The Protest


	"THE PROTEST"
	*Iran,Color,35mm, 1999, 102 min.*
	*in Farsi with English subtitle*
	SYNOPSIS: Reza & Sharife are engaged to be married and Amir, the protective older brother, kills Sharife when he finds out she's cheating on his brother, in order to protect his brother from any emotional reaction he might have. After 12 years pass and Amir gets out of prison, he finds his brother in love with another girl and himself out of a job without much luck in finding one. Meanwhile he is also renounced by his brother and rejected by all potential employers because of his prison records.


	Directors View:
	My two points of view on the Protest:
	1- I have left behind the socializing tendency of my earlier films. The script of Protest is devoid of political allusions; it is rather structured on the problems of the daily life, and it in this respect a fresh experience for me. Not that it does not follow the general trend of my past films; it is a new beginning for me from a formal, structural point of view. 2-Protest is different from my other pictures in its pictorial framing, in its overall physical appearance. I have distanced myself from my typical protagonist, and in a way I have bid him farewell. But in the general story line I have preserved my faith in the ideal, independent protagonist. Given the time and opportunity for more films I could say that the warp and woof of Protest will furnish the core of my coming work. I consider Protest a social picture."