About Elly, originally called Darbareye Elly is a winner of the Silver Bear at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival, is a 2009 Iranian film by Asghar Farhadi, a globally, critically venerated Iranian film director and screenwriter. Just one year after its release About Elly was voted the 4th greatest Iranian movie of all time by the national society of Iranian critics. What makes this film distinct from many is that the viewer is exposed to the alluringly multifaceted societal subtleties of people during trauma and how situations are handled. To be precise, this film has things to propose about some of the gradations of Iranian culture under these traumatic circumstances.
The film starts off with an Iranian family in Tehran going a holiday to the Caspian seaside, where things are much calmer than the urban precincts of Tehran. Farhadi is emphasizing primarily on the Tehrani upper-middle-class – refined, erudite, pleasure-seeking, only slightly religious hence allowing viewers to see Iranians through a different
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It struck me, the similarities between Elly and Shérazade who is a seventeen-year-old runaway, what she is running from, however, is an issue prime for discussion. I believe Shérazade is not merely running in search of herself and her amalgam uniqueness as part French, part Algerian but she is running from physical, and emotional confinement; by constantly moving, Shérazade is the anti-odalisque. Neither inert nor intent, Shérazade is a survivor who takes power of her vocation, and above all, her body. For many, predominantly the members of her family, Shérazade’s sudden disappearance is a complete mystery. Two very distinct characters with nothing conjoint but their abrupt disappearances and the impact they left in both of their individual stories even though they weren’t necessarily there, their manifestation is still felt and the plot revolves around them regardless of their
Bheka Khanyile, (20), a student from Coastal College got expelled from the college because he’s gay, GroundUp reports.
As a future educator, it will be my job to continue acknowledging, valuing and teaching Indigenous origins, histories and cultures using the Australian Institute for Teaching and School (AITSL) standard 2.4 and the Australian Curriculum. This will give my future students a better understanding that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were the first custodians of our Australian land and of their origins. They lived in Australia 60,000 years before the British settled in 1788. I will teach an Australian historical time line prior to 1788.
Waking up in the morning, going to sleep at night, and doing what one loves in between, is what success means. That, to me, encompasses being able to help people and possibly save lives as a career. There is a nobility in succeeding in certain areas one cares deeply about. Having the ability and capability to protect and serve is a strong desire within me. Developing my education, in order to further my success something that I perceive as a crucial aspect of being able to do what I love. Attending Endicott is the first step in this journey of mine.
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) was enacted in 1986 as a part of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) of 1985. EMTALA was enacted to prevent hospitals with Emergency Departments from refusing to treat or transferring patients with emergency medical conditions (EMC) due to an inability to pay for their services. This act also applies to satellite locations whom advertise titles such as “Immediate Care” or “Urgent Care,” and all other facilities where one-third of their patient intake are walk-ins. Several rules and regulations to this act have been established and it has become a very serious piece of legislation and health
By exploring Iranian womanhood, Neshat is simultaneously exploring political and ideological structures that are unbeknownst to her after she went into exile during the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Due to her observations, Iranian women are characteristic to be the embodiment of Iran’s political transformation” and therefore also explores her personal identity (Neshat, “Art in Exile”). According to lecturer Susan Funkenstein, Rapture is presented unto two screens to convey that as Western viewers, we aren’t able to get the entire picture culturally just as we cannot physically with our focus being split on which side to focus on (Funkenstein,"Globalization”). Aside from gender, there is the dimension of location and its meaning in regards to the
1. Which accounting method best reflects the economic reality? Put another way, which accounting numbers – the GAAP or non-GAAP numbers best reflects economic reality? [10 points]
“Assess own leadership behaviours and potential in the context of a particular leadership model and own organisation’s working practices and culture using feedback from others”
Different historical and cultural barriers affect the way literature and other forms of art are depicted. Maggie Nelson, Azar Nafisi, and Tim O’Brien explore the effect of political and ideological contexts on various forms of art and the way they are created or viewed. In “Great to Watch,” Nelson criticizes the media for not considering the barrier that exists between those who are educated in understanding art and and those who are not because she finds that the people who are not well informed become “desensitized” to what they see. Throughout her story, “Reading Lolita in Tehran,” Nafisi explains the difficulty of being able to enjoy literature during an oppressive time period where a barrier between women and the Islamic regime exists. In the context of war, O’Brien explores the barrier between soldiers and civilians in “How to Tell a True War Story.” All of these authors find that different contexts create barriers that influence the ability of creators of various forms of art to tell their story and the way their audiences perceive them. They notice that political and ideological contexts cause creators and producers to focus their works on highlighting the barriers that exist in our world. Because people have different values and experiences, Nelson, Nafisi, and O’Brien find that the interpretations of works vary. Nelson is able to propose a solution for the barriers she discusses—between the art connoisseurs and the uninformed— while Nafisi and O’Brien become
First and foremost, I must highlight that I am taking a chance here and using the assignment to write about themes in the film that I believe are relevant both in perceptions and modern issues. I utilized the phrase “when did Persians become Arabs,” that the Persian woman uses when her family’s store is robbed, to exemplify the problem of perception and how its magnitude can even influence an entire nationality as a negative connotation. In this film, we repeatedly see the crash -pun intended- of perceptions and realities. However, what is interesting about this cinematographic masterpiece is the constant highlight between both races and economic classes -given that a huge motif is the difference in perception of people from the same race,
Iranian film directors, Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, in their documentary, This is Not A Film, portray the injustices that occur under the Iranian government and its various types of censorships. Their purpose is to exhibit the day-to-day life of an Iranian “criminal” while being ruled by an oppressive government. A forlorn tone is adopted in order to appeal to the sympathy of the viewers.
I work specifically on the topics of “coexistence and contradiction between certainty and uncertainty in modernist Persian fiction”, “literary representations of the interaction between Social changes and family Crisis in post-revolutionary Iran”, and “depression
Although "Araby" is a fairly short story, author James Joyce does a remarkable job of discussing some very deep issues within it. On the surface it appears to be a story of a boy's trip to the market to get a gift for the girl he has a crush on. Yet deeper down it is about a lonely boy who makes a pilgrimage to an eastern-styled bazaar in hopes that it will somehow alleviate his miserable life. James Joyce's uses the boy in "Araby" to expose a story of isolation and lack of control. These themes of alienation and control are ultimately linked because it will be seen that the source of the boy's emotional distance is his lack of control over his life.
Throughout the various texts and films we observed this semester, there were a multitude of underlying themes associated with each. These themes do not live in a textual or film related vacuum, but rather offer major implications on given Middle Eastern cultures. In the fictional film Offside, directed by Jafar Panahi, he decides to zero in on the complex culture within Iran. He illustrates the culture within Iran by employing the 2006 World Cup qualifying soccer match between Iran and Bahrain as a metaphor of the various social dynamics attached to this sporting event and the country as a whole. That said, there are numerous underlying themes associated with this film. In this paper, however, I will
In the beginning of the film we see how assumptions and stereotypes sting and cross boundaries in the lives of everyday citizens, as with the story of Farhad. For example, there is a scene “Play the gehan in your own time,what you want?,i'm i making a
The Iran You Don’t Know Xiaoxi Zhang What words will you use when you are trying to describe Iran? Most of us may think about “fundamentalism, fanaticism and terrorism” (Persepolis, Introduction) because the images we got from news or TVs are always negative; however, Marjane Satrapi tells us a different Iran. In the book Persepolis, even though the Iranian revolution poses obstacles in front of them, Marji and some other Iranians are still trying to survive from this dark period and looking for their freedom and love. Satrapi shows these to us by using anecdotes, humor, contrast, images and irony.