:47,983 --> 01:12:50,150
But it was all the more erotic.
918
01:12:50,442 --> 01:12:52,942
Imagine.
Lead a conversation
919
01:12:53,108 --> 01:12:55,858
in the middle of a public ritual.
920
01:12:56,275 --> 01:12:59,317
You must speak, move,
it's intense.
921
01:12:59,817 --> 01:13:02,650
The unsaid are also vital
than what is said.
922
01:13:02,817 --> 01:13:04,108
I have a question.
923
01:13:04,275 --> 01:13:08,858
Has the Islamic Republic given us
taken back to the time of Jane Austen?
924
01:13:09,192 --> 01:13:11,150
Marriages were arranged.
925
01:13:11,317 --> 01:13:14,608
There was this rigid idea
who belongs to whom.
926
01:13:14,775 --> 01:13:16,983
In a way, Yassi is right.
927
01:13:17,150 --> 01:13:21,608
Yes, with the exception of polygamy
and “temporary marriage”.
928
01:13:21,775 --> 01:13:22,942
And for these?
929
01:13:23,108 --> 01:13:24,275
It's true.
930
01:13:24,442 --> 01:13:27,192
I don't approve
temporary marriage, but...
931
01:13:27,567 --> 01:13:30,692
in short,
it's a matter of fornication.
932
01:13:31,650 --> 01:13:33,983
Men are weak,
that's what they are.
933
01:13:34,150 --> 01:13:37,358
Isn't marriage
than a matter of sex?
934
01:13:37,775 --> 01:13:39,358
Manna, you who are married?
935
01:13:40,317 --> 01:13:42,650
The truth,
he is my best friend.
936
01:13:42,817 --> 01:13:46,442
We have a deep, spiritual connection.
937
01:13:46,608 --> 01:13:47,983
Poor Nima.
938
01:13:48,942 --> 01:13:50,900
He is not at all to be pitied.
939
01:13:51,067 --> 01:13:54,192
And then he has no one else
who to talk to.
940
01:13:54,358 --> 01:13:56,858
Men and women
can't be friends.
941
01:13:57,275 --> 01:13:58,983
Don't get me wrong.
942
01:14:00,025 --> 01:14:02,775
It's good when the sex is good.
943
01:14:04,025 --> 01:14:05,150
Otherwise...
944
01:14:06,108 --> 01:14:07,358
It's clear.
945
01:14:17,358 --> 01:14:18,608
Azin, my dear.
946
01:14:18,983 --> 01:14:20,733
He hates me.
947
01:14:21,608 --> 01:14:23,775
You can't let him beat you.
948
01:14:24,317 --> 01:14:25,317
No ?
949
01:14:26,108 --> 01:14:27,233
If I leave,
950
01:14:28,400 --> 01:14:31,442
he will take my daughter
and it is his mother who will raise him.
951
01:14:32,108 --> 01:14:34,233
I can't let this happen.
952
01:14:40,858 --> 01:14:43,733
So why are you getting married?
again and again?
953
01:14:43,900 --> 01:14:46,858
Maybe she's not looking
the right thing.
954
01:14:47,442 --> 01:14:48,692
No, listen,
955
01:14:48,858 --> 01:14:52,067
even Azin knows the difference
between true love
956
01:14:52,233 --> 01:14:56,025
and something down to earth
like sleeping together.
957
01:14:56,608 --> 01:14:58,775
- “Even Azin”?
- I didn't mean...
958
01:14:58,942 --> 01:15:01,900
Professor Nafissi,
I think about sex a lot.
959
01:15:02,400 --> 01:15:03,442
And...
960
01:15:03,817 --> 01:15:05,275
Isn’t that your case?
961
01:15:05,733 --> 01:15:07,358
Am I the only one crazy?
962
01:15:07,525 --> 01:15:09,192
No, it's completely normal.
963
01:15:09,358 --> 01:15:11,275
You're young and it makes sense to think about it.
964
01:15:12,983 --> 01:15:13,817
Okay, girls,
965
01:15:13,983 --> 01:15:17,525
what dances
would define our society?
966
01:15:17,692 --> 01:15:19,108
Baba Karam.
967
01:15:19,275 --> 01:15:20,067
Do you dance it?
968
01:15:20,233 --> 01:15:22,942
It's easier
than walking stiffly.
969
01:15:23,108 --> 01:15:24,067
One step here, one there...
970
01:15:24,233 --> 01:15:26,900
- So you dance.
- Come to the center!
971
01:15:29,067 --> 01:15:30,817
You'll love showing us!
972
01:15:37,692 --> 01:15:39,692
Sit on your knees
973
01:15:40,067 --> 01:15:42,358
Make some noise, my dear
974
01:15:42,525 --> 01:15:44,317
Move your body gracefully
975
01:15:44,483 --> 01:15:46,900
My heart is overflowing
976
01:15:47,067 --> 01:15:49,233
like a source
977
01:16:39,275 --> 01:16:42,025
Our bodies, ourselves
A book by and for women
978
01:16:42,192 --> 01:16:43,608
What is it?
979
01:16:48,942 --> 01:16:50,608
Does that teach you anything?
980
01:16:51,858 --> 01:16:53,775
It's for girls.
981
01:16:54,233 --> 01:16:56,150
They don't know anything.
982
01:16:57,317 --> 01:16:59,442
Which is not surprising.
983
01:17:00,442 --> 01:17:03,025
This book came out in the 70s.
984
01:17:03,192 --> 01:17:05,358
Even the Americans were embarrassed.
985
01:17:06,233 --> 01:17:09,608
It wasn't your case,
if I remember correctly.
986
01:17:11,983 --> 01:17:16,317
No, but our culture
has always separated sex from love.
987
01:17:18,525 --> 01:17:21,775
Do you separate sex from love?
988
01:17:22,233 --> 01:17:23,692
No, of course not.
989
01:17:28,067 --> 01:17:32,442
You know
that I have a lot of things on my mind.
990
01:17:39,733 --> 01:17:41,858
Can you stop for a moment?
991
01:17:53,900 --> 01:17:56,817
Do you want to talk about your nightmares?
992
01:17:58,192 --> 01:18:00,442
I've been making them for so long
993
01:18:00,608 --> 01:18:02,650
and you want to talk about it now?
994
01:18:04,025 --> 01:18:06,275
Something is eating you from the inside.
995
01:18:06,817 --> 01:18:09,025
It's important to talk about it.
996
01:18:13,192 --> 01:18:16,775
I find it hard to talk about it.
You know it well.
997
01:18:20,067 --> 01:18:22,233
And you won't even remember it.
998
01:18:25,983 --> 01:18:30,275
Look, I don't care if you share
your anxieties with someone else.
999
01:18:30,442 --> 01:18:33,150
You have the right
to talk about it with your friends.
1000
01:18:34,942 --> 01:18:37,233
But I'm afraid of losing you.
1001
01:18:39,108 --> 01:18:41,317
To lose myself?
Because of him?
1002
01:18:41,483 --> 01:18:42,358
Who else?
1003
01:18:42,525 --> 01:18:44,733
For a thousand other reasons.
1004
01:18:45,192 --> 01:18:49,067
Did you know that Azin's husband beat her?
She had a bruise on her face.
1005
01:18:49,400 --> 01:18:52,900
If she divorces, she loses her child.
1006
01:18:53,483 --> 01:18:56,525
There are solutions.
I can find him a lawyer.
1007
01:18:56,692 --> 01:19:00,692
You don't have to look for a solution.
You are so kind,
1008
01:19:00,858 --> 01:19:04,483
you think you solve everything
with good will.
1009
01:19:04,650 --> 01:19:06,400
Of course it can be.
1010
01:19:06,942 --> 01:19:08,692
Diets come and go.
1011
01:19:09,358 --> 01:19:10,858
We are the ones left.
1012
01:19:12,900 --> 01:19:14,525
This is our country.
1013
01:19:15,817 --> 01:19:16,775
I love Iran.
1014
01:19:17,108 --> 01:19:19,067
Me too.
1015
01:19:26,358 --> 01:19:28,358
The Arabian Nights
1016
01:19:28,525 --> 01:19:29,608
Look at this.
1017
01:19:34,108 --> 01:19:35,775
So, is this for you?
1018
01:19:35,942 --> 01:19:36,608
No.
1019
01:19:36,775 --> 01:19:38,317
Wait, wait.
1020
01:19:42,192 --> 01:19:43,900
What a reward!
1021
01:19:44,067 --> 01:19:45,108
Excellent !
1022
01:19:46,067 --> 01:19:48,400
My dear Azar, it’s perfect!
1023
01:19:49,233 --> 01:19:51,608
How did he get to Tehran?
1024
01:19:52,025 --> 01:19:54,358
After the revolution,
1025
01:19:55,233 --> 01:19:58,067
I visited Tehran
to a journalist from NY,
1026
01:19:58,233 --> 01:19:59,567
and he gave it to me.
1027
01:19:59,983 --> 01:20:01,567
And you give it to me?
1028
01:20:02,567 --> 01:20:05,025
I can't think of anyone better than you.
1029
01:20:06,317 --> 01:20:09,525
And I was tidying up
in my library.
1030
01:20:13,192 --> 01:20:14,650
I was just checking
1031
01:20:14,817 --> 01:20:18,025
what I really needed.
1032
01:20:19,108 --> 01:20:20,317
Are you leaving?
1033
01:20:21,067 --> 01:20:23,275
No. Where could I go?
1034
01:20:24,400 --> 01:20:27,067
My mother is getting older.
1035
01:20:28,567 --> 01:20:31,108
Bijan just got a new contract
construction,
1036
01:20:31,275 --> 01:20:32,442
in Isfahan.
1037
01:20:33,900 --> 01:20:35,900
But you think about it.
1038
01:20:36,858 --> 01:20:37,733
Listen, Azar.
1039
01:20:38,775 --> 01:20:40,817
If you want to leave, leave.
1040
01:20:41,817 --> 01:20:43,775
With your family, of course.
1041
01:20:44,525 --> 01:20:47,108
You have the right
to live as you wish.
1042
01:20:49,900 --> 01:20:52,233
But how can I abandon you
1043
01:20:52,483 --> 01:20:54,608
and leave you here without me?
1044
01:20:55,900 --> 01:20:57,067
Boy !
1045
01:20:57,733 --> 01:20:58,733
Come here.
1046
01:20:59,650 --> 01:21:00,358
Yes ?
1047
01:21:01,525 --> 01:21:03,233
It's for a check.
1048
01:21:03,400 --> 01:21:04,775
I'll notify the boss.
1049
01:21:04,942 --> 01:21:05,942
Go for it.
1050
01:21:08,650 --> 01:21:09,692
The militia is here
1051
01:21:10,067 --> 01:21:11,400
for a check.
1052
01:21:11,567 --> 01:21:12,942
If you are not married,
1053
01:21:13,108 --> 01:21:14,692
you shouldn't be together.
1054
01:21:14,858 --> 01:21:17,150
If they ask why,
1055
01:21:17,442 --> 01:21:19,483
you are waiting for an order.
1056
01:21:23,067 --> 01:21:24,650
What are you doing ?
1057
01:21:25,733 --> 01:21:27,192
We didn't do anything wrong!
1058
01:21:27,358 --> 01:21:30,275
I'll call Bijan.
He will explain to them.
1059
01:21:30,442 --> 01:21:34,650
How will this help? They will say
that he does not control his wife.
1060
01:21:34,900 --> 01:21:38,067
I refuse to obey absurd orders.
Don't move.
1061
01:21:40,608 --> 01:21:44,233
If you don't want to pay the bill,
1062
01:21:45,442 --> 01:21:46,858
find something else.
1063
01:22:05,608 --> 01:22:07,983
Nassrin, leave the dishes,
1064
01:22:08,150 --> 01:22:09,483
come sit down.
1065
01:22:15,317 --> 01:22:16,942
I need to talk to you.
1066
01:22:17,108 --> 01:22:18,400
Sit down.
1067
01:22:18,567 --> 01:22:19,858
It's good.
1068
01:22:20,233 --> 01:22:21,525
Is it important?
1069
01:22:24,817 --> 01:22:27,525
My sister lives in England with her husband.
1070
01:22:29,442 --> 01:22:31,483
I will live with them.
1071
01:22:34,150 --> 01:22:35,358
I'm leaving.
1072
01:22:35,692 --> 01:22:37,108
I'm leaving Iran.
1073
01:22:40,192 --> 01:22:41,525
Just like that.
1074
01:22:43,233 --> 01:22:44,692
How are you leaving?
1075
01:22:45,233 --> 01:22:46,525
With smugglers.
1076
01:22:49,025 --> 01:22:50,400
I no longer have a passport,
1077
01:22:51,192 --> 01:22:52,900
because of the prison.
1078
01:22:53,650 --> 01:22:56,775
Smugglers? Alone ?
How will you do it?
1079
01:22:57,442 --> 01:22:59,983
Once in Türkiye,
my brother-in-law will come pick me up.
1080
01:23:06,400 --> 01:23:08,567
Prison, war...
1081
01:23:10,442 --> 01:23:12,608
This period was hard for me.
1082
01:23:14,192 --> 01:23:16,692
I even... I had a boyfriend.
1083
01:23:17,650 --> 01:23:19,650
It didn't help.
1084
01:23:25,692 --> 01:23:27,317
Does this surprise you?
1085
01:23:29,608 --> 01:23:31,733
In any case, it didn't work.
1086
01:23:31,900 --> 01:23:33,525
And I wanted to be alone.
1087
01:23:34,067 --> 01:23:36,900
I have some problems,
from prison.
1088
01:23:37,858 --> 01:23:38,900
My mother and I
1089
01:23:39,067 --> 01:23:42,317
think I will be better
in England.
1090
01:23:44,525 --> 01:23:46,983
Is that why you broke up?
1091
01:23:47,858 --> 01:23:48,817
Yes.
1092
01:23:49,150 --> 01:23:51,192
Actually, no.
1093
01:23:52,692 --> 01:23:54,400
He's a good man.
1094
01:23:55,400 --> 01:23:57,025
An intellectual.
1095
01:23:57,775 --> 01:24:01,150
He reads Derrida
and watch Kiarostami films
1096
01:24:01,317 --> 01:24:02,650
and Bergman.
1097
01:24:04,108 --> 01:24:07,067
But I didn't like
his perception of women.
1098
01:24:07,817 --> 01:24:10,150
He wasn't unpleasant.
1099
01:24:10,692 --> 01:24:13,192
I saw how he looked at them.
1100
01:24:15,442 --> 01:24:16,900
He didn't touch me.
1101
01:24:17,358 --> 01:24:18,483
He said
1102
01:24:19,233 --> 01:24:21,275
that it was out of respect.
1103
01:24:23,025 --> 01:24:25,358
Some women
are for marriage
1104
01:24:26,067 --> 01:24:27,983
and others just for sex.
1105
01:24:30,108 --> 01:24:31,567
So you leave.
1106
01:24:44,442 --> 01:24:46,358
I am 35 years old,
1107
01:24:47,025 --> 01:24:48,983
and I don't know love.
1108
01:24:59,275 --> 01:25:02,025
After a week without news,
Thank God yesterday,
1109
01:25:02,192 --> 01:25:05,275
his father told me
that she had reached the border,
1110
01:25:05,442 --> 01:25:07,483
two days ago.
1111
01:25:08,442 --> 01:25:12,900
The smugglers will take him across
the mountains next week.
1112
01:25:13,358 --> 01:25:14,608
How ?
1113
01:25:14,775 --> 01:25:16,567
On the back of a mule?
1114
01:25:16,733 --> 01:25:19,108
Like Sally Field
in Never without my daughter?
1115
01:25:20,150 --> 01:25:21,900
Do you find that funny?
1116
01:25:22,650 --> 01:25:24,483
Sorry, I didn't think about it.
1117
01:25:24,650 --> 01:25:26,275
So don't say anything.
1118
01:25:26,900 --> 01:25:29,858
It's sometimes difficult
to know how to react.
1119
01:25:30,942 --> 01:25:32,483
But why?
1120
01:25:33,358 --> 01:25:36,900
We all know why,
but why now?
1121
01:25:37,567 --> 01:25:39,400
It was the right time.
1122
01:25:40,775 --> 01:25:43,400
She could have said goodbye to us.
1123
01:25:43,567 --> 01:25:45,983
It's too painful sometimes.
1124
01:25:47,192 --> 01:25:49,775
Anyway,
this seminar will end.
1125
01:25:51,317 --> 01:25:53,317
Nassrin understood first
your message.
1126
01:25:53,817 --> 01:25:57,400
The one who tells us
that we should all leave.
1127
01:25:57,983 --> 01:25:58,817
Me ?
1128
01:25:59,858 --> 01:26:02,150
I never said that.
1129
01:26:02,317 --> 01:26:03,858
It's not worth it.
1130
01:26:04,025 --> 01:26:05,733
Leave Iran,
1131
01:26:06,483 --> 01:26:07,775
it was implied.
1132
01:26:07,942 --> 01:26:11,608
Yassi! Don't make the teacher say
what she didn't say.
1133
01:26:12,192 --> 01:26:14,775
If you feel trapped, say so.
1134
01:26:14,942 --> 01:26:17,067
I feel like I'm in a cage.
It's good ?
1135
01:26:17,233 --> 01:26:20,317
Why take it out on others?
The teacher is not responsible.
1136
01:26:21,608 --> 01:26:24,567
This revolution
is not what we wanted.
1137
01:26:24,900 --> 01:26:27,900
Everyone must decide for themselves.
1138
01:26:28,067 --> 01:26:30,483
According to the example
that you gave us,
1139
01:26:30,650 --> 01:26:32,608
there is no point in staying here.
1140
01:26:32,775 --> 01:26:35,817
We have to leave
if we want to accomplish something.
1141
01:26:35,983 --> 01:26:37,233
I'm still here,
1142
01:26:38,608 --> 01:26:40,983
I'm sorry
if I gave you the impression that...
1143
01:26:41,150 --> 01:26:42,733
It's not fair.
1144
01:26:42,900 --> 01:26:45,317
It's true, we all think so.
1145
01:26:45,483 --> 01:26:46,817
It's true.
1146
01:26:46,983 --> 01:26:48,900
You stopped teaching.
1147
01:26:49,067 --> 01:26:50,608
And did this seminar.
1148
01:26:50,775 --> 01:26:51,900
Girls!
1149
01:26:53,192 --> 01:26:55,233
Really, you are exaggerating!
1150
01:26:58,858 --> 01:27:01,317
No, I'm glad you're talking.
1151
01:27:03,275 --> 01:27:04,442
The truth,
1152
01:27:05,400 --> 01:27:07,233
It’s because I think about it too.
1153
01:27:09,275 --> 01:27:10,317
But
1154
01:27:10,900 --> 01:27:12,358
my life is here.
1155
01:27:12,858 --> 01:27:14,358
Bijan's work is here.
1156
01:27:14,525 --> 01:27:16,233
My mother is getting older.
1157
01:27:17,317 --> 01:27:20,942
For years,
I have horrible nightmares.
1158
01:27:22,483 --> 01:27:24,567
I know you do too.
1159
01:27:27,317 --> 01:27:29,900
I just want to feel good.
1160
01:27:30,692 --> 01:27:33,067
But then what is feeling good?
1161
01:27:34,483 --> 01:27:37,275
That would mean we have to
be content with this life?
1162
01:27:39,108 --> 01:27:41,775
I got used to it
to my dizziness and nausea.
1163
01:27:43,483 --> 01:27:46,275
But if I didn't feel anything,
what kind of human would I be?
1164
01:27:47,483 --> 01:27:49,858
And if these feelings persist,
1165
01:27:50,775 --> 01:27:52,567
how can I stay here?
1166
01:28:38,775 --> 01:28:41,733
- What are you doing ?
- Where are the nuts?
1167
01:28:42,400 --> 01:28:45,150
What did you do with the nuts?
Did you eat them?
1168
01:28:46,900 --> 01:28:48,567
Where are the nuts?
1169
01:28:48,733 --> 01:28:50,108
Here. They are there.
1170
01:29:06,858 --> 01:29:07,692
Bijan...
1171
01:29:17,108 --> 01:29:18,442
Say something.
1172
01:29:19,233 --> 01:29:20,525
Say what?
1173
01:29:21,942 --> 01:29:24,442
I don't know,
say something.
1174
01:29:25,275 --> 01:29:26,942
Say you want to leave.
1175
01:29:27,108 --> 01:29:28,483
It'll work out.
1176
01:29:28,817 --> 01:29:30,817
We won't live forever.
1177
01:29:31,150 --> 01:29:33,108
The fact of continuing
to live here represents...
1178
01:29:33,275 --> 01:29:34,733
What does it represent?
1179
01:29:36,192 --> 01:29:40,442
I don't want to represent anything.
I just want to live better.
1180
01:29:40,608 --> 01:29:42,942
- You don't live?
- Of course not!
1181
01:29:43,358 --> 01:29:44,733
Don't you see?
1182
01:29:45,983 --> 01:29:48,442
I am transparent.
I don't exist!
1183
01:29:48,775 --> 01:29:50,025
But what are you talking about?
1184
01:29:50,192 --> 01:29:53,150
Bijan, they took everything from me.
1185
01:29:53,317 --> 01:29:54,525
All !
1186
01:29:57,733 --> 01:29:58,650
Wait!
1187
01:30:00,025 --> 01:30:01,483
Listen to me.
1188
01:30:04,817 --> 01:30:06,567
Look, it's me.
1189
01:30:07,108 --> 01:30:08,150
It's you.
1190
01:30:09,567 --> 01:30:11,567
We are real.
1191
01:30:12,900 --> 01:30:14,525
The only thing that's real.
1192
01:30:16,442 --> 01:30:19,483
I built this house
for our family.
1193
01:30:19,650 --> 01:30:21,525
No one will reach us here.
1194
01:30:21,692 --> 01:30:23,358
Yes, and it's wonderful.
1195
01:30:23,525 --> 01:30:25,983
But what is happening outside?
1196
01:30:26,983 --> 01:30:30,817
You want to raise your daughter, your Negar,
in this country in ruins?
1197
01:30:32,942 --> 01:30:36,233
What will Dara think of women?
What kind of man will he be?
1198
01:30:36,400 --> 01:30:39,608
Not like that, he's my son,
I'm not like them.
1199
01:30:39,775 --> 01:30:42,192
Bijan, it’s the atmosphere here!
1200
01:30:43,317 --> 01:30:46,442
These children don't know anything else.
1201
01:30:47,442 --> 01:30:50,067
It's hard for you
to leave your house,
1202
01:30:50,233 --> 01:30:52,608
your life, your work, your family.
I know it.
1203
01:30:53,275 --> 01:30:55,108
But we are family
1204
01:30:56,817 --> 01:30:59,275
and I must act for all of us.
1205
01:31:48,275 --> 01:31:50,442
The children are at school.
Rest.
1206
01:31:50,608 --> 01:31:52,983
Call if you want anything.
I love you, B.
1207
01:32:04,775 --> 01:32:06,650
Manna was right, right?
1208
01:32:10,317 --> 01:32:12,942
Will you all end up leaving?
1209
01:32:17,108 --> 01:32:18,233
And you ?
1210
01:32:18,900 --> 01:32:19,858
Me ?
1211
01:32:21,067 --> 01:32:22,108
Never.
1212
01:32:24,025 --> 01:32:25,650
Maybe I'm stubborn.
1213
01:32:32,067 --> 01:32:35,275
All these years,
I really liked your classes.
1214
01:32:36,067 --> 01:32:38,525
I enjoyed every moment.
1215
01:32:39,442 --> 01:32:41,775
Even if they took me
for an old maid.
1216
01:32:41,942 --> 01:32:45,233
- They didn't think...
- Of course it is.
1217
01:32:46,817 --> 01:32:48,442
But I didn't care.
1218
01:32:49,275 --> 01:32:53,067
I was veiled
long before they forced us to.
1219
01:32:53,900 --> 01:32:56,525
I was a believer. A devotee.
1220
01:32:57,983 --> 01:32:59,858
I was proud of it.
1221
01:33:03,400 --> 01:33:05,067
Now I don't know anymore.
1222
01:33:17,150 --> 01:33:19,025
Don't cry.
1223
01:33:37,358 --> 01:33:40,900
"Falling in love again"
Mohammad Khatami for president
1224
01:33:48,150 --> 01:33:50,233
The Golden Cup
1225
01:33:57,608 --> 01:33:59,608
“Falling in love again.”
1226
01:34:00,567 --> 01:34:02,025
Incredible...
1227
01:34:03,942 --> 01:34:06,858
If they no longer have faith in the future,
they will not survive.
1228
01:34:07,025 --> 01:34:08,275
They will survive,
1229
01:34:08,692 --> 01:34:10,400
but they won't want to stay.
1230
01:34:12,025 --> 01:34:13,608
These are still my problems.
1231
01:34:13,983 --> 01:34:16,650
I'm counting on you
to keep me informed.
1232
01:34:17,358 --> 01:34:19,233
I won't, my friend.
1233
01:34:20,650 --> 01:34:23,858
Call it self-defense,
cowardice,
1234
01:34:24,025 --> 01:34:26,400
a lack of courage.
Whatever you want.
1235
01:34:27,317 --> 01:34:29,275
I don't want to stay in touch
1236
01:34:29,608 --> 01:34:32,192
with someone
who had the courage to leave.
1237
01:34:32,692 --> 01:34:34,858
But it was you who encouraged me.
1238
01:34:35,525 --> 01:34:37,858
Why cut ties?
1239
01:34:38,442 --> 01:34:40,483
Because these are my rules.
1240
01:34:41,400 --> 01:34:44,108
Out of sight, out of mind.
1241
01:34:44,275 --> 01:34:45,608
Oh my God...
1242
01:34:46,067 --> 01:34:49,525
What stupid rules.
A series of photos.
1243
01:34:51,525 --> 01:34:53,442
Like most rules.
1244
01:34:56,567 --> 01:34:58,483
Don't get angry.
1245
01:35:00,192 --> 01:35:03,150
You will put me in the book
that you will write.
1246
01:35:04,192 --> 01:35:06,525
Who said I would write about myself?
1247
01:35:06,692 --> 01:35:08,942
I want to write about Jane Austen.
1248
01:35:10,025 --> 01:35:12,150
And you believe you can do it
1249
01:35:12,983 --> 01:35:15,358
not to mention us?
1250
01:35:17,817 --> 01:35:20,358
Jane Austen has nothing to do with us.
1251
01:35:20,525 --> 01:35:24,025
No one can write
your story apart from you.
1252
01:35:24,608 --> 01:35:27,817
You have to leave, live
and write your own story.
1253
01:35:29,067 --> 01:35:30,900
You will leave Iran,
1254
01:35:31,358 --> 01:35:34,025
but Iran will never leave you.
1255
01:36:49,650 --> 01:36:51,608
It's nothing Bijan, sleep.
1256
01:37:09,525 --> 01:37:12,067
- Mom...
- Hello, Negar, my dear.
1257
01:37:21,275 --> 01:37:22,858
My dear fellow citizens.
1258
01:37:23,525 --> 01:37:24,858
In this conflict,
1259
01:37:25,025 --> 01:37:27,775
America opposes
to an enemy who despises
1260
01:37:27,942 --> 01:37:31,483
the Geneva Conventions,
or the rules of morality.
1261
01:37:32,775 --> 01:37:36,525
Saddam Hussein hid his troops
and equipment in civilian areas...
1262
01:37:52,775 --> 01:37:56,400
Success guaranteed!
We love you. Bijan, Negar, Dara
1263
01:38:08,900 --> 01:38:12,108
Read Lolita in Tehran
A literary memoir
1264
01:41:29,817 --> 01:41:33,733
In memory of the producer
MICHAEL SHARFSHTEIN