What moral or cultural or poetic message does Farrokhzad's The House Is Black impart? How might Farrokhzad's poems help us interpret her film or vice versa?
Farrokhzad's The House is Black was absolutely horrifying to me as well as eye opening. Let me explain, I do not mean horrifying in the way as to describe the appearance of the lepers. I use the word horrifying to describe the message that I feel she is trying to covey. I think she is clearly disgusted with how we as humans can take diseased people and exile them to a place where they can only interact with other diseased people. These lepers are being treated as filthy animals that we would just throw outside and forget about. The first thing that really popped out to me, was the fact that the lepers were still praising God and thanking God for everything. They had every right to be depressed and have no joy at all, but they still danced and laughed and played as if they completely forgot about their disease. I think of the people in todays society who think their nails need to be done every other week, their hair needs to be perfect everyday, they have to have the most expensive clothing and jewelry on, and if they don’t have those things then their life is terrible. We need to start looking at the big picture and realize that our happiness cannot come through materialistic things. We are dooming ourselves as a culture if we continue in this manner. This film really opened my eyes to this. It seems as though Farrokhzad’s poem are very gloomy and there is a lot of emptiness about her. The loss of her son was very hard for her and I think she held onto this sadness and expressed it through her poems.
Farrokhzad's The House is Black was absolutely horrifying to me as well as eye opening. Let me explain, I do not mean horrifying in the way as to describe the appearance of the lepers. I use the word horrifying to describe the message that I feel she is trying to covey. I think she is clearly disgusted with how we as humans can take diseased people and exile them to a place where they can only interact with other diseased people. These lepers are being treated as filthy animals that we would just throw outside and forget about.
ReplyDeleteThe first thing that really popped out to me, was the fact that the lepers were still praising God and thanking God for everything. They had every right to be depressed and have no joy at all, but they still danced and laughed and played as if they completely forgot about their disease. I think of the people in todays society who think their nails need to be done every other week, their hair needs to be perfect everyday, they have to have the most expensive clothing and jewelry on, and if they don’t have those things then their life is terrible. We need to start looking at the big picture and realize that our happiness cannot come through materialistic things. We are dooming ourselves as a culture if we continue in this manner. This film really opened my eyes to this.
It seems as though Farrokhzad’s poem are very gloomy and there is a lot of emptiness about her. The loss of her son was very hard for her and I think she held onto this sadness and expressed it through her poems.