This is also a political documentary, but even goes further than Jai Bhim Comrade in terms of taking film as a kind of political act. As Jai Bhim Comrade is a film about the oppressed, the director of This is not a film is the oppressed. He made this film because he was sentenced to a 6-year-imprisonment and a 20-year-ban by the Iranian government,he was under house-arrest during the bail-out. Shooting himself at home is itself a political resistance.
This film is also reflexively about the authenticity of film / documentary. What is real and what is fictitious? At the first part of the film, Panahi set the camera himself probably on a tripod, framing how he had breakfast and talked in phone. He found it problematic as he was “pretending” to be “natural” in front of the camera like a CCTV. He always borne the consciousness of himself directing and acting as long as he did this. Panahi thought it was like lying to the viewers, so he called a friend to his place and took the place of a director. He used his own work Ayneh (1997) to explain the issue of reality and fiction as shown and confused in film. He also tried to talk about his “next” work (if only he was allowed to make it) in front of the camera, but he stopped soon, saying “If we can talk a film, why make a film?”
I think Ayneh as as example, and the rest of this house-arrest film are kind of responding his own question. There is so many things out of control about a film. Ayneh is a child film, the little actress suddenly refused acting during the filming, and she just headed back home. Pahahi just followed her and made that process a part of the film. For the the production of a documentary, it is apparent that unexpected incidents always occur. The pet lizard in his house walked and climbed around, the neighbor suddenly knocked the door and asked Panahi to look after her little dog, and the coincident appearance of a young dustman are moments that were out of control, but these moments have enriched the contents of the film. Actually the political oppression is also out of control from the point of view of Panahi; and Panahi was out of control in the government's eyes. This is not a film has shown how letting things out of control can be a kind of political resistance.
正如你想象,一个几乎是被囚禁在家的人的生活注定是平淡得如白开水一般,帕纳西能拍的无非是与朋友电话聊天的内容以及对着镜头的自言自语,不过在这短短的几十分钟内却有几个镜头将我狠狠击中。第一个镜头是在帕纳西与律师通话后。帕纳西在电话中询问申诉的结果,他的律师告诉他20年的禁拍处罚可以减免,但由于法官批驳,6年的监禁可能减但不能免。在帕纳西多次与律师确认后他接受了不得不坐牢的事实,他感谢律师为他做的一切并挂了电话。他抬起头,对着镜头苦笑,眼镜后面那双疲惫的双眼一览无遗。他说这一切让他想起自己的那部《谁能带我回家》。《谁能带我回家》叙述了一个打着石膏的小女孩放学后久等等不到接她的妈妈,最后决定独自找路回家的故事。影片中扮演那个小女孩的小演员Mina Mohammad Khani曾在演到一半时突然决定退出,她歇斯底里地叫着“我不拍了”并要求剧组让她离开。她讨厌这个角色,她讨厌这一切,因为她总是在扮演与她真实身份不同的人。她明明找得到回家的路,但剧组却让她表现出找不着路的样子。她想做她自己,她想逃离出这个被别人强加在自己身上的角色,一个傀儡般任人摆弄的陌生人。帕纳西对着镜头感叹现在的他和Mina没有任何的区别。他是一个才华横溢的导演,他的灵感永不枯竭。可他现在却不得不呆在家里扮演一个陌生人,一个被政府控制着,什么都不能做人。Mina还可以对着剧组发脾气,宣泄自己的不满,而面对蛮不讲理的集权政府,帕纳西能做的唯有苦笑。从他疲惫的双眼中读到的只有无尽的痛楚和无奈。
这真的不是一部电影,影像本身远没有它背后的意义有趣,因为触犯了伊朗电影的审查制度,宣传了国家的负面形象,伊朗导演贾法·帕纳西被判六年刑期,二十年内不得拍片。对于一个创作欲强烈的艺术家,这简直太没有人性了,影片最后字幕说献给伊朗电影人,敢情天朝的导演们都活在人间天堂啊。★★★★
#观影手记# 1225 广电总局当然恶心,但一味抱怨审片制度的中国导演真该看看伊朗同行做了些什么。
让学艺术史的研究生来收每家每户的垃圾,真是黑出翔。
“如果能讲一部电影,那我们为什么还要拍电影?”
当理发师无聊的时候,他们就互相理发。这不是电影,这是无畏的嘲讽。
这真的不是一部电影,我们也真的不是观众
帕纳西的搬演尝试令内外的观众都感到困惑,而当搬演结束时(真的只是纪录吗?),电影人闲谈着互拍着,突然一切就生动起来了,随后一个电梯连接了所有的现实,也是世界赐予他的小礼物吧。
除了政治上正确,这个纪录片哪里好?
在這作品前,連金基德的阿里郎也變得自戀造作.一方面呼應亞巴斯近十年的電影實驗,反思電影,重新認清電影的本質,更重要是電影對自身和別人的重要性.別一方面是表達創作的自由,就算被禁拍二十年也不能壓抑一個導演的創作慾望.一部手機,也能拍出對生命的希望,幾場自導自演的演出,也足以讓觀眾動容
看过他的《出租车》,当时的评价是:哪里是伊朗,分明是中国。他曾经做过阿巴斯的副导演,其实阿巴斯的某些电影,如果你不看画面,只听,也几乎百分百的可以认为发生在中国。政教合一的国家都是差不多的。伊朗的生活水平其实也跟我们差不多的啊!
虽然您的遭遇让人同情,专制独裁让人痛恨,可这个片子真没多大意思,不评分了。
这确实不是一部电影,而是伊朗的现实。被困于家中的导演,已经被剥夺了拍片的权利,只能靠拍摄这样关于自己的影片,来曲折地表达着自己的意见。虽然足不能出户,但却通过种种方式,让外界的情况通过镜头表现出来。不得不承认,导演的功力还是相当深厚的。
梭罗亚斯德教的象征就是拜火。影片形散神不散,要了解伊朗的政治、宗教、历史背景,近现代历史,以及制作人的个人经历,会发现环环相扣。有幸在多伦多电影节上看到,竟然是免费的。制片人没有拿到签证而缺席,但是效果并不减少半分。
最后出场的小哥感觉是演美剧出生的...
🏠🎥 好棒的结尾。w/S&L
what's the point of getting a Master degree, we won't find a job anyway.
帕纳希谈自己的电影,谈生活,谈笼中禁锢不了的自由。恰好亚洲还有个贾导,不过他是国师的候选,比帕纳希听话多了,也识相多了
“这不是一部电影”,正如玛格丽特的名作《这不是一只烟斗》,对伊朗政府审查制度的讽刺和对电影艺术的反思共存。倘若没有被禁20年拍片,6年监禁,自然也不会有这份思考。一天的记录,艺术性远不及背后深意。需要这样的电影。
接下来就要失去自由整整六年的时间,换做我或许不会如此平静。最后那个收垃圾的帅哥很有意思。向逆境中的电影人致敬
五星。