Analyasis Of Culture And Society Today
In 2001, an Iranian director by the name of Mohsen Makhmalbaf produced Safar-e-Quadahar (The Sun Behind the Moon), a powerful, moving film which tells the story of an Afghan-Canadian who returns to Afghanistan to seek out his younger sister who was left behind when the family escaped. There is one scene in particular that portrays the sign of how America lives today, a scene including images from emergency-food being dropped from Red Cross helicopters to Afghan men on crutches running and struggling to catch them. The scene itself does not literally show how we live in the present, but it has an underlying message portraying power, hope and fear, ethical, and social stakes that we deal with on an everyday basis. The way our society acts and thinks today can be based on three fundamental principles derived from the themes expressed in Makhmalbaf’s film scene.
First is how society copes with social trauma and structural violence. Indirectly, a large majority of the population......
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