(تم النسخ بواسطة TurboScribe.ai. الترقية إلى غير محدود لإزالة هذه الرسالة.) Watching close-up by Kiarostami, have you seen
that one?
Yeah, that for me refocused my whole way
of thinking, watching this film close-up.
You must see this thing.
It's on DVD, Kiarostami, Iranian film, that hit
me as strongly as watching for the first
time.
I can't say for the first time because
I was five years old when I saw
neorealist films for the first time, but has
that emotional impact, I feel.
And so it's, I find myself not watching
modern films as much as possible.
Again, older stuff.
And if I'm looking at more modern films,
they're usually independent or they're usually Southeast Asian
or Iranian or that sort of thing.
I'm thinking of close-up.
I've been thinking of close-up since I've
seen it after that festival, you know, which
by the way, we had a great time
at.
Became very good friends.
I'm thinking of Sabzian, is that how you
pronounce it?
Yeah.
In close-up, when he's speaking before the
court about why he pretended to be Moshe
Makhmalbaf.
Quote, they gave me their attention.
He's talking about the family now that he
deceived.
They gave me their attention and respect, he
says, of the family.
Quote, because of my passion for cinema, and
above all, because they respected me and supported
me morally, I really got into the part.
It encouraged me to play the role better
to where I even felt I was a
director.
I really was.
But when I'd leave and I'd head back
home, I'd have to shed the character.
Unquote.
You know, what he couldn't do in his
everyday life, the life of a poor guy
who couldn't even afford to buy his kids
some treats.
He could do that in the role of
Makhmalbaf.
And that is interact one-on-one with
the members of the family without being judged
or condescended to or ignored altogether.
Through the experience of cinema, creating cinema, even
without filming the camera, he exists and he
matters.
You know, why did he have to play
the role of a director?
Well, could have been a businessman, but it's
not about money.
It's not about money.
It's about mutual respect.
It's about humanity.
So I'm so moved by this.
I was so moved by that film.
That was a complete change in terms of
seeing the world again.
I know I'm repeating myself, but it really
is an extraordinary film.
The spirit of the artistry, which makes me
see people in the world in a new,
refreshing and hopeful way.
OK, there are camera movements, there's editing, there's
non-editing angles, style, spectacle.
And I guess to a certain extent, that's
all true.
You know, all these things add to a
certain love of cinema, right?
But technique and technical sophistication affects us only
to the extent that they help work to
create simple, direct contact between the filmmaker and
the audience.