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Interesting... well...it seems like Dara endured much more property damage and at the end he caused the bigger bodily harm to Nader which is only fair considering the retaliation started by Nader. Nader showed disproportionate response because the tearing of the book could have been purely accidental this i believe escalated this incident into a full on confrontation!
lets take a look:
Dara accidentally tore Nader's book, Nader (the bigger and stronger of the two) retaliates by coming over to Dara's desk and tearing his book (violating his private space and without inquiry took action), in response Dara breaks Nader's pencil..a pencil mind you to which Nader tears Dara's leather bag!!.. now that is disproportionate response again.. (just like several we have witnessed in ME not so long ago!!)
..then Dara tears another page of Nader's book (this step overlooked by the supposed impartial moralistic voice over) and Nader this time tears Dara's cloths?!(can you believe that boy? his clothes), this time Dara goes for something big which is just a ruler so he breaks Nader's ruler which is still not as bad as tearing of his leather bag! Nader in response takes Dara's hat and throws it on the ground, the response, Dara takes Nader's scarf and throws it on the ground. everyone knows that a hat is hard to wash because it might shrink and the cardboard used in the bill will ruin in a wash but a scarf could shrink and it would still be usable. at this point the material sanctions turn violet and physical. the violation of those sovereign bodies involved, is started by the bigger boy Nader because he figures he has an advantage over smaller Dara but we all know that size doesn't always matter (arguably with some exceptions of course!) and at the end of that confrontation Nader sustains damage to his head and was bleeding where as Dara had only a black eye!!
even the voice over who is supposed to be an impartial witness and en fact drawing the moralistic conclusions and is the just voice teaching the rest of the kids a lesson has a biased method, as i mentioned above, he does not take into account the order in which the events unfold and deliberately misses over a step!!
Kiarostami is a master film maker, i think he was trying to tell us something!
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.. Well yeah I think Kiarostami was trying to tell us:" I have been mocking you all these years, and you guys don't have a Glue, i mean Clue.."
... Also this movie reminds me of a "Former Child star," who was very famous in "Tapeh Television!!" wonder if he ever auditioned for a Kiarostami movie??
Dara is a petite bourgeoisie. that's what the name itself implies, right? hence the bell bottoms that match his shirt and the red leather bag. Nader, a proletarian, is looking for an excuse to destroy Dara's property. the way Nader looks at Dara sends chills down your spine. it's as if he's ready to rip Dara's head off. being one of the masses, he's bigger and stronger but he somehow ends up with a broken head and realizes that he's destined to be poor and he can't fight it. so in the second chance he gets, he politely approaches Dara and explains the situation. Dara, being so DARA, happens to have a glue stick in his pocket and the problem is resolved.
no wonder none of the proletarian revolutions ever worked..all muscle and no brain!!
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