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A Low-Budget Sci-Fi Film Shatters Iran’s Sacred Red Lines
A sci-fi film lampooning the Islamic Republic and all that its regime holds sacred premiered quietly at a nondescript venue in Los Angeles in July
- The title, "Velayatnameh," is a spoof on "Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings," an epic by Persian poet Ferdowsi, which recounts the history of pre-Islamic Persia
- Divided into five segments, each unfolding in a different era in the future under a new supreme leader, the film shows a progression in the timeline but not so much in reform
- Set up to emphasize the digital aspect of the image, it opens with a despairing supreme leader seated in his living room in a futuristic high-rise summoning a drone with a camera to record his mea culpa.
- "I tried to stop the corruption but couldn't. You pull the curtain and find bonyads plundering the country," he says, referring to the shadowy parastatal structures that have a stranglehold on major aspects of Iran's economy
- How to tell which is the true leader and which the charlatan?
- Scientists at the lab conduct the Turing Test and identify the supreme cat, but does that mean all is well once again?