Included in Jonathan Rosenbaum’s list of 1000 essential films, Parviz Kimiavi’s The Mongols (1973) is a leftfield satire and sharp commentary on the expanding presence of cinema and television in Iran. The story follows a filmmaker, played by Kimiavi himself and also named Parviz, as he struggles with both his own film and a looming assignment to oversee the installation of a television relay station in the remote province of Zahedan. Imbued by his wife’(🏸)s thesis work on the Mongol invasion of Iran, Parviz’s anxieties coalesce and materialize in the form of surreal visions in which the origins of cinema are acted out by the Turkomans he hired to play Mongols in his own film. Together with Parviz, we watch as the would-be gang of Mongols wander the desert in search of their director and the answers to their pressing questions about the nature of cinema, all while the forthcoming introduction of television consumes the local village and its inhabitants. Kimiavi fashions a fantastical cinematic space rife with bizarre metaphoric imagery and Godardian references to film-making in order to draw a sarcastic parallel between the Mongol invasion and the hyper-accelerated modernization of 1970s Iran.
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一座偏(🤷)僻(pì )的(📋)小镇，一间冷清的酒(🤦)吧，冗长(🤢)无奇的(de )生活因为一(🤫)(yī )个人(🤩)的到来(lái )而(🤥)改变。
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老虎的出(🔔)现令(lì(🚱)ng )热闹的森林(🚎)(lín )瞬间(💗)变得安(ān )静，小动物(📿)们纷纷(👴)逃到安全(🌱)的地方藏了(le )起来(🎣)。老虎(hǔ )走(✉)到一个山(shān )洞门口(🌌)停下(xià(😂) )时，洞里的山羊吓坏(〽)了，但灵(🚿)机一动，它想(🎿)到了好(💼)(hǎo )办法(🍹)。山羊(yáng )假扮(👖)自己是(🌁)(shì )大王，一(🥍)边大声说老虎肉(⏪)真好吃，一(🔁)边(biān )让老虎快进(jì(🗄)n )洞来，后(🚟)来(lái )转念一想，担心(🐺)老虎有(🆚)可能真闯进来，索性(🧝)走出山(🐩)(shān )洞，再用智(📟)(zhì )慧将(🥏)老虎吓(xià )得魂飞魄(🔟)散。
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