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Please! Let me in! Let me in!

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They lied to us! They lied to us!

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They lied to us!

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Let me in!

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Azar Nafisi.
Born in Tehran, 1948.

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Provisional Revolutionary
and Islamic Government of Iran

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ENTRY 03 AUG 1979

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Thank you.

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Next.

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I did my PhD there, in literature.

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in literature.

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English literature.

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What's this?

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A novel.

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It’s for a course at the university.

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I’m going to teach it.

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That’s why my husband
and I came back.

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My husband is a civil engineer.

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A bit gentler, please.

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Excuse me?

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Go.

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My heart, my love,

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- My life
- Mom, I dore you.

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- You’re so beautiful.
- Bijan...

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Hello.

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You can kiss now!

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Welcome.

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- Shall we?
- Let’s go. We’re in the way.

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Faculty of Letters and Humanities

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Death to America

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Hello.

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Professor Nafisi.

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Mr. Bahri.

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Good morning.

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How’s your English doing?

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Good.

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Really?

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Yes. Very observant. Very sensitive.

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Congrats, I’m impressed.

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Take your seat.
Class will start soon.

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Yes, of course.

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Thank you.

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Professor, I don’t understand.

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How can you say Gatsby’s
in love with Daisy?

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Clearly, he’s in love
with the green dollars.

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Daisy is just a symbol, that’s all.

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What use is love
in today’s world?

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We believe only in divine, holy love,
nothing else.

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Right, so why did you
make a revolution?

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Because we could...

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I think I didn’t understand.

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It means we should doubt
the prohibition of adultery!

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You’re saying change
is always bad?

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It’s not funny.

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If laws are broken
while writing a story,

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penalties must be invoked!

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What’s funny about that?

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He’s not referring to you, professor.
Sorry.

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Some things should be
completely ignored.

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You won’t find a virtuous woman
in this entire story.

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And this is supposed to be a role model
for our innocent, modest sisters.

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The veil, you just want us
to wear a veil.

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Try it.

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What's the problem?

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Listen, I don’t like discussing
here what I wear.

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What you like doesn’t matter, because
soon it will be mandatory for all women.

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How come only Nyazi
talks about morality?

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He has no right to do so at all!

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Look...

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Forget it, no need to read
from the paper. It’s not worth it.

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I have enough evidence.

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Every page of this book
shows how we were raped

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by the Big Satan.

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"They seek to deceive Allah and those
who have faith,

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yet they deceive no one but themselves,
but are not aware"

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The only interesting person in this story

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is the defeated, spineless Mr. Wilson

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who killed Gatsby.

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And even that was God’s doing.

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Not everything is God’s doing.

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Do you really believe God is
meddling with our lives?

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How can you use such a word?
"Meddling"?

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It’s not meddling.
God is observing our lives.

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Declare this book banned!

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You came and changed all the laws!
What law are you talking about?

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- Back off.
- I won’t back off!

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- Your brain is rotten!
- My brain is rotten?

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- Exactly!
- Shame on you!

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- They’re all rotten here!
- They want to close us down! Come out!

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Let's go.

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Freedom is our right!

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Neither East, nor West!
Islamic university!

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Samad is our teacher!
His way is our way!

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Freedom is our right!

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Did you see that?

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Nassrin! Mahtab!

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Let go! I’m not going with you!

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Ma’am! Let’s go! Come this way!
This way.

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Nassrin! Mahtab!

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Professor Nafisi!

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There was nothing you could do.

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That’s one of my students!
She’s only seventeen!

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Come in, come in!

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- Quickly, quickly!
- Thanks Mohssen.

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Stay away from the windows!

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Nassiri Cafe

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Thanks.

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I’m Azar. Nafisi.

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I know you.

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Aren’t you in the drama department?

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I was.

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Oh...

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The play I chose wasn’t approved.

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So the writer must
have been immoral…

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No, this time the objection
came from the leftists.

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Obviously, you must
study revolutionary works.

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If that was so,
there’d be something to discuss.

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But I told them clearly,

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my syllabus was non-negotiable.

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Oh là là…

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I think we can go.

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What will you do now
If you won’t teach anymore?

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I don’t know.

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Perhaps start the novel I
always wanted to write,

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see what happens next
or do nothing at all.

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You tell me what to do...

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The tension at our border
with Iraq continues.

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Tehran University continues
to witness student violence..

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The continuous radical activity
on the campus

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led to the arrest of over 40 students

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However, the security forces refrained
from using force

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against the agitators...

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I called their parents.
I couldn’t reach anyone.

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They were probably taken to Evin prison.

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I must go there.

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Don't.

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I’m serious.

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Their families are there.

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There’s nothing you can do.

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You’ll just be on their radar.

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Aren’t I already?

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Bijan...

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Stop! Stop hitting me!

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That hurts!

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Oh God! Stop!

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Mama, please! Where are you?

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They’re killing me!

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Enough, stop!

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Emamzadeh.

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Rahmati.

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Rahimi.

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Don’t worry, be strong.

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Go.

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Go.

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{\an8}Evin House of Detention

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Following a directive from our beloved
supreme leader Imam Khomeini,

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the Parliament approved and passed
the Islamic Hijab Law,

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making it compulsory for women

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from the age of 9 to wear
the Hijab in public,

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including all government institutions,
work places,

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universities, schools...

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Purify the curriculum
Administrative Revolution

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Ma’am!

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Your ID, please.

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You know you can’t go in like this.

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I’ve been going in "like this"
ever since I started teaching here.

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Now you must cover your hair.

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I’m authorized to stop
any woman without a hijab.

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I’m not "any woman," I’m a specific woman.

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A professor at this university.

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It’s a written order from
the university president.

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No woman can enter the
university without a hijab.

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Ma’am...

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You know what’ll happen to me
if you go in like this?

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As far as I know, we’re each
responsible for our own actions, no?

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So, excuse me.

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You’re kidding.

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Ma’am, stop!

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Forget it, man!

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Ma’am!

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Ma’am!

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The adulterous whore Nafisi
should be expelled

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Professor Nafisi?

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I’m sorry.

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The university president wants
to talk to you.

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I want you to know
that I sided with you.

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Why?

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Because women’s role is essential
to the success of the Islamic Republic.

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Our enemies within
and without must see

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that men and women here are united.

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And...

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because of the books we read.

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Wait, professor.

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Please.

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The survival of this revolution
is in danger...

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Mr. Bahri.

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My grandmother was the most
devout Muslim I’ve ever known.

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She always did
the dawn prayer on time.

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She wore the veil because
she was a believer,

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not as a symbol.

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Religion and State
are not the same.

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Not to her,

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not to me.

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Tell that to the president
of your university.

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Hello.

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Where to?

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I have a meeting
with the university president.

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What are you wearing underneath?

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Almost nothing.

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Why is that any business of yours?

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Rub the muck off your face.

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There’s nothing on my face
and I never put "muck" on.

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There’s something.

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- Ma’am, that hurts.
- Don’t talk back!

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I’ll file a complaint against you.

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Do whatever you damn want.

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Go.

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Fourth floor!

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Fourth floor!

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Did you imagine this could happen?

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No, I didn’t.

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But I should have.

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What’ll we do now?

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We’ll go to sleep and tomorrow
we’ll see what can be done.

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Coming?

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Yes, a bit later...

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Mahtab...

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Eight members of the reactionary
Forghan group were executed.

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{\an8}Mahtab Rahimi.

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Hello.

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I don’t know why I decided to do this.

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It’s too risky.

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I’m putting all the girls in danger.

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I should cancel it.

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Right?

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You can’t.

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What if someone finds out?

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What if someone reports us?

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My dear, they all know

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this is forbidden and dangerous.

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But just like you, they like the risk.

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That’s exactly what scares me.

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These women trust your courage.

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Always have.

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Exactly like when you
taught them at the university.

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What if they don’t show up?

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They will.

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Every Thursday.

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Even if stones fall from the sky.

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Trust me.

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So now I’ve reached the point
where I should trust you?

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Thank you.

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00:28:33,821 --> 00:28:35,155
I’m glad you called.

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00:28:37,030 --> 00:28:38,280
I’m glad you answered.

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Now go sleep for a while
before they arrive.

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Sleep, I wish...

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- Bless you.
-Talk soon.

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Feeling better?

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00:28:57,655 --> 00:28:58,655
Yes.

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Don’t worry.

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Negar! Dara!

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- Want me to stay?
- Hurry up!

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No.

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I promised
there’d be no men in the house...

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I’m sure it will be wonderful.

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Listen to your grandma!

267
00:29:23,363 --> 00:29:27,030
Negar, remember not to read
too fast the poem we learned.

268
00:29:28,238 --> 00:29:29,446
Thank you, mom.

269
00:29:29,613 --> 00:29:30,821
Dara, take your schoolbag.

270
00:29:32,113 --> 00:29:33,613
Azar dear, please be very careful.

271
00:29:33,696 --> 00:29:35,696
Don’t worry.

272
00:29:36,321 --> 00:29:38,155
Dara, eat your apple.

273
00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:39,155
OK, Mama.

274
00:29:39,238 --> 00:29:41,321
Bijan, I’m sure you’ll get the project.

275
00:29:45,446 --> 00:29:53,530
Following requests from the public and
the government’s efforts,

276
00:29:53,905 --> 00:29:54,780
the price of milk…

277
00:29:55,488 --> 00:29:56,488
Thank you.

278
00:29:58,571 --> 00:29:59,571
There you go, Dad.

279
00:30:00,113 --> 00:30:00,863
Thank you.

280
00:30:01,113 --> 00:30:02,155
I should go.

281
00:30:03,030 --> 00:30:04,696
There won’t be any men there, right?

282
00:30:05,155 --> 00:30:08,446
Mahshid and I are translating Islamic
texts into English.

283
00:30:08,946 --> 00:30:10,780
We don’t need men for that.

284
00:30:11,238 --> 00:30:12,196
Take care.

285
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:13,696
Of course. Bye.

286
00:30:13,780 --> 00:30:14,655
Bye.

287
00:30:21,071 --> 00:30:22,113
She’s used to your absence.

288
00:30:24,946 --> 00:30:25,946
She doesn’t cry anymore.

289
00:30:27,988 --> 00:30:29,780
Wouldn’t you like a mother who
stays home with you?

290
00:30:29,863 --> 00:30:30,863
Enough, Reza!

291
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:35,571
Mama will be back soon.

292
00:30:41,321 --> 00:30:43,405
I still think it’s not fair.

293
00:30:43,571 --> 00:30:44,946
Life isn’t fair.

294
00:30:47,988 --> 00:30:50,696
Maybe you’re right. This isn’t fair.

295
00:30:51,071 --> 00:30:52,113
What? No.

296
00:30:53,155 --> 00:30:55,280
How else will you become
the next Forough Farrokhzad?

297
00:30:56,071 --> 00:30:59,238
"Everybody knows that you and I

298
00:30:59,405 --> 00:31:03,405
looked through the oblique
crack of the wall

299
00:31:03,780 --> 00:31:04,696
and saw the garden."

300
00:31:05,446 --> 00:31:06,655
and saw the garden."

301
00:31:24,030 --> 00:31:25,280
Hello Mahshid!

302
00:31:26,405 --> 00:31:27,405
Hello.

303
00:31:29,571 --> 00:31:30,571
Hello ma’am.

304
00:31:30,821 --> 00:31:31,655
Hello.

305
00:31:36,071 --> 00:31:37,321
Thanks for buying the flowers.

306
00:31:37,488 --> 00:31:38,488
Hello.

307
00:31:39,155 --> 00:31:40,155
I’m so happy to see you.

308
00:31:40,446 --> 00:31:45,155
-Me too. What’s up with you?
-Good.

309
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,071
-It’s apartment three, right?
-Yes.

310
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:51,405
Are we the first ones here?

311
00:31:51,696 --> 00:31:52,946
I don’t know, why?

312
00:31:54,405 --> 00:31:55,946
Do you know who else is coming?

313
00:31:56,946 --> 00:31:57,905
Azin too?

314
00:31:57,988 --> 00:31:59,321
You don’t like her?

315
00:31:59,571 --> 00:32:01,905
Not really.
I hope she’s not invited.

316
00:32:02,155 --> 00:32:05,696
But she’s cool!
She’s been married three times!

317
00:32:05,780 --> 00:32:07,363
We don’t even have a boyfriend.

318
00:32:07,905 --> 00:32:09,530
They’re beautiful. Lovely.

319
00:32:09,946 --> 00:32:11,738
Welcome, come in.

320
00:32:13,488 --> 00:32:15,988
Did you find the place easily?

321
00:32:17,821 --> 00:32:18,655
Please.

322
00:32:19,988 --> 00:32:21,321
Look at the mountains.

323
00:32:21,613 --> 00:32:22,571
Beautiful. Sublime.

324
00:32:23,363 --> 00:32:25,196
- My husband’s at work. Feel at ease.
- Thank you.

325
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:25,988
Thank you.

326
00:32:33,905 --> 00:32:36,613
Nassrin dear, welcome.

327
00:32:38,155 --> 00:32:40,446
You remember Mahshid.
Yassi is here too.

328
00:32:41,155 --> 00:32:43,238
Your mother let us in.

329
00:32:43,363 --> 00:32:45,113
Welcome.

330
00:32:45,321 --> 00:32:47,196
These are from Nima and me.

331
00:32:47,488 --> 00:32:49,655
He said, “you ladies are very fortunate.”

332
00:32:49,780 --> 00:32:51,196
- How is he?
- Good.

333
00:33:07,946 --> 00:33:08,905
Azin, my dear.

334
00:33:08,988 --> 00:33:09,988
Am I late?

335
00:33:10,071 --> 00:33:12,113
- No, dear.
- No, I’m not late.

336
00:33:23,863 --> 00:33:25,321
Come in, welcome.

337
00:33:26,821 --> 00:33:27,863
Girls...

338
00:33:28,113 --> 00:33:30,863
this is Sanaz, one of my best
students at Allameh University.

339
00:33:31,446 --> 00:33:32,738
Hello.

340
00:33:32,821 --> 00:33:33,946
- Nice to meet you.
- Have a seat.

341
00:33:36,446 --> 00:33:37,446
Alright.

342
00:33:38,946 --> 00:33:42,780
I was really worried that I might
have gotten you into trouble.

343
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:47,446
I hope your families don’t mind
that you’re here now.

344
00:36:16,863 --> 00:36:18,571
"Something" was already in here...

345
00:36:57,030 --> 00:36:58,196
We’re all together.

346
00:37:44,988 --> 00:37:46,280
Okay, so...

347
00:37:46,905 --> 00:37:49,905
this "morality teacher" draws
two columns on the blackboard.

348
00:37:50,571 --> 00:37:54,280
"Muslim girl" on one side
and "Christian girl" on the other.

349
00:37:55,196 --> 00:37:57,905
Then he asks,
what’s the difference between them?

350
00:37:58,613 --> 00:38:02,030
"One is a virgin, clean and pure,

351
00:38:02,155 --> 00:38:04,405
who keeps herself only for her husband.

352
00:38:04,696 --> 00:38:06,863
She is powerful because she’s modest."

353
00:38:07,238 --> 00:38:10,655
Of course, modesty gives you a certain
amount of power.

354
00:38:10,988 --> 00:38:12,571
- Like...
- Like what?

355
00:38:13,113 --> 00:38:15,488
Not being a whore
who wears nail polish and sneakers?

356
00:38:15,821 --> 00:38:17,321
No, no, I didn’t mean it like that…

357
00:38:18,071 --> 00:38:19,155
I meant a person who is reserved.

358
00:38:22,363 --> 00:38:23,363
Hello, Sanaz dear,

359
00:38:23,446 --> 00:38:24,446
Hello.

360
00:38:25,488 --> 00:38:29,738
Sorry I’m late again. My brother insisted
on coming with me and then…

361
00:38:29,905 --> 00:38:31,321
We missed you last week.

362
00:38:34,363 --> 00:38:35,738
- Did something happen?
- No.

363
00:38:50,530 --> 00:38:51,530
Hello.

364
00:38:52,071 --> 00:38:53,863
We missed you. Where were you?

365
00:38:54,905 --> 00:38:55,905
Are you Okay?

366
00:38:56,613 --> 00:38:57,405
Yes.

367
00:38:58,905 --> 00:39:00,863
- Thanks.
- Girls, Sanaz brought us sweets.

368
00:39:02,696 --> 00:39:05,280
Wow, they’re so "poshlost"...

369
00:39:05,821 --> 00:39:07,196
That’s why you got them, right?

370
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:08,780
Since we’re reading Lolita, you wanted...

371
00:39:09,030 --> 00:39:10,780
These are so good!

372
00:39:11,405 --> 00:39:12,446
They’re great, but...

373
00:39:12,530 --> 00:39:13,530
Thank you.

374
00:39:13,738 --> 00:39:15,321
Okay, girls.

375
00:39:38,030 --> 00:39:39,446
Not all.

376
00:39:52,905 --> 00:39:55,655
I, Sanaz Moghadam, confess to having
an illegitimate relationship with a man.

377
00:39:55,738 --> 00:39:58,738
I broke Islamic law, betrayed my
family’s honor and my self respect.

378
00:41:03,321 --> 00:41:05,696
How do you escape the guilt?

379
00:41:10,863 --> 00:41:13,238
They should be ashamed, not us.

380
00:41:14,155 --> 00:41:15,196
How does that help?

381
00:41:16,613 --> 00:41:20,363
They force you to confess to an offense
You didn’t commit and say you’ve sinned.

382
00:41:20,821 --> 00:41:22,446
But you haven’t sinned, Sanaz.

383
00:41:23,321 --> 00:41:26,863
Repeat something a thousand times
and it starts to replace the truth.

384
00:41:28,613 --> 00:41:30,196
Otherwise, why did they arrest you?

385
00:41:31,030 --> 00:41:32,738
"Who were you with?
Who were those men?"

386
00:41:39,405 --> 00:41:42,780
"You didn’t drink alcohol?
What were you wearing?"

387
00:41:43,571 --> 00:41:44,988
But they found nothing?

388
00:41:46,030 --> 00:41:47,696
There was nothing to find.

389
00:41:49,780 --> 00:41:52,696
So we  accused of “Western
cultural invasion”.

390
00:41:53,405 --> 00:41:54,446
And they’re right.

391
00:41:54,946 --> 00:41:57,738
There’s no such thing
as a "thought crime."

392
00:41:58,863 --> 00:41:59,863
Of course there is.

393
00:42:04,571 --> 00:42:07,238
Even if I didn’t commit a real crime,

394
00:42:11,196 --> 00:42:15,030
I betrayed myself by confessing.
I betrayed us all.

395
00:42:17,613 --> 00:42:18,905
I confessed.

396
00:42:22,613 --> 00:42:23,613
I signed.

397
00:42:29,238 --> 00:42:30,905
Sanaz left this behind.

398
00:42:34,196 --> 00:42:36,905
They asked if they were Lolita.

399
00:42:38,196 --> 00:42:39,196
And you said?

400
00:42:41,571 --> 00:42:44,155
That she’s a lonely, defenseless girl,

401
00:42:45,321 --> 00:42:48,655
who endures rape because of a crazy adult
obsessed with his own past,

402
00:42:48,738 --> 00:42:51,030
she loses her autonomy,
her future, her very self.

403
00:42:52,488 --> 00:42:55,280
That’s precisely what the "bearded guy"
did to us here.

404
00:42:57,321 --> 00:43:00,196
Novels are not interpretations
of our personal lives.

405
00:43:00,488 --> 00:43:02,738
Why not? Of course they are.

406
00:43:04,155 --> 00:43:05,863
Very often they’re exactly the same.

407
00:43:12,071 --> 00:43:13,113
Those were the days.

408
00:43:15,946 --> 00:43:17,738
I can’t take hope away from them.

409
00:43:19,321 --> 00:43:20,321
I know.

410
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:36,821
Wow!

411
00:43:39,321 --> 00:43:40,446
Keep it.

412
00:43:41,613 --> 00:43:43,238
Show it to your girls.

413
00:43:43,821 --> 00:43:46,113
Where did you get this?

414
00:43:47,155 --> 00:43:48,196
I’ve had it for some time.

415
00:43:49,113 --> 00:43:50,488
Bought it here.

416
00:43:50,863 --> 00:43:52,530
Mr. Hamid always knew what I liked.

417
00:43:54,696 --> 00:43:57,988
He once told me had
he known me before,

418
00:43:58,530 --> 00:44:01,738
he wouldn’t have sold his last copy
of Bunuel’s autobiography.

419
00:44:02,446 --> 00:44:03,488
Sold it to me.

420
00:44:04,071 --> 00:44:06,196
What a piece of work you are...

421
00:44:07,238 --> 00:44:12,613
As far as I recall, somebody cleaned out
an entire shelf of Henry James...

422
00:44:13,530 --> 00:44:14,613
But my dear...

423
00:44:15,321 --> 00:44:17,946
you could have at least left me
The Golden Bowl.

424
00:44:19,238 --> 00:44:21,363
Although nobody gets through
the whole book,

425
00:44:21,738 --> 00:44:22,613
not even me...

426
00:44:24,363 --> 00:44:26,571
Anyone who can’t make it through
The Golden Bowl

427
00:44:26,613 --> 00:44:28,238
doesn’t deserve to own it...

428
00:45:27,530 --> 00:45:29,238
You know what it is with my girls?

429
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:32,905
They have nothing to remember.

430
00:45:34,363 --> 00:45:35,780
As adults, anyway.

431
00:45:37,405 --> 00:45:39,530
No stroll in the park
with their lover.

432
00:45:40,571 --> 00:45:44,946
No passionate phone calls
into the night

433
00:45:46,946 --> 00:45:49,488
No stolen kisses.

434
00:46:31,155 --> 00:46:32,488
I have to go.

435
00:46:33,113 --> 00:46:34,113
Really?

436
00:47:17,238 --> 00:47:19,655
The Islamic Republic rejected

437
00:47:19,738 --> 00:47:24,363
the UN Resolution 598.

438
00:47:25,071 --> 00:47:28,905
Our esteemed supreme leader,
Imam Khomeini,

439
00:47:29,321 --> 00:47:33,488
posed two preconditions:

440
00:47:33,738 --> 00:47:38,196
First, the removal of Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein from power,

441
00:47:38,655 --> 00:47:40,488
a demand made eight years ago,

442
00:47:40,571 --> 00:47:46,530
when Iraq invaded our sacred land,

443
00:47:46,613 --> 00:47:52,113
in September 1980...

444
00:47:52,821 --> 00:47:54,071
Attention! Attention!

445
00:47:54,155 --> 00:47:56,363
I’ll get the kids! Go get my mother!

446
00:47:56,446 --> 00:47:57,488
Negar! Dara!

447
00:47:57,571 --> 00:48:00,238
Red Alert! Air Raid!

448
00:48:00,905 --> 00:48:03,238
Alert!

449
00:48:04,030 --> 00:48:05,946
It’s nothing, it’s nothing...

450
00:49:26,113 --> 00:49:28,321
Hossein Hossein is our slogan!

451
00:49:28,405 --> 00:49:30,238
Martyrdom is our pride!

452
00:49:30,446 --> 00:49:32,655
Hossein Hossein is our slogan!

453
00:49:32,738 --> 00:49:34,863
Martyrdom is our pride!

454
00:49:35,155 --> 00:49:37,363
Hossein Hossein is our slogan!

455
00:49:37,446 --> 00:49:39,280
Martyrdom is our pride!

456
00:49:39,488 --> 00:49:41,696
Hossein Hossein is our slogan!

457
00:49:41,780 --> 00:49:43,863
Martyrdom is our pride!

458
00:49:44,113 --> 00:49:46,155
Hossein Hossein is our slogan!

459
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:48,238
Martyrdom is our pride!

460
00:49:48,405 --> 00:49:50,613
Hossein Hossein is our slogan!

461
00:49:50,696 --> 00:49:52,530
Martyrdom is our pride!

462
00:50:27,113 --> 00:50:28,821
We can’t continue like this.

463
00:50:44,696 --> 00:50:47,905
Look how much Ghomi respects
his martyred friends.

464
00:50:49,030 --> 00:50:51,405
Death brought him to God, right?

465
00:50:51,571 --> 00:50:53,613
They keep saying their
only love is God.

466
00:50:53,946 --> 00:50:56,446
Be careful what you wish for...

467
00:51:00,571 --> 00:51:02,113
Professor Nafisi, I’m sorry,

468
00:51:02,821 --> 00:51:04,363
but you didn’t know him.

469
00:51:04,946 --> 00:51:06,738
But we knew him.

470
00:51:06,988 --> 00:51:09,071
A friend of ours
was expelled because of him.

471
00:51:09,946 --> 00:51:13,321
He said he was aroused because
he saw some skin under her scarf

472
00:51:22,863 --> 00:51:23,571
Go talk to her...

473
00:51:23,905 --> 00:51:25,780
Hossein Hossein is our slogan!

474
00:51:25,946 --> 00:51:27,821
Martyrdom is our pride!

475
00:51:34,363 --> 00:51:35,321
Professor!

476
00:51:41,946 --> 00:51:42,738
Yes, dear.

477
00:51:46,696 --> 00:51:50,196
You say we should feel sorry
for these fanatics when they’re killed?

478
00:51:50,405 --> 00:51:51,988
No, that’s not the point.

479
00:51:53,780 --> 00:51:58,280
No matter what they do,
we can’t be like them. Understand?

480
00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:02,280
Yes.

481
00:52:04,571 --> 00:52:05,405
Sorry.

482
00:52:06,488 --> 00:52:07,488
Nassrin.

483
00:52:13,363 --> 00:52:15,196
I saw them take you away that day.

484
00:52:17,488 --> 00:52:19,280
I know what they did to Mahtab.

485
00:52:20,613 --> 00:52:21,613
I’m sorry.

486
00:52:25,780 --> 00:52:26,780
The worst for me was

487
00:52:27,196 --> 00:52:29,946
when they’d call people’s names
in the middle of the night.

488
00:52:35,571 --> 00:52:37,280
Each time they took three girls

489
00:52:38,113 --> 00:52:40,113
and we would hear only two gunshots.

490
00:52:42,030 --> 00:52:43,030
Ahmadi!

491
00:52:44,946 --> 00:52:47,071
It took an eternity
until we knew who survived.

492
00:52:57,696 --> 00:52:58,905
I’m glad you got out.

493
00:53:01,530 --> 00:53:03,321
Thanks to my devout father.

494
00:53:05,071 --> 00:53:07,446
Without him,
God knows where I would be.

495
00:53:10,155 --> 00:53:12,238
For some girls
it was better to die.

496
00:53:14,655 --> 00:53:15,780
There was this girl...

497
00:53:16,488 --> 00:53:18,155
She wasn’t even political,

498
00:53:18,988 --> 00:53:20,113
she was just beautiful.

499
00:53:21,530 --> 00:53:23,280
They passed her around

500
00:53:24,905 --> 00:53:26,196
and raped her,

501
00:53:28,655 --> 00:53:30,030
so she wouldn’t be a virgin anymore

502
00:53:32,613 --> 00:53:34,280
and wouldn’t go to heaven
after they kill her.

503
00:53:36,863 --> 00:53:38,905
They were careful not to touch us,

504
00:53:39,405 --> 00:53:41,405
but raping was not a problem.

505
00:53:59,321 --> 00:54:01,238
We talked a lot about books,
Mahtab and I.

506
00:54:02,738 --> 00:54:03,655
That was really good.

507
00:54:05,571 --> 00:54:08,655
A Pyrrhic victory.

508
00:54:11,655 --> 00:54:13,446
- Join us!
- A Pyrrhic victory.

509
00:54:13,530 --> 00:54:15,905
Let us pay respect to our dear brother
who sacrificed his life

510
00:54:15,988 --> 00:54:18,988
for the sake of the Islamic Republic!

511
00:54:36,655 --> 00:54:37,655
Professor Nafisi…

512
00:54:38,863 --> 00:54:40,155
Mr. Bahri...

513
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:42,363
I’m okay, professor.

514
00:54:43,196 --> 00:54:45,238
Much better than others, praise Allah.

515
00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:52,321
I’m happy to see you.

516
00:54:53,946 --> 00:54:55,071
Me too.

517
00:54:57,488 --> 00:54:59,696
I thought I’d come to say hello.

518
00:55:22,780 --> 00:55:23,780
I deserve that.

519
00:56:23,738 --> 00:56:25,363
You’re sure you don’t want to go?

520
00:56:25,696 --> 00:56:26,905
Me? No…

521
00:56:27,780 --> 00:56:29,196
you’ll get more out of it.

522
00:56:42,821 --> 00:56:46,030
7th Milad International Film Festival

523
00:57:08,488 --> 00:57:10,405
I love Tarkovsky.

524
00:57:11,655 --> 00:57:12,655
Yes, yes...

525
00:57:16,696 --> 00:57:18,530
They really want to show this film?

526
00:57:20,280 --> 00:57:22,196
In Swedish, without subtitles...

527
00:57:24,071 --> 00:57:27,113
I just want to know
what the censor did to it...

528
00:57:45,363 --> 00:57:48,655
Written and Directed by
Andrei Tarkovsky

529
00:58:27,821 --> 00:58:28,821
What was that?

530
00:58:29,030 --> 00:58:30,613
Don’t you know the censor is blind?

531
00:58:33,113 --> 00:58:34,613
Unbelievable

532
00:59:02,905 --> 00:59:04,946
Hossein Hossein is our slogan.

533
00:59:05,030 --> 00:59:06,946
Martyrdom is our honor.

534
00:59:13,530 --> 00:59:15,196
They lied to us!

535
00:59:15,655 --> 00:59:17,405
They lied to us!

536
00:59:17,696 --> 00:59:19,946
They lied to us!

537
00:59:25,946 --> 00:59:26,905
Ghomi, what are you doing?

538
00:59:28,155 --> 00:59:30,405
Ghomi locked himself in!

539
00:59:30,530 --> 00:59:32,446
Go find the keys!

540
00:59:33,780 --> 00:59:34,696
Ghomi! Ghomi!

541
00:59:34,780 --> 00:59:36,155
Ghomi! Open the door

542
00:59:36,238 --> 00:59:37,571
What are you doing?

543
00:59:39,863 --> 00:59:41,780
Ghomi, please! Don’t do it!

544
00:59:45,905 --> 00:59:46,780
Here are the keys!

545
00:59:46,863 --> 00:59:48,488
Open the door! Quickly!

546
00:59:56,988 --> 00:59:58,488
Let me in.

547
00:59:59,405 --> 01:00:01,738
Let me in, let me in!

548
01:00:02,405 --> 01:00:07,155
Let me in.

549
01:00:07,571 --> 01:00:10,571
Oh no, what has he done...

550
01:00:58,863 --> 01:00:59,446
Hello.

551
01:00:59,988 --> 01:01:02,363
Can I speak to Bijan Naderi?

552
01:01:03,571 --> 01:01:05,196
I’m his wife, thank you.

553
01:01:15,780 --> 01:01:18,530
No, no need to disturb him..

554
01:01:20,238 --> 01:01:22,238
Just tell him that I called.

555
01:01:23,363 --> 01:01:24,446
Thank you.

556
01:02:04,571 --> 01:02:05,696
You said you knew him?

557
01:02:07,363 --> 01:02:10,655
Yes, a big shot in the
Muslim Students Association.

558
01:02:11,571 --> 01:02:15,030
He never read the books,
yet he always had something to say.

559
01:02:16,946 --> 01:02:18,905
He always talked about the war.

560
01:02:19,780 --> 01:02:21,321
Finally, he went to the front.

561
01:02:24,321 --> 01:02:27,363
He believed the war was
a blessing for everyone.

562
01:02:28,488 --> 01:02:30,571
Because the war really
was a blessing for him.

563
01:02:32,155 --> 01:02:32,905
Yes.

564
01:02:33,738 --> 01:02:35,071
and then he came home

565
01:02:35,155 --> 01:02:38,488
and saw that everyone was watching
the Oscars on their satellite dishes.

566
01:02:39,280 --> 01:02:40,863
His world fell apart.

567
01:02:42,655 --> 01:02:44,363
And so he decided.

568
01:02:48,196 --> 01:02:52,446
He kept saying: "They lied to me."

569
01:02:53,696 --> 01:02:55,196
"they lied to me."

570
01:02:58,946 --> 01:03:00,655
He thought this through.

571
01:03:02,613 --> 01:03:06,280
He brought jerrycans
through the university gate,

572
01:03:07,613 --> 01:03:12,821
all the way to an empty class
he found on the second floor.

573
01:03:14,238 --> 01:03:18,196
He sat and poured gasoline over himself.

574
01:03:23,238 --> 01:03:25,238
I don’t understand
how he could light the match.

575
01:03:30,405 --> 01:03:32,196
I don’t want to care about him, but…

576
01:03:34,446 --> 01:03:36,113
I wish I was stronger.

577
01:03:46,196 --> 01:03:48,405
Azar dear, it’s not about being strong.

578
01:04:01,280 --> 01:04:02,946
I can’t teach anymore.

579
01:04:05,155 --> 01:04:06,155
Because?

580
01:04:08,113 --> 01:04:09,363
Because of everything.

581
01:04:12,196 --> 01:04:14,155
My dear, giving up
isn’t the right thing to do.

582
01:04:15,613 --> 01:04:16,905
You know that very well.

583
01:04:19,113 --> 01:04:20,113
What about you?

584
01:04:21,280 --> 01:04:24,155
You gave up.
You gave up on everything.

585
01:04:24,405 --> 01:04:26,238
I gave up a long time ago.

586
01:04:26,696 --> 01:04:28,280
I contribute nothing.

587
01:04:29,863 --> 01:04:31,738
Like a disembodied brain.

588
01:04:32,488 --> 01:04:33,946
Why say such nonsense?

589
01:04:35,238 --> 01:04:36,238
It’s true,

590
01:04:37,571 --> 01:04:40,363
and I don’t mind it. Why should I?

591
01:04:44,071 --> 01:04:45,905
I can teach private lessons, right?

592
01:04:56,196 --> 01:04:57,196
Hello.

593
01:04:58,821 --> 01:05:00,613
We were worried sick.

594
01:05:01,363 --> 01:05:02,613
Why didn’t you call?

595
01:05:04,780 --> 01:05:06,363
I did, I couldn’t reach you.

596
01:05:07,238 --> 01:05:10,988
Mama, Grandma said
maybe you were arrested

597
01:05:11,196 --> 01:05:13,155
Don’t say such things
to the children, Mom.

598
01:05:13,946 --> 01:05:16,530
But we didn’t know what happened.

599
01:05:16,696 --> 01:05:18,655
- Okay, but…
- You’re not careful.

600
01:05:19,071 --> 01:05:21,946
You keep going around
with that colleague of yours.

601
01:05:22,780 --> 01:05:26,530
One day they might arrest you,
heaven forbid.

602
01:05:36,071 --> 01:05:37,863
Go, go talk to him.

603
01:05:42,863 --> 01:05:43,863
It’s nothing, sweetheart,

604
01:05:44,530 --> 01:05:45,530
I’ll be right back.

605
01:05:53,655 --> 01:05:54,405
Bijan,

606
01:05:56,071 --> 01:05:57,613
it was a terrible day.

607
01:05:58,446 --> 01:06:00,238
That’s why you went
to talk to him?

608
01:06:02,280 --> 01:06:03,613
I called you first,

609
01:06:04,655 --> 01:06:05,696
but I couldn’t find you.

610
01:06:06,655 --> 01:06:08,196
You must have wished
not to find me.

611
01:06:09,946 --> 01:06:11,196
What are you talking about?

612
01:06:11,321 --> 01:06:13,530
I just want to know
why you went to him, not to me

613
01:06:13,738 --> 01:06:16,446
Simple question, simple answer.

614
01:06:16,738 --> 01:06:18,113
I just told you why...

615
01:06:18,238 --> 01:06:19,030
So it’s my fault!

616
01:06:19,113 --> 01:06:21,405
No, it’s this cursed place we live in...

617
01:06:21,488 --> 01:06:23,905
You can’t blame everything
on the Islamic Republic.

618
01:06:23,988 --> 01:06:25,321
- But...
- But what?

619
01:06:26,030 --> 01:06:29,155
They again made another stupid rule
you don’t like!?

620
01:06:36,155 --> 01:06:36,863
Yes.

621
01:06:37,488 --> 01:06:39,613
Yes, you’re right. It’s my fault.

622
01:06:41,446 --> 01:06:42,655
I should have called again.

623
01:06:44,030 --> 01:06:47,863
- I’m sorry I made you worry.
- Mama, Dara took my books!

624
01:06:48,280 --> 01:06:49,655
Dara, stop it!

625
01:06:49,988 --> 01:06:51,488
Mama!

626
01:07:11,280 --> 01:07:12,071
Hello?

627
01:07:12,363 --> 01:07:13,571
I called you yesterday.

628
01:07:15,030 --> 01:07:16,238
Your mother said you were ill.

629
01:07:16,530 --> 01:07:18,655
Yes, I had a big fight with Bijan.

630
01:07:19,821 --> 01:07:21,571
I need to apologize to him.

631
01:07:22,405 --> 01:07:24,238
I was being childish.

632
01:07:27,613 --> 01:07:29,363
I keep telling him the same thing
over and over.

633
01:07:32,071 --> 01:07:33,530
You should stop me...

634
01:07:34,613 --> 01:07:36,363
Either take this feeling out
of your system,

635
01:07:37,113 --> 01:07:39,030
or take yourself out of the system.

636
01:07:39,946 --> 01:07:41,530
You’re so clever…

637
01:07:42,488 --> 01:07:43,405
Obviously.

638
01:07:45,780 --> 01:07:48,321
I know this isn’t Somalia or Afghanistan.

639
01:07:48,446 --> 01:07:50,696
I know it could be much worse.

640
01:07:52,155 --> 01:07:53,321
I’m so tired.

641
01:07:55,030 --> 01:07:56,030
Get some rest, dear.

642
01:07:56,821 --> 01:07:57,571
OK, dear.

643
01:07:58,655 --> 01:07:59,696
See you.

644
01:08:16,113 --> 01:08:17,571
The Dean
Faculty of Literature - Allameh University

645
01:08:17,655 --> 01:08:19,238
Dear Sir, When I returned to Tehran,

646
01:08:19,321 --> 01:08:21,321
I thought that teaching English
would be a sublime mission,

647
01:08:21,405 --> 01:08:22,613
and so it was at first.

648
01:08:22,695 --> 01:08:24,113
Today, for various reasons,

649
01:08:28,780 --> 01:08:31,655
I can’t keep doing this.

650
01:08:31,738 --> 01:08:34,570
I hereby submit my resignation.
respectfully, Azar Nafisi

651
01:08:56,113 --> 01:08:59,655
Goals were scored by Danaeifard
in the 13th minute

652
01:08:59,738 --> 01:09:02,655
and Farrokhi in the 58th...

653
01:09:02,945 --> 01:09:04,280
Thursday - 10am – Azar Nafisi

654
01:09:04,405 --> 01:09:05,195
Dad

655
01:09:06,320 --> 01:09:07,238
I forgot my...

656
01:09:10,488 --> 01:09:11,320
Thanks.

657
01:09:12,195 --> 01:09:13,363
I should go, I’m late.

658
01:09:14,863 --> 01:09:15,863
Nassrin...

659
01:09:17,530 --> 01:09:18,905
I don’t want to lose you.

660
01:09:19,570 --> 01:09:20,613
Be careful.

661
01:09:21,655 --> 01:09:22,738
Don’t worry.

662
01:09:26,113 --> 01:09:27,780
I like Jane Austen,

663
01:09:27,863 --> 01:09:32,155
but sometimes I feel
she makes everything too small.

664
01:09:32,570 --> 01:09:33,905
What if you don’t go?

665
01:09:34,945 --> 01:09:35,945
Just this once.

666
01:09:37,780 --> 01:09:38,905
Let’s stay here together.

667
01:09:48,863 --> 01:09:51,070
I don’t know who you were talking about,

668
01:09:51,363 --> 01:09:52,655
but men are like that.

669
01:09:52,945 --> 01:09:54,320
We’re supposed to marry them?

670
01:09:54,405 --> 01:09:57,820
How can you spend a lifetime
with someone you don’t know?

671
01:09:59,405 --> 01:10:01,196
Is that why you never got married?

672
01:10:04,238 --> 01:10:05,655
Stop this nonsense.

673
01:10:05,905 --> 01:10:07,363
Stay home
and take care of your family.

674
01:10:07,571 --> 01:10:10,030
It’s one day a week! One day!

675
01:10:10,780 --> 01:10:11,821
And she’s asleep.

676
01:10:12,530 --> 01:10:15,946
It’s not about her.
You love your books more than us.

677
01:10:16,613 --> 01:10:17,780
More than you!

678
01:10:25,155 --> 01:10:26,155
No need!

679
01:10:26,571 --> 01:10:28,196
Go take care of your stupid novels.

680
01:10:28,863 --> 01:10:29,863
Go.

681
01:10:54,780 --> 01:10:56,613
I’ve never danced in my life.

682
01:11:05,446 --> 01:11:07,696
Why are you blushing?
I’m not really a man.

683
01:11:08,321 --> 01:11:10,030
She’s embarrassed. So am I.

684
01:12:02,780 --> 01:12:04,613
Nassrin! That was my foot.

685
01:12:15,446 --> 01:12:17,446
We can’t remember the steps
and talk and the same time.

686
01:12:17,530 --> 01:12:19,696
Nobody can! It’s really hard.

687
01:12:19,821 --> 01:12:21,280
We got confused.

688
01:13:31,655 --> 01:13:33,530
Men are weak, that’s it.

689
01:13:33,696 --> 01:13:37,321
Don’t men and women get
married for sex?

690
01:13:37,863 --> 01:13:39,280
Manna, you’re married, you tell us.

691
01:13:40,321 --> 01:13:42,530
The truth is, Nima is my best friend.

692
01:13:42,821 --> 01:13:46,030
We have a deep, spiritual connection.

693
01:13:46,405 --> 01:13:47,988
Poor Nima.

694
01:13:48,905 --> 01:13:50,821
He’s not poor at all.

695
01:13:51,113 --> 01:13:53,905
Anyway, he has no one else to talk to.

696
01:13:54,405 --> 01:13:56,571
Men and women can’t be friends.

697
01:13:57,280 --> 01:13:58,738
Don’t fool yourselves.

698
01:14:00,030 --> 01:14:02,405
It’s all good when the sex is good.

699
01:14:04,030 --> 01:14:05,030
Otherwise...

700
01:14:06,071 --> 01:14:07,071
That’s obvious.

701
01:14:17,238 --> 01:14:18,280
Azin dear...

702
01:14:18,988 --> 01:14:20,363
He hates me.

703
01:14:21,613 --> 01:14:23,405
You can’t let him beat you.

704
01:14:24,363 --> 01:14:25,155
No?

705
01:14:26,113 --> 01:14:27,113
If I leave,

706
01:14:28,405 --> 01:14:30,530
he’ll take away my daughter
and have his mother raise her.

707
01:14:32,113 --> 01:14:33,613
I can’t let that happen.

708
01:14:40,780 --> 01:14:43,238
So why do you keep getting married
again and again?

709
01:14:43,905 --> 01:14:46,363
Maybe she makes the wrong choices.

710
01:14:47,113 --> 01:14:48,113
No, no, look,

711
01:14:48,821 --> 01:14:51,863
even Azin knows the difference
between higher love

712
01:14:52,321 --> 01:14:56,238
and something earthbound
like sleeping together.

713
01:14:56,571 --> 01:14:57,405
"Even Azin"?

714
01:14:57,571 --> 01:14:58,946
No, I didn’t mean it like that...

715
01:14:59,030 --> 01:15:01,821
Professor Nafisi,
I think about sex a lot.

716
01:15:02,405 --> 01:15:03,155
Of course…

717
01:15:03,238 --> 01:15:05,571
Is it only me? You don’t?

718
01:15:05,738 --> 01:15:07,113
So only I’m crazy?

719
01:15:07,196 --> 01:15:09,488
No, dear,
it’s only natural. You’re young

720
01:15:09,571 --> 01:15:11,196
and you should think about these things.

721
01:15:13,030 --> 01:15:17,446
Okay, girls, what dances would
you say define our society?

722
01:15:17,780 --> 01:15:18,488
Baba Karam.

723
01:15:19,030 --> 01:15:20,030
You dance?

724
01:15:20,196 --> 01:15:24,446
It’s easier than walking like poles.
A step here, a step there...

725
01:15:24,613 --> 01:15:27,780
- So you do dance...
- Come to the center!

726
01:15:29,530 --> 01:15:30,905
Surely you’re happy to show us!

727
01:15:31,863 --> 01:15:33,738
Oh lady

728
01:15:34,030 --> 01:15:35,030
Oh lady

729
01:15:35,155 --> 01:15:37,363
Oh lady

730
01:15:37,655 --> 01:15:39,738
Sit on your knees...

731
01:15:39,946 --> 01:15:42,363
Make a fuss, dear...

732
01:15:42,446 --> 01:15:44,113
Move your body gracefully

733
01:15:44,405 --> 01:15:46,655
My heart is overflowing
like a spring...

734
01:15:47,238 --> 01:15:49,196
My heart is overflowing
like a spring...

735
01:15:49,780 --> 01:15:52,113
My beautiful girl, my flower.

736
01:15:52,196 --> 01:15:54,530
My bud girl, my flower.

737
01:15:54,613 --> 01:15:56,821
My alley girl, my flower.

738
01:15:56,946 --> 01:15:59,071
From alley to alley, my flower.

739
01:15:59,280 --> 01:16:01,446
Be cute, my flower.

740
01:16:01,696 --> 01:16:03,780
Because of this cuteness and charisma.

741
01:16:04,071 --> 01:16:05,988
Make a fuss dear

742
01:16:06,113 --> 01:16:07,946
Make a fuss...

743
01:16:08,113 --> 01:16:09,946
My heart is overflowing
like a spring...

744
01:16:10,738 --> 01:16:12,613
My heart is overflowing
like a spring...

745
01:16:15,155 --> 01:16:16,946
Oh lady,

746
01:16:17,405 --> 01:16:19,405
Oh lady,

747
01:16:19,738 --> 01:16:21,821
Sit on your knees.

748
01:16:22,030 --> 01:16:23,696
Make a fuss, dear

749
01:16:23,780 --> 01:16:25,946
because of this cuteness and charisma.

750
01:16:26,030 --> 01:16:30,446
My heart is overflowing like a spring…

751
01:16:42,238 --> 01:16:43,196
What’s that?

752
01:16:48,905 --> 01:16:50,280
Is there something you don’t know?

753
01:16:51,946 --> 01:16:53,530
Not me, the girls.

754
01:16:54,155 --> 01:16:55,905
They know nothing.

755
01:16:57,405 --> 01:16:59,030
I guess it’s not surprising.

756
01:17:00,405 --> 01:17:04,738
This book came out in the ‘70s,
even American women were confused.

757
01:17:06,196 --> 01:17:09,613
You didn’t seem confused at all
in America, as far as I remember...

758
01:17:11,988 --> 01:17:16,071
In our culture, love and feelings
are segregated from sex.

759
01:17:18,488 --> 01:17:21,446
Do you segregate sex
from love as well?

760
01:17:22,196 --> 01:17:23,196
Not me.

761
01:17:28,071 --> 01:17:32,155
You know I had a lot
on my mind lately.

762
01:17:39,696 --> 01:17:41,363
Can you put it
aside for a minute?

763
01:17:53,905 --> 01:17:56,446
Want to talk to me
about your nightmares?

764
01:17:58,113 --> 01:18:01,946
They’ve been going on for so long,
why talk about them now?

765
01:18:03,946 --> 01:18:05,655
Something is eating you inside.

766
01:18:06,863 --> 01:18:08,488
It’s important for me
to talk about it.

767
01:18:13,155 --> 01:18:16,321
It’s not easy to speak about
these things. You know that.

768
01:18:20,030 --> 01:18:21,446
And you won’t remember anyway.

769
01:18:25,946 --> 01:18:29,863
Listen, I don’t care if you share
your anxieties with someone else.

770
01:18:30,196 --> 01:18:32,571
You have every right to talk
to any friend you like.

771
01:18:34,905 --> 01:18:36,946
I’m just afraid of losing you.

772
01:18:39,071 --> 01:18:40,321
Losing me?

773
01:18:40,738 --> 01:18:42,321
- Because of him?
- Because of who then?

774
01:18:42,405 --> 01:18:44,571
Because of a thousand other things.

775
01:18:45,113 --> 01:18:48,696
Azin’s husband hit her and
bruised her face last week.

776
01:18:49,405 --> 01:18:52,571
She can’t divorce him. She says
he’ll take her daughter away from her.

777
01:18:53,363 --> 01:18:55,905
There are solutions for these things.
I can get her a lawyer.

778
01:18:55,946 --> 01:18:59,113
Bijan, you don’t need to find a solution.

779
01:18:59,238 --> 01:19:00,280
You’re so naive,

780
01:19:00,363 --> 01:19:02,655
you think everything
can be solved with logic

781
01:19:03,030 --> 01:19:04,530
and good will.

782
01:19:04,655 --> 01:19:05,738
Of course it can.

783
01:19:06,863 --> 01:19:08,321
Governments come and go.

784
01:19:09,363 --> 01:19:10,655
We’re the ones who stay.

785
01:19:12,863 --> 01:19:14,280
This is our country.

786
01:19:15,946 --> 01:19:18,738
- I love Iran.
- I love Iran too.

787
01:19:28,488 --> 01:19:30,405
How amazing…

788
01:19:34,030 --> 01:19:35,571
So this is on you?

789
01:19:35,946 --> 01:19:38,155
No, no, wait, wait.

790
01:19:42,196 --> 01:19:43,321
What a reward!

791
01:19:44,030 --> 01:19:44,905
Excellent!

792
01:19:46,071 --> 01:19:48,071
Azar dear, it’s perfect!

793
01:19:49,196 --> 01:19:51,238
How did it get to Tehran?

794
01:19:51,946 --> 01:19:54,113
After the revolution,
I showed a journalist

795
01:19:55,238 --> 01:19:59,280
from New York around Tehran
and he gave it to me when he left.

796
01:19:59,946 --> 01:20:01,196
And now you’re  giving it to me?

797
01:20:01,738 --> 01:20:04,196
I couldn’t find anyone better than you...

798
01:20:06,280 --> 01:20:09,113
And I was cleaning out my library...

799
01:20:13,155 --> 01:20:17,821
Just checking what I really need,
and don’t need.

800
01:20:19,071 --> 01:20:20,071
You’re leaving?

801
01:20:21,071 --> 01:20:22,780
No, where can I go?

802
01:20:24,363 --> 01:20:26,571
My mother is old.

803
01:20:28,488 --> 01:20:31,780
Bijan just got a contract
to build a park in Isfahan.

804
01:20:33,821 --> 01:20:35,488
But you’re thinking about it.

805
01:20:36,821 --> 01:20:37,696
Azar, listen.

806
01:20:38,738 --> 01:20:40,321
If you want to go, go.

807
01:20:41,863 --> 01:20:43,238
With your family, of course.

808
01:20:44,696 --> 01:20:46,780
You have every right
to achieve what you want.

809
01:20:49,946 --> 01:20:51,905
But how can I desert you

810
01:20:52,530 --> 01:20:54,155
and leave you here without me?

811
01:20:57,780 --> 01:20:59,280
Waiter! Come here!

812
01:20:59,863 --> 01:21:00,613
Yes?

813
01:21:01,571 --> 01:21:02,613
We’re here to take a look.

814
01:21:03,363 --> 01:21:04,363
I’ll tell the manager.

815
01:21:04,946 --> 01:21:05,863
Go.

816
01:21:08,655 --> 01:21:11,196
The Militia. They’re checking everyone.

817
01:21:11,446 --> 01:21:12,488
If you’re not related,

818
01:21:12,571 --> 01:21:14,446
it’s better to sit at separate tables.

819
01:21:14,905 --> 01:21:16,696
If they ask why you’re together,

820
01:21:17,030 --> 01:21:19,030
you’re waiting for an
order of pastries. okay?

821
01:21:23,071 --> 01:21:24,071
What are you doing?

822
01:21:25,363 --> 01:21:26,946
We’ve done nothing wrong!

823
01:21:27,321 --> 01:21:29,946
I’ll call Bijan,
he has no problem with this.

824
01:21:30,196 --> 01:21:31,238
And then what?

825
01:21:31,321 --> 01:21:34,738
They’ll say
he’s not in control of his wife.

826
01:21:34,905 --> 01:21:38,030
I refuse to obey senseless orders.
Don’t move!

827
01:21:40,530 --> 01:21:44,363
If you don’t want to pay the bill,
find a better excuse.

828
01:21:45,446 --> 01:21:46,321
Seriously…

829
01:22:05,571 --> 01:22:09,071
Nassrin, leave the dishes,
come sit here for a sec.

830
01:22:15,321 --> 01:22:16,321
I have to tell you something.

831
01:22:17,113 --> 01:22:18,155
Sit down.

832
01:22:18,571 --> 01:22:19,571
It’s okay.

833
01:22:20,155 --> 01:22:21,196
Is it important?

834
01:22:24,863 --> 01:22:26,946
My sister lives in England.

835
01:22:29,446 --> 01:22:31,238
I’m going to live with her
and her husband.

836
01:22:34,155 --> 01:22:35,155
I’m leaving.

837
01:22:35,696 --> 01:22:36,821
I’m leaving Iran.

838
01:22:40,196 --> 01:22:41,196
Just like that...

839
01:22:43,280 --> 01:22:44,321
How are you leaving?

840
01:22:45,196 --> 01:22:46,196
With smugglers.

841
01:22:49,113 --> 01:22:50,113
They won’t give me a passport,

842
01:22:51,113 --> 01:22:52,363
because I was in prison.

843
01:22:53,613 --> 01:22:56,196
Smugglers? Alone?
How will you do that?

844
01:22:57,446 --> 01:22:59,655
Once I get to Turkey,
my brother-in-law will pick me up.

845
01:23:06,321 --> 01:23:08,196
Prison, war...

846
01:23:10,405 --> 01:23:12,030
That period was really hard for me.

847
01:23:14,238 --> 01:23:16,196
I have...had a boyfriend.

848
01:23:17,613 --> 01:23:18,988
It didn’t help...

849
01:23:25,738 --> 01:23:26,738
Why are you surprised?

850
01:23:29,613 --> 01:23:33,071
Anyway, it ended.
And I wanted to be left alone.

851
01:23:33,946 --> 01:23:36,405
I have some problems,
from my time in prison.

852
01:23:37,821 --> 01:23:41,571
Me and my mother both think
I’ll be better off in England.

853
01:23:44,530 --> 01:23:46,696
That’s why you broke up
with your boyfriend?

854
01:23:47,946 --> 01:23:48,613
Yes...

855
01:23:49,155 --> 01:23:50,696
No, actually...

856
01:23:52,696 --> 01:23:53,946
he was a very good man.

857
01:23:55,405 --> 01:23:56,405
An intellectual.

858
01:23:57,655 --> 01:24:00,571
He read Derrida and watched films
by Kiarostami and Bergman.

859
01:24:01,321 --> 01:24:02,321
But...

860
01:24:04,113 --> 01:24:06,655
I didn’t like the way
he thought about women.

861
01:24:07,821 --> 01:24:09,655
Not that he was rude or anything.

862
01:24:10,738 --> 01:24:12,738
But I saw how he looked
at other women.

863
01:24:15,405 --> 01:24:16,613
He wouldn’t touch me.

864
01:24:17,405 --> 01:24:18,405
He said...

865
01:24:19,238 --> 01:24:20,780
it was out of respect.

866
01:24:22,946 --> 01:24:24,863
Because some women
they want for marriage

867
01:24:26,113 --> 01:24:27,696
and some just for sex.

868
01:24:30,113 --> 01:24:31,113
So you’re leaving.

869
01:24:44,405 --> 01:24:45,821
I’m thirty-five

870
01:24:47,030 --> 01:24:48,530
and I still don’t know what love is.

871
01:24:59,280 --> 01:25:01,696
We didn’t hear from her for a week,

872
01:25:02,238 --> 01:25:05,155
but thank God,
last night her father told me

873
01:25:05,405 --> 01:25:07,155
she reached the border two days ago.

874
01:25:08,446 --> 01:25:12,321
Smugglers will take her
across the mountains next week.

875
01:25:13,321 --> 01:25:16,280
Take her, how? On a mule?

876
01:25:16,738 --> 01:25:19,113
Like Sally Field in
Not Without My Daughter?

877
01:25:20,113 --> 01:25:21,405
You think it’s funny?

878
01:25:22,655 --> 01:25:24,363
Sorry. I don’t know what to say.

879
01:25:24,613 --> 01:25:26,280
- How about saying nothing?
- Manna dear…

880
01:25:26,988 --> 01:25:29,530
sometimes it’s hard to
know how to react.

881
01:25:30,905 --> 01:25:31,905
But why?

882
01:25:33,446 --> 01:25:36,488
We all know why, but why now?

883
01:25:37,571 --> 01:25:38,780
She said it was the right time.

884
01:25:40,738 --> 01:25:42,780
I wish she’d at least say goodbye.

885
01:25:43,571 --> 01:25:45,655
Sometimes that’s too painful.

886
01:25:47,196 --> 01:25:49,655
This class will be over soon anyway.

887
01:25:51,280 --> 01:25:52,613
Nassrin got the message.

888
01:25:53,780 --> 01:25:55,488
You got it into her head.

889
01:25:55,988 --> 01:25:57,363
The idea that we should all leave.

890
01:25:58,071 --> 01:25:58,780
Me?

891
01:25:59,905 --> 01:26:02,238
I never said that. I never will.

892
01:26:02,321 --> 01:26:03,530
You didn’t have to.

893
01:26:04,238 --> 01:26:05,613
The subtext was:

894
01:26:06,405 --> 01:26:07,613
Get out of Iran.

895
01:26:07,946 --> 01:26:10,946
Yassi! Why are you putting words
in the professor’s mouth?

896
01:26:12,155 --> 01:26:14,863
If you feel trapped living
here, just say so.

897
01:26:14,946 --> 01:26:16,946
Fine. I feel like I’m in a cage, okay?

898
01:26:17,196 --> 01:26:20,613
So why blame others?
The professor didn’t start the revolution.

899
01:26:21,613 --> 01:26:24,321
Certainly, this revolution is not
the one we wanted.

900
01:26:24,863 --> 01:26:27,738
I always said that each of us
must decide for herself.

901
01:26:28,071 --> 01:26:29,946
You set up the model for us,

902
01:26:30,655 --> 01:26:32,155
That staying here is useless.

903
01:26:32,780 --> 01:26:35,363
We should leave if we want
to make something of ourselves.

904
01:26:35,946 --> 01:26:37,113
I’m still here.

905
01:26:37,946 --> 01:26:40,696
I’m sorry if you somehow
got the wrong impression.

906
01:26:40,905 --> 01:26:42,071
I don’t think that’s fair.

907
01:26:42,405 --> 01:26:44,863
Yes, it’s not fair. We all think so.

908
01:26:45,405 --> 01:26:46,405
This is the truth,

909
01:26:46,488 --> 01:26:48,946
you stopped teaching at university.

910
01:26:49,155 --> 01:26:50,405
And started this class.

911
01:26:50,571 --> 01:26:51,613
Girls!

912
01:26:53,196 --> 01:26:54,738
You’re exaggerating!

913
01:26:58,821 --> 01:27:00,821
No, I’m glad you’re speaking up.

914
01:27:03,113 --> 01:27:04,196
The truth is...

915
01:27:05,363 --> 01:27:06,946
I’m thinking about leaving too.

916
01:27:09,238 --> 01:27:10,238
But...

917
01:27:10,821 --> 01:27:12,071
my life is here.

918
01:27:12,821 --> 01:27:14,196
Bijan’s work is here.

919
01:27:14,530 --> 01:27:15,863
My mother is getting old.

920
01:27:17,280 --> 01:27:20,738
It's been years since I slept
without having the worst nightmares.

921
01:27:22,446 --> 01:27:24,155
I know that you have
the same problem too.

922
01:27:27,280 --> 01:27:29,238
I think to myself that
I just want to feel comfortable.

923
01:27:30,613 --> 01:27:33,071
But then I wonder,
what does feeling comfortable mean?

924
01:27:34,446 --> 01:27:36,488
What if we get used to living like this?

925
01:27:39,071 --> 01:27:41,696
I got used to feeling nauseated and dizzy.

926
01:27:43,446 --> 01:27:45,696
But without feeling like this,
what kind of person am I?

927
01:27:47,405 --> 01:27:49,196
And if I can’t let go
of this feeling,

928
01:27:50,780 --> 01:27:51,946
how can I stay here?

929
01:28:38,696 --> 01:28:40,113
- What are you doing?
- Where are the walnuts?

930
01:28:40,363 --> 01:28:41,363
Where are the walnuts?

931
01:28:42,405 --> 01:28:44,488
Did you eat them all?

932
01:28:46,863 --> 01:28:47,988
Where are the walnuts?

933
01:28:48,446 --> 01:28:49,863
Here, they’re here.

934
01:29:06,946 --> 01:29:07,655
Bijan...

935
01:29:17,196 --> 01:29:18,196
Say something.

936
01:29:19,280 --> 01:29:20,280
Say what?

937
01:29:21,946 --> 01:29:23,655
Say something to calm me down.

938
01:29:25,280 --> 01:29:26,655
Say you want to leave this place.

939
01:29:27,155 --> 01:29:28,446
It won’t stay like this.

940
01:29:28,821 --> 01:29:30,530
We won’t live forever.

941
01:29:31,113 --> 01:29:33,155
The fact that we go on represents...

942
01:29:33,238 --> 01:29:34,363
Represents what?

943
01:29:36,155 --> 01:29:39,946
I don’t want to represent anything.
I just want to be comfortable to live.

944
01:29:40,321 --> 01:29:41,280
Don’t you live?

945
01:29:41,363 --> 01:29:42,738
Of course not!

946
01:29:43,363 --> 01:29:44,363
Don’t you see?

947
01:29:45,905 --> 01:29:48,238
I’m transparent, I don’t exist!

948
01:29:48,696 --> 01:29:49,780
What are you talking about?

949
01:29:50,071 --> 01:29:52,488
Bijan, they took everything away
from me.

950
01:29:53,280 --> 01:29:55,571
Everything!

951
01:29:57,613 --> 01:29:58,613
Wait.

952
01:30:00,030 --> 01:30:01,113
Listen to me for a minute.

953
01:30:04,738 --> 01:30:05,863
Look, this is me.

954
01:30:07,071 --> 01:30:07,946
This is you.

955
01:30:09,530 --> 01:30:11,030
We’re real.

956
01:30:12,780 --> 01:30:14,238
The only thing that’s real.

957
01:30:16,446 --> 01:30:19,363
I built this house for us, for our family.

958
01:30:19,655 --> 01:30:21,530
Nobody can touch us here.

959
01:30:21,613 --> 01:30:22,863
Yes, and it’s wonderful.

960
01:30:22,946 --> 01:30:25,488
But what happens when we’re outside?

961
01:30:26,946 --> 01:30:30,321
Do you want to raise your daughter,
your Negar, in this ruined place?

962
01:30:32,905 --> 01:30:36,238
What will Dara think about women?
What kind of man will he be?

963
01:30:36,321 --> 01:30:37,446
He won’t be like that,

964
01:30:37,530 --> 01:30:39,280
Dara is my son,
I’m not that kind of a person.

965
01:30:39,363 --> 01:30:41,655
Bijan, this is the water we swim in.

966
01:30:43,280 --> 01:30:45,946
These kids know nothing else.

967
01:30:47,405 --> 01:30:52,655
I know it’s hard for you to leave behind
your home, your work, everything, and go.

968
01:30:53,280 --> 01:30:54,363
But we’re a family.

969
01:30:56,780 --> 01:30:58,988
Ultimately, I’m making the decision
for all of us.

970
01:31:48,238 --> 01:31:50,488
Kids dressed, fed, off to school.

971
01:31:50,571 --> 01:31:52,946
Rest. Call if you need anything.
Love, B.

972
01:32:04,780 --> 01:32:06,488
Manna was right, wasn’t she.

973
01:32:10,321 --> 01:32:12,530
I won’t be surprised if you all leave.

974
01:32:17,113 --> 01:32:17,863
And you?

975
01:32:18,905 --> 01:32:19,696
Me?

976
01:32:21,071 --> 01:32:22,071
Never.

977
01:32:23,946 --> 01:32:25,155
Maybe I’m just stubborn.

978
01:32:32,071 --> 01:32:34,696
All these years,
I really loved your classes.

979
01:32:36,155 --> 01:32:38,030
I enjoyed every moment.

980
01:32:39,571 --> 01:32:41,446
Even if they thought I’m an
old maid.

981
01:32:41,655 --> 01:32:45,280
- No one thought so…
- Of course they did.

982
01:32:46,780 --> 01:32:48,071
I didn’t care.

983
01:32:49,321 --> 01:32:52,696
I was veiled long before
it became mandatory.

984
01:32:53,946 --> 01:32:55,863
I was a believer. Devout.

985
01:32:57,863 --> 01:32:59,363
I took pride in that.

986
01:33:03,363 --> 01:33:04,655
Now I don’t know anymore.

987
01:33:17,696 --> 01:33:18,696
Don’t cry.

988
01:33:38,071 --> 01:33:40,946
Iran is in love again
Mohammad Khatami for President

989
01:33:57,696 --> 01:33:59,113
In love again…

990
01:34:00,530 --> 01:34:01,696
Unbelievable...

991
01:34:03,946 --> 01:34:06,571
If they lose faith in the future,
they won’t survive.

992
01:34:07,030 --> 01:34:08,030
They’ll survive,

993
01:34:08,738 --> 01:34:10,321
but they won’t want to stay.

994
01:34:12,030 --> 01:34:13,571
But these are my problems alone.

995
01:34:14,030 --> 01:34:16,113
I hope you’ll keep me posted.

996
01:34:17,405 --> 01:34:18,905
I won’t be doing that, my friend.

997
01:34:20,655 --> 01:34:23,738
Call it self-defense, cowardice,

998
01:34:24,030 --> 01:34:26,446
lack of courage. Whatever you want.

999
01:34:27,321 --> 01:34:28,821
I don’t want to be in touch

1000
01:34:29,530 --> 01:34:31,946
with someone who got it
together to get out of here.

1001
01:34:32,696 --> 01:34:34,613
You’re the one who encouraged
me to leave.

1002
01:34:35,530 --> 01:34:37,571
Why cut me off?

1003
01:34:38,446 --> 01:34:39,905
Because these are my rules.

1004
01:34:41,363 --> 01:34:43,530
Far from the eye, far from the heart.

1005
01:34:43,863 --> 01:34:45,113
Oh God...

1006
01:34:46,238 --> 01:34:49,946
Stupid rules...
Such a string of cliches...

1007
01:34:51,530 --> 01:34:53,113
Most rules are.

1008
01:34:56,530 --> 01:34:58,030
Don’t look upset.

1009
01:35:00,155 --> 01:35:03,530
When you get to America,
write about me in your book too.

1010
01:35:04,446 --> 01:35:06,155
Who said I’ll write about myself?

1011
01:35:06,696 --> 01:35:08,488
I want to write about Jane Austen.

1012
01:35:09,988 --> 01:35:11,738
And you think you can do that?

1013
01:35:12,988 --> 01:35:14,946
Without writing about us?

1014
01:35:17,821 --> 01:35:19,946
Jane Austen has nothing to do
with me and you.

1015
01:35:20,530 --> 01:35:23,571
No one can tell your story but you.

1016
01:35:24,613 --> 01:35:27,571
You should go live your life,
write your book.

1017
01:35:29,071 --> 01:35:30,780
In any case, you’ll leave Iran,

1018
01:35:31,321 --> 01:35:33,530
but Iran will never leave you.

1019
01:36:49,655 --> 01:36:51,196
It’s nothing Bijan, sleep.

1020
01:36:52,780 --> 01:36:53,530
Sleep.

1021
01:37:09,571 --> 01:37:11,655
- Mom...
- Good morning, Negar dear...