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mamuzzyRecently I got hooked up on violent Korean TV series like All of Us Are Dead and Squid Game, so I was down to watch something similiar, but honestly, you can't just watch horror or violent movies in cinema late at night here??? Especially with original language.
Gf reminded me that indie cinema is still a thing. We watched Holy Spider, 2022 (عنکبوت مقدس), story setting in Iran in the early 2000s, it's about a journalist woman investigating a serial killer who is killing prostitutes out of religious zeal. It was also interesting that they also showed the side of the serial killer too. We got a little but disturbing window to peek, how their society think about women's place in the world, thoughts about prostitution, drug usage, and how little to no support they get.
And even when the serial killer was caught and executed, you just can't find comfort in it. Because society overall supported the guy. They supported his family. They supported his views, they supported the notion that "rotten women" deserve to die like this. He died like a martyr.
Not an easy piece to watch in a lunch break, that's for sure, but very thought-inducing about cultures where women are basically still treated like property.
Gf reminded me that indie cinema is still a thing. We watched Holy Spider, 2022 (عنکبوت مقدس), story setting in Iran in the early 2000s, it's about a journalist woman investigating a serial killer who is killing prostitutes out of religious zeal. It was also interesting that they also showed the side of the serial killer too. We got a little but disturbing window to peek, how their society think about women's place in the world, thoughts about prostitution, drug usage, and how little to no support they get.
And even when the serial killer was caught and executed, you just can't find comfort in it. Because society overall supported the guy. They supported his family. They supported his views, they supported the notion that "rotten women" deserve to die like this. He died like a martyr.
Not an easy piece to watch in a lunch break, that's for sure, but very thought-inducing about cultures where women are basically still treated like property.
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