Argo - Why No One Should See It

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Argo- Why No One Should See It.



I saw the lastest Ben Affleck nightmare yesterday.



It could not be more islamophobic if it tried.



The entire film plot is about 6 americans in Tehran during the Iranian Revolution.



Cause that was the atrocity, that americans working in the embassy were stuck in Tehran.



Not the thousands upon thousand of Iranians who suffered. At either the hands of the Shah or Khomeini.



I am not saying the Iranian revolution was something pretty. It really wasn’t.



However here is some of the examples that I found particularly disturbing in the portrayal of Iran in Affleck’s Argo.



- When the Iranian people spoke Farsi in the film there were no english subtitles. If an american spoke farsi there magically appeared subtitles.



- Every single Iranian in the film was angry. This was the only emotion they could express. According to Argo all Iranians are hostile.



- Showed no culture, not a single educated Iranian of there own right. The one time an Iranian was educated was one guard who studied in the West so he would know how to ‘trick’ the americans. Maybe two examples if you count the people in the Iranian embassies in Turkey who spoke English but fell easily to the American’s lies.



- There was one “good” Iranian who was a housekeeper to the Canadian amabassdor. No character development at all, she serves her purpose and leaves. Apparently fled to Iraqi cause thats going to end well for her children.



- The streets of Iran were made to look like the streets of hell. The streets are shown with either one of these characteristics 1. angry Iranian mob protestors who are in favour of the Khomeini 2. militia terrorizing and murdering it own citizens 3. Dead bodies such as a person being hung form a crane, actually they just keep referring to that one body over and over again 4. A car on fire with aperson in it burning alive and no one cares. No fire trucks, no police. no samaritans.



You see these bodies but there is no reason with in the film to care. It is just desensitizing north american audiences to seeing dead Iranians. They are supremely objectified in death and life.



- At the end when they did the “this is a true story, this is how the future lives of americans went da da da “part they never mention the future of Iran or the Iranian characters. None of them. Iran is hell end of story. No one cares especially not Affleck.



- The Shah is the good guy of course. And the ” Islamic Republic” is bad. Emphasis on Islam republic in a very specific close up shot of a man writing that.



Affleck, was your film funded by racist conservatives ? I mean really WTF were you thinking.



This movie plays out as another American propaganda film about how Iran should be target #2. That all americans should think that country is filled with uncivillized monsters. Funny enough it is one of the countries who refuses to have any foreign policy with the U.S.



Do yourself a favour and if you want a reasonable portrayal of the Iranian revolution and a sample of the culture rent Persepolsis (2007) written and directed by Iranian refugee and graphic artist Marjane Satrapi.