"The White Cow Song" .. a widow fighting the guillotine of the judiciary and the whips of Iranian society

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Perhaps it was possible for another woman in the status and circumstances of Mina, the heroine of this story, to acquiesce to the law of society, and surrender to the rule of the high judiciary, so that she accepts the death of her husband unjustly, and lives in the confines of his family, where she marries her brother who desires him, and raises her little daughter who does not hear or does not hearShe speaks, and she is that talented girl filled with tenderness, tenderness, and the intelligence of feeling, but Mina with her strong personality will not be acquired for all of the above, and during that she will take care of her daughter, and she will reveal to us in simple austere scenes the extent of bureaucracy and duplication of the repressive state.

The story of Mina begins with the Iranian movie "Ballad of a White Cow", from a white cow in a large imprisonment yard, but what has created it here, what to do, and what its relationship with the prisoners, or is its relationship dependent on the same imprisonment that will be built fromAbout the heroine?

Perhaps a reference to Surat Al -Baqara and the sacrifice that Moses demanded in exchange for the killing of a man, but what is the relationship between the prison and the dairy factory and the deaf girl of the dumb?

Perhaps this formation is symbolic as a semantic of the minimum class in Iran, all of this can be removed with different readings later and gradually since the opening scenes, when we know the news of the execution of the heroine husband for accusing him of the accident of theft of the killing of the stolen victim.

"A whole year has passed" .. The contradiction of witnesses absolves the husband after his execution

In the next scene, we realize that a whole year has passed since the execution, as the brother of Mina's husband cuts the road to her, saying to her, "A whole year has passed, you have the right to release me, to make yourself happy and your heart, and suffice from torturing it", so Mina looks at him a meaningful look likeShe tells him that she understands him well, so he follows, "You know that I am liked, and I want to marry you," so she pays him away by contempt, then continues her way.

But from now on, he will not stop harm it, as it will begin to chase, monitor and pursue them whenever it is possible to close all the ports in front of them, as if he has no other concern, and that this woman has become his only profession in charge of obtaining it, but the real surprise and shock on the face of the heroine we will see in the next sceneAnd that is when she was informed of the court of innocence of her husband who was unjustly executed, as the two witnesses - and they were the two real partners in theft - and one of them confessed to the other.

الزوجة وشقيق زوجها بعد إخبارهما ببراءة زوجها الذي تم إعدامه ظلما

After that, the person in charge of the court expresses his regret for the execution of the death sentence, but the wife does not want this regret, as this will not return her husband, and this regret will not compensate for her heavy loss, but rather she wants revenge for her husband and the father of her daughter who loves him, as he was her only support in that societyThe harsh, now she wants to meet the judge who sentenced his death sentence, wants to ask him why her husband did not believe when he kept screaming again and again that he is innocent?

She now wants to retribution from that judge, and you will not be satisfied with it as an alternative.

Mina .. a widow fights the injustice of the judiciary and the oppression of society

Mina submits a number of petitions to the court against the judge, but it all rejects, where the judge’s colleagues assert that it is the will of God, which makes us wonder: Where is the will of God from the act of the crime himself, and why is the treatment with two criteria, where is the retribution, or because the judge belongs to the higher class that issues judgments?

Time passes like an age and the situation remains the same, the court refuses, and Mina sits like a conformity in the dairy factory in which she works, while the husband's brother continues to harass her because she will repel him whenever he tries to get close to her, then the role of neighbors in attack, pressure and extortion comes because she is a single woman without a man, as if she isAn object that lacks eligibility.

الأم مينا مع ابنتها من ذوي الإحتياجات الخاصة وحوار إنساني لم يتوقف

Although she works and enters herself and her child without extending her hand to anyone, society and neighbors do not have mercy, as they ask her to leave the housing as long as she is unmarried, so she begins to search for another housing, but whenever one of the directors of rental offices visit, he refuses to explain the owners who consider divorcees and widowsLike dogs and cats, as they refuse to accommodate them, then the role of the neighbors comes by saying: If those around you knew that you are a widow, they would threw your things to the street.

Despite all of the above, Mina does not give in to the laws and rulings of society, because she decided to do what she wants, she insisted that she not give up her rights, and that a lady of the decision herself, and that she does not leave her personality to be attached to a society that treats women as a tenth -degree citizen, or puts them inAnimal rank.

The husband's friend .. a gift of destiny to pay an old debt

One day on Sunday, the door bell beats, and Mina opens to find a man who allowed the face to see the kindness to Simah, we see him for the first time telling her that he has a friendship relationship since the school days of her husband, and that he was our debt with an amount of money, and that it was time to pay his debt.

The amount was large, and the wife is in astonishment because her husband never told her, but she feels comfortable for this man, as he insists that the procedures for granting her the amount of money owed to him are ended, so she goes with him to the bank, then he insists on connecting her to his car to her workplace, while she is not She realizes that the husband's brother is still monitoring her to tighten the siege around her, he threatens her, and she will not fear him, but the wife of the owner of the house in which she lives is asking her to leave at the end of the month because her husband has seen her with a man who is not incest, she tries to explain and justify, but the other woman does not A trick with her hand, it is just a tool to communicate orders in a society that places huge restrictions on women.

مينا تلتقي بالرجل الطيب صديق زوجها، وذلك في رحلة بحثها عن شقة في مجتمع يرفض المطلقات والأرامل

The husband's friend (the good man) is known as the problem of Mina regarding the housing that he caused without telling him Mina, so he will offer her an apartment he owns and no longer used for a while, and she contains some furniture, so Mina moves to live in her, and continues her life with her daughter learning her and telling her, as ifHearing and talking is not a barrier at all, then the dialogue between them is about this good man who suddenly sent them to them, and he visited them from time to time, and the child interacted with him as if he was compensation for the father who lost him, but the permanence of the situation is from the impossible, so the husband's brother continues his attemptsTo sabotage the life of Mina, we will see the effects of this quickly.

Pain in conscience and chaos in the family ... the knot of guilt

A sharp dispute arises between this good man and his young son, the musician and the oud player, so it is decided to abandon the house, protesting the behavior of his father, and through the revolution of the son we realize that this man is Reda (actor Ali Reda Sanifar), and he is the same as the judge who issued the death sentence against Mina's husbandby mistake.

The son’s revolution is due to the father instead of pleading with a woman with pardon and his forgiveness from issuing a wrong judgment;It resorted to this method, not sincere, or the faithful, but satisfaction is already unable to confront and recognize it.

He is now living in a deadly sin, trying to atone for his guilt, as he decided to submit his resignation, as he is no longer able to practice his work for fear of causing the killing of another innocent person, and he is at the same time unable to confront Mina in truth, while the son insists on the necessityTell her of the truth, so it is abandoned the house.

القاضي رضا وشعور الذنب الذي يلاحقه بعد إعدامه لشخص بريء

On the other hand, news leakes about the meetings of this judge Reda with Mina, the victim's wife, which exposes him to legal accountability and punishment. The law does not recognize what he did and considers it a crime, then the melodrama is completed with the news of the death of the son and the shock of his father, as if he was daring from the cup itself.

Here, after a little time with the efforts of the husband's tireless brother, the matter will not remain hidden from Mina, after joy and happiness returned to her life and her daughter and they are in the company of this judge, where we see them laughing, Mina begins to put touches of makeup that gives a luster to her face, and suddenlyThe pleasure comes, and tells her of the painful truth.

A large cup of milk .. fatal foam on the food table

Here, before the conclusion we see two scenes, one of which is real, and the second is likely that he had come to the imagination of Mina or the imagination of Judge Reda himself, so which of them may imagine him?

A evening - after that disclosure - the judge sits on the food table, Mina Kuba offers him a large milk, so he looks at it with dread, fear and hesitation, then extends his hand and drinks it, nothing happens at the beginning, then the cramps appear and the foams begin to get out of his mouth, and die.

بوستر فيلم "أنشودة البقرة البيضاء"، حيث توجد البقرة البيضاء في ساحة كبيرة للسجن

At first glance as viewers, we are watching his death with the eyes of Mina, as if revenge, but it is also possible that this is the perception of satisfaction and his imagination, or his wish so that he rests from the torment of conscience.This confirms the next shot, as the director moves in the same previous case, but we see the heroine Mina at the door carrying her bag, turning behind her to take a final look at him.

Displacement in the street and watered in the soul .. an open end

We see Reza still sitting in his place, alive, not hurt by my body, but regret and guilt indicate that he will inevitably eliminate him, then the film is concluded with a snapshot of the mother and her daughter, who are sitting on a seat in the street, at the end that may appear open to the possibilities.

Nevertheless, work makers assure us that Mina faces limited options when it comes to the auspices of her daughter, and that after she became a widow she has had a lower power than ever, as she was expelled from her job, and from her apartment, and she is pressured to marry her annoying husband's brother.

It remains to point out that the film participated for the first time in the Berlin Film Festival, as shown by the 55th Carlovy International Festival within the "Horizons" section, which was directed by the duo Bahtash Sanaa, and Mariam Model, who also participated in writing the script, and played the role of the heroine Mina, and this is notTheir first joint work, they had previously collaborated in the movie "Risk of Acid Rain".