The Salesman (Forushande in Farsi, in original) is an outstanding and mesmerizing Iranian movie released in 2016. I think I like the word mesmerizing. This movie won the Oscar for the Foreign Language Movie in 2017, a controversial year with weak movies. The Salesman came up like the oil in water. As a reminder, 2017 was the year I haven't published my Oscar winners because of movies like Moonlight, La La Land, 20th Century Women... On top of that, the circus at the ceremony, the … [Read more...]
Turkey and Turkish politics – part four
With the previous post on the topic, I ended the period of Turkey's formation as a "modern" country, a period where the people was ordered to look to the European West instead of Mecca. I haven't mentioned the fact that Iran's Shah Reza Pahlavi I, was a great admirer of Atatürk, wanting to do the same, in Iran. More to know of The expat Shah's father, is his admiration for another "great" man of the modern history. When you wish for power and you got it, you may think that … [Read more...]