Unruled Paper (film)

Unruled Paper Persian Kghaze bi Khatt is a 2002 Iranian film directed by Nser Taghvi his first after twelve years, based on an original script by Nser Taghvi and Minoo Farshchi. The film was produced in 2001 by Yekt Film.

The film starts with a scene of a sitting room, empty of people, at some two minutes tooclock in the morning, and ends with a scene of the same empty room at some two minutes pastoclock in the morning of some weeks later this passage of time is accurately depicted by the brightness of the natural light that is reflected on the wall of a corridor, that leads to this sitting room, in the initial and final scenes. The meticulous attention that Taghvi has given to the accurate representation of even the most mundane aspects of the film would at first sight seem to be at odds with the fact that with the exception of the opening and closing scenes, in all other scenes where the clock on the wall of the sitting room is in sight, its pendulum is conspicuously motionless. The opening scene depicts some moments before the family starts a very active day the day at which the two children of the family, Shangul and Mangul, have their first schoolday after the summer schoolholiday and the closing scene, the end of a protracted Friday night, during which Jahngir and Roy have spent an intellectually and emotionally exhausting night. The motionless pendulum suggests that the events in the intervening period have taken place out of time, or only in imagination. Although the work presented by Taghvi certainly qualifies as a surrealist artform, this motionless pendulum serves as a more profound tool than a means that solely hints at surrealism. Taghvi conveys a number of unobtrusive verbal and visual messages to his viewers. Briefly, Taghvi and Ms Minoo Farshchi, the coauthor of the film script, variously refer to the theory of eternal recurrence, as revived by e.g. Friedrich Nietzsche, with a strong emphasis on the importance of having a creative mind thereby to forge room for free will in at least an imaginative world.Jahngir is a draughtsman, or perhaps an architect. Roy is normally a housewife, but has recently started to attend a course on writing film scripts,

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