Publication: Los niños errantes del cine iraní del mito a la historia
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2011
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid: Facultad de Ciencias de la Información
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Este estudio es un esfuerzo por analizar la imagen de los niños y adolescentes en el cine iraní y su relación con la imagen de infancia que existe en la mitología y la literatura persa. El niño sabio aparece en los momentos de crisis, cuando la lógica de los adultos basada en la experiencia y control patriarcal es incapaz de resolver un problema social y todas las líneas de comunicación y diálogo entre el pueblo y los opositores -o bien como una amenaza externa o bien como un tirano gobernante- han llegado a un callejón sin salida. En este momento crucial la inteligencia no contaminada por la lógica del beneficio mediante una estrategia dotada por un alto grado de flexibilidad salva a la identidad colectiva de la crisis y resuelve el problema.
En el cine, este mito aparece en un momento crítico del contacto de los iraníes con la modernidad y se convierte en el protagonista de una serie de películas en un determinado contexto histórico-social. La imagen del niño errante construye una perfecta relación microcósmica con las realidades sociales en una imagen alegórica de una sociedad en el pleno proceso de cambio del sistema de valores, y por lo tanto en una profunda crisis de identidad.
This study is an effort to analyze the image of children and adolescents in Iranian cinema, and its relationship to the image of the childhood that exists in Persian mythology and literature. The wise child appears in the times of crisis, when the logic of the elderly, based on patriarchal experience and control, is unable to solve a social problem, and all lines of communication and dialogue between the people and opponents —either as an external threat or as a tyrant ruler—, have reached an impasse. At this crucial moment, the wise child's particular logic save the people and solve the problem through the intelligence which is not contaminated by the logic of benefit, and through a strategy that is only possible by its high flexibility. In cinema, this myth appears at a critical moment of Iranians contact with the modernity, and becomes the protagonist in a number of Iranian movies in a certain social-historical context. The educational space, moving this character forward, builds a perfect microcosmic relationship with social reality and sometimes turns the text into an allegorical image of a society which is changing value system, and thus in a deep identity crisis.
This study is an effort to analyze the image of children and adolescents in Iranian cinema, and its relationship to the image of the childhood that exists in Persian mythology and literature. The wise child appears in the times of crisis, when the logic of the elderly, based on patriarchal experience and control, is unable to solve a social problem, and all lines of communication and dialogue between the people and opponents —either as an external threat or as a tyrant ruler—, have reached an impasse. At this crucial moment, the wise child's particular logic save the people and solve the problem through the intelligence which is not contaminated by the logic of benefit, and through a strategy that is only possible by its high flexibility. In cinema, this myth appears at a critical moment of Iranians contact with the modernity, and becomes the protagonist in a number of Iranian movies in a certain social-historical context. The educational space, moving this character forward, builds a perfect microcosmic relationship with social reality and sometimes turns the text into an allegorical image of a society which is changing value system, and thus in a deep identity crisis.
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Cine Iraní, Niños Errantes, Mitología Persa, Crisis de Identidad, Espacio Educativo, Iranian Cinema, Wondering Children, Persian Mythology, Identity Crisis, Educational Space
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Vivat Academia. Revista de Comunicación, Año XIV, N. 117E (2011), pp. 1179-1193