Closed Curtain

Closed curtain was the first movie I had watched in the 18^th international film festival Kerala. It was my first film festival experience and it was also the first time which I was introduced to world films. I was surprised by the first shot of the movie which was a wide shot from a house in which the characters were entering and was coming closer and the shot lasted in a static position for more than two minutes. I was in a confused state throughout the movie that I didn’t understand what was happening in the story line and I did not got the character link as well. The interesting thing about the movie was it is not just a movie to watch and go; it will force us to think about it on our own point of view.
After watching the movie I couldn’t stop myself from reading more about the director of the movie Jafar Panahi and about the movie itself. Because I just wanted to know the whole sense and life of that movie. I also wanted to make sure that what I understood from the movie shouldn’t contradict from the real sense of meaning of the movie, or else I feel it difficult to get along with such intellectual film making.

I found myself right about the movie interpretation after reading about the Iranian movie. In the movie panahi portrays different characters within himself and he tries to convey the annoyance happening to the writer with in him all because of the protest and banning happened to him with in the country. The writer in the movie is the writer with in panahi himself and the dog with him symbolize his creation and creativity which the orthodox Muslim government tries to irradiate and tries to put a tie to his film career, so he always try to keep the dog away from the strangers.. The girl named Melika who seem to be a in throughout the movie is the image of protestant within the director. The entry of director as himself makes the movie more interesting , at the end of the movie all the director took with him was the writer with in him and his creativity and his works that means the dog while the Melika watching.

I was so happy that the first movie I watched was a very different and unique one and I understood the fact that there is nothing in the world which can held a creative person from expressing his ideas. It was really worth watching that movie and I am looking forward to watch more Panahi movies.