What is the movie “Holy Spider”

The International companies and agencies, led by the Germans, have contributed more than 1.1 million euros to the anti-Iranian film “Holy Spider”.

 Boraq Hamim news website_ The Islamic Revolution of Iran is based on religious values ​​and one of the examples of the cultural confrontation of global arrogance with the Islamic Revolution of Iran is its influence in international art and cultural festivals. Westerners, with the slightest excuse they can get, use their special magnifications to turn this excuse into a tool for attacking religious values, and regardless of the cultural and artistic content of a work, they base their principle on undermining religious values ​​and sanctities. It is considered the most effective way to counter this revolution.

What happened at Cannes 2022 is based on the same policy, and highlighting a film by choosing its actress as the festival’s chosen actress was exactly in line with the goal of opposing Islam and Iran. Due to this incident, a report on the film “Holy Spider” and how it was used against Islam and Iran at the Cannes Film Festival will be presented to the dear readers of the newspaper.

The Jomhuri Eslami newspaper has mentioned these points, reminding that according to the received news, the film was produced by Samuel Hadida, the Jewish director of the Metropolitan Company.

* Filming in Jordan
Holy Spider is a 2022 film in the genre of horror drama and real crime, written by Ali Abbasi and Afshin Kamran Bahrami and directed by Ali Abbasi. Zahra Amir Ebrahimi, Mehdi Bejestani, Forouzan Jamshidnejad, Arash Ashtiani, Sina Parvaneh, Nima Akbarpour and Sara Fazilat are among the actors in this film.

The film was shot in Jordan and is based on the true story of Saeed Hanaei, the serial killer known as the spider killer who is said to have targeted prostitutes and killed 16 women in Mashhad from 2000 to 2001. An female journalist is investigating It depicts a serial killer. Roya Karimi Majd is now an employee of Radio Farda’s anti-Iranian website and worked on the case at the time.

The Holy Spider was selected to compete for the Palme d’Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, and was screened on May 1, 1401. Zahra Amir Ebrahimi won the Best Actress award at this festival. The film is scheduled to be released in cinemas in France on July 22, 1401.

* Synopsis
A journalist, played by Zahra Amir Ebrahimi, enters a world in which a man, whom the media calls a spider killer, commits a reprehensible act. When Saeed is arrested and sentenced to death, public opinion turns him into a hero.

Ali Abbasi, the film’s director, was a student at the time of the killings in Tehran and was confused by the conservative reaction that portrayed Hanaei as a hero and how long it took for police to arrest him. Abbasi started writing copies of the film shortly after watching Hanaee’s interview in the documentary “And the Spider Came” in 2002. “Strangely, I really felt sorry for the man against my will,” he said. I think there was a psychotic aspect to the pleasure of his murders and complex sexuality, etc., but there was also innocence in him. It was more about how a society creates a serial killer.

* Show anti-feminist Iranians!

The original drafts of the script followed the events more faithfully, but Abbasi eventually deviated from them and invented the character of a female journalist because he felt that the film should focus not only on the killer but also on misogyny. “I did not want to make a film about a serial killer, I wanted to make a film about the society of a serial killer,” he admitted. This is about xenophobia, rooted in Iranian society, which is not specifically religious or political, but cultural … Instead of making another film about different ways men kill and mutilate women, we want to focus on the complexity of the issue and the dangers of different parties, especially On behalf of the victims.

Production of the film officially began in 2016, which was strengthened with the success of the Swedish film “Border” by Abbasi in 1397. The filmmakers first tried to shoot in Iran, but this was postponed until 2009. A filming program was made in Jordan in early 1399, which was delayed several times due to the Corona virus epidemic. Then, in late 1399, it was decided to move production to Turkey, where Covid-19 restrictions were less, but this was stopped by Turkish authorities. Abbasi has claimed that this was due to the intervention of the Iranian government! Production then returned to Jordan, where filming finally began in May 1400 and lasted 35 days. Abbasi said that Bajestani had taken a big risk by playing the role of the killer.

* Germany, the main role in financing the “Holy Spider”

The film received production subsidies of € 240,000 from the German Film Fund, € 2,250 from the Berlin-Brandenburg City Board, € 410 from the Euromaggers, € 90,000 from the Hamburg-Schleswig-Holstein Film Fund and about € 174,000. Germany received. 

Utopia acquired North American rights to the film in May 1401. Moby bought the film for Britain, Ireland, Latin America and Malaysia.

Variety reported that the Holy Spider was applauded for 7 minutes at the first screening of the Cannes Film Festival, writing that “it will certainly be one of the films discussed at this year ‘s Cannes Film Festival” and “caused a stir that could be a first for the Palme d’Or.” ». On Raton Tomitoz’s review site, the film received 88% approval and an average score of 7.6 out of 10 based on 24 reviews. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, gave the film a score of 75 out of 100 based on just 11 reviews.

The view of the critics of Screen Film Magazine, in which the share of European critics is prominent, but the Abbasi film was not very positive. This group of critics, by giving an average score of 2 out of 4 to Abbasi film, have evaluated this work as quite average. This score was recorded while out of 10 critics of Screen magazine, 4 critics considered the film worthy of bad (no star) or poor (one star) rating. On the other hand, two critics have given the film 4 stars, which shows that Abbasi’s film has caused some serious and obvious differences of opinion among the critics of Screen Magazine, and has divided them into two categories on both sides of the spectrum.

* What were the reactions?
The Cinema Organization of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance issued a statement about the film, condemning the Cannes Film Festival’s attention to the film and the awarding of the Best Actress award to Zahra Amir Ebrahimi, calling it a political and anti-Iranian action. The Cinema Organization also said in the statement that the Holy Spider was made not only of a purely political nature, but also of a ridiculous pictorial nightmare, the product of the confused mind of an Iranian-Iranian, arrogant and arrogant gold. Stating that the film “Holy Spider” has insulted the beliefs and values ​​of Muslims and Shiites, the organization clarified that the filmmakers have followed in the footsteps of Salman Rushdie in evil verses.

Pictures of a poster and a scene from the movie “Holy Spider” were published, which angered cyberspace users for insulting Imam Reza (as). In a scene from this film, the audience is induced to feel as if they are watching a large spider web and the Razavi shrine is in the center! Cultural and media activists protested against this incident and the insult of this film to the holy shrine of Hazrat Reza (AS), who is the most beloved and is believed by the people of Iran and the Shiites. Azari Jahromi, the former Minister of Communications, also reacted by publishing a picture of the shrine of Hazrat Reza (AS) and writing a poem by Mohammad Hossein Malekian.

One documentary writer wrote: “The Holy Spider is unfortunately a completely anti-Iranian and anti-Islamic film and an emotional justification for further sanctions on Iran.” Unfortunately, the Iranians who support or participate in such actions facilitate more pressure on the people and the country.

Hamed Asgari, a poet and presenter, published a story and wrote: “Imam Reza (AS) is kinder than these words to anger you, and I do not swear or insult. “You sold the kindest gentleman in the world very cheaply.” Another user, referring to the serious distortions in the narration of the so-called spider murders, Saeed Hanaei, considered this film as an attempt to connect religion with these murders and has no citation or even cinematic value.

 * Explicit politicization in Cannes 2022
The 75th Cannes Film Festival in France ended on June 27, 1401 with a closing ceremony and the awarding of prizes to the winners. This period of the Cannes Film Festival, like its recent periods, turned more to political and ideological propaganda than to art and cinema. The opening ceremony of the festival was held with the broadcast of a video message from the President of Ukraine Zelensky. The incident provoked a critical reaction from the famous French director Jean-Luc Godard, who said in an interview with the Liberation newspaper: “[Cannes] is also a propaganda weapon. “After all, their job is to propagate Western aesthetics.” And Iran, as always, has been the target of this propaganda weapon this year.

The Cannes Film Festival 2022 also selected Iranian films and cinematographers with the same politicized and anti-racist approach. In this way, he chose insulting works against Iranians and the religion of Islam as the representative of Iranian cinema! According to the audience at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the Iranian films accepted at Cannes 2022 were accepted more than their artistic and cinematic power due to their anti-Iranian and anti-Islamic images.

One of these works was the film “Holy Spider”, which can be considered more than a film as a visual propaganda against the people of Iran and the religion of Islam. The film was made in Jordan by a group of expatriate Iranians. This film shows a very disgusting picture of Iranians; But what is more prominent in the film “Holy Spider” is the anti-Islamic content of the film and the inhuman portrayal of the religious people of Iran. The film “Holy Spider” has a repetitive subject as its theme. This film has chosen the subject of a serial killer, and another Iranian film with the same subject and almost the same name (Spider) was released in our country’s cinemas last year. It is noteworthy that the director of the film had previously objected to the theft of the subject by his Turkish colleague.

The film “Holy Spider” attributes the behavior of a serial killer who committed a murder due to a mental disorder to Iranian-Islamic values! So much so that BBC Persian, with the headline “Murder of women in the name of God”, welcomed the film and wrote in part: The filmmaker does not hesitate to portray a few nude sexual scenes, and Mr. Abbasi openly films Builds around this theme from the beginning, and in fact, willingly or unwillingly, the film becomes an obvious tunnel into the heart of blindly religious beliefs in one of the most traditional cities in Iran.

* Award to the marginal actor

Amir Ebrahimi was awarded the Best Actress Award at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, and she spoke about the suffering of the Iranian people, especially Abadan. The opinion of most critics and film experts in Cannes was other actors, but the award was given to the actor of “Holy Spider” because they had invested in this film; But due to the film’s weakness, they could not award it the best film or director, and in order to present this anti-Iranian and anti-Islamic film, they had to give it an award that the immigrant actor received because of the margins he already had. The role of Asghar Farhadi in the jury is also worth considering for other judges to pay attention to Amir Ebrahimi’s film and acting.

Although Amir Ebrahimi has not had any restrictions on traveling to Iran all these years, he has preferred never to return to Iran, and as a result, for many years he has not had any connection with the Iranian people in his voluntary choice, who now mourns their suffering! Accordingly, it was better to talk about the problems and troubles of the immigrant community in Europe in the tribune of this festival. The problems that he himself has touched all these years of hardship and unemployment and has tasted as a second-class citizen. For example, it was enough to quote Pope Francis (the world’s Catholic leader) last month, who said, “We are racists. And that’s bad, the fact that many countries welcome war-torn Ukrainian refugees more than refugees from other parts of the world has no name other than racism. Of course, this was the pain of many immigrants, including himself, in the European Union, and it could not be allayed by the pope’s repeated remarks at his asylum festival, although he might no longer be featured as an Iranian (!) In Western festivals. Of course, from someone who has been forced to act in an anti-Iranian film for his daily livelihood, which allows not only Iran but even the mockery of the court of the kind Imam of Iranians and Shiites in Mashhad; It is unreasonable to expect this level of freedom.

Surprisingly, some reformists expressed satisfaction with the award. For example, Mohammad Ali Abtahi, the head of Khatami’s office in the reformist government, tweeted: “Zahra Amir Ebrahimi showed that when there is a problem in your life, you can get up again and reach the top. Congratulations to himself and congratulations to all those who set out.

* Complete the anti-Iranian show now

In another part of the anti-Iranian show, the agents of another Persian-language film, in order to show Iran and Iranians as miserable as possible, snatch the lead from each other in lying. The actress who claimed yesterday that women’s swimming is forbidden in Iran and despite the invitation of the officials of the Iranian Swimming Federation to watch the women’s swimming championship in our country, preferred to remain silent and not bring it on herself, this time claiming to suffocate and saying that everything is forbidden in Iran And people are fighting obstacles every day from morning to night!

And of course, no one asked him how he was able to act in more than 20 films and series, send books to the publishing market and receive awards from Iranian government festivals in the event of such repression and repression !? And in case of such suffocation, how can he move freely inside Iran despite these radical and untrue statements outside the borders !? Taraneh Alidosti, who claims to have compassion for the Iranian people in this speech, had previously agreed to play a role in the series “Shahrzad”, the producer of whose corruption in looting people’s property from the Cultural Reserve Fund was quite obvious. In fact, the actress was receiving her billion-dollar salary from the looted property of Iran’s honorable cultural figures, and she was fully aware of this. These days, while leading the fight against moral corruption in Iranian cinema, he has the hashtag #Mi_Too, which until yesterday he and his like-minded people were the founders of the #we_without team project!

But the bitterest screen of the anti-Iranian play happened when the actors of the play refused to sympathize with their Iranian counterparts even once and opened their mouths to complain about Europe and the United States for not fulfilling their obligations to Iran and imposing illegal sanctions. They were not even as honorable as Alena Dohan, the UN special envoy for unilateral sanctions, to point the finger of blame at the United States and Europe only once in the midst of their miserable representations of the Iranian people, saying: “US unilateral sanctions have caused “Human rights are being violated.” Because they do not live with the Iranian people at all. They showed that foreigners from Iran and Iranians are Western soldiers to humiliate the Iranian people.

Massoud Frost, a well-known cinema critic, wrote in this regard to the creators of “Leila Brothers”: Do not be proud of today’s award and do not ignorantly present it to the grieving people of Abadan. Do not accept the humiliation of the burden of begging. Make your film for the audience here, not there with all its prizes. No serious filmmaker makes a film award.

French director Jean-Luc Godard was right when he said, “Cannes is a propaganda weapon,” and unfortunately the Iranian people were still cowardly targeted.

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Source: Fars