Under the Moonlight

2001 Cannes Film Festival Critics Week Unit Best Film Award 2001 Tokyo International Film Festival Best Director Award, Jury Award Seminary student Seyyed Hassan is about to be promoted to the priest, but before the inauguration ceremony, his dress was stolen by a little boy. So he tracked him down to a remote suburb where the residents lived in poverty, had never seen a priest, and knew little about it. In the end, Sayed learns an important lesson: There is a gap between religious teachings and the hard realities of life, and this gap needs to be filled with emotion. Director Reza Mirkarimi emphasized in his speech at the Tokyo International Film Festival that he wanted to tell everyone that Islam is actually a very peace-loving religion and also opposes terrorism. It is not a violent religion. Everything in this film made by Asians of the same origin and species as us made me feel familiar and familiar. The naive and overwhelmed expressions of young people, the official but sincere teachings of school elders, the dim and old shops, the humblest people in the corners of the city, and the slow life, all these are like what we have experienced and seen on our way to growth. How honest they are. Iran's poverty and backwardness are clearly revealed. But I dare say that I am not the only one who was moved by this film.