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402:. Despite a massive commercial cinema -"film Farsi" - that was the economic backbone for Art House too, directors of New Wave of Iran cinema mostly from the 1960s and 1970s (the time cinema flourished) faced a massive censorship in the 1980s. However they continued their film-making and struggle around censorship but it was obvious cinema was going through a financial crisis and censorship had choked the cinema.
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The movie depicts a very superstitious society in which people believe in an ultimate ultra-mundane power which will save them from the devil, the eternal enemy of mankind. The shadows of this illusion (enemy illusion) are to the extent that the people having a sense of paranoia and are always ready
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and describes how the main character loses himself in the struggle of finding his cow which is his most valuable property. It reveals how much Masht Hassan and his family’s life is depended on the cow both economically and emotionally that Masht Hassan cannot handle the situation logically.
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to confront the conspiracy of their enemies. In such a society, women have no significant role apart from being good wives and mothers who are expected to follow the social norm and be a typical
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The movie is very well-known because of its psychological and social criticisms. There are several psychological messages behind the main character’s delusion of being a cow. It opens up
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