"He talked bad about me?" "Wanted to run away but I tripped him." "Nobody says this" "I say it now just like that?" "She attracted everybody." "We've seen nothing from" "She shouted all the time" "Something stupid" "It'll kill everybody" "Inducing hopelessness" "In society" "The secrecy" "What is it to you?" "Whoever saw her liked her." "Safety." "Excuse me!" "One more time" "If I don't do it" "How do I laugh?" "She was an active girl" "And she was noticeable too." "In this society, women" "Never mind" "Violation of human rights" "We are worried" "Father" "Society is like a child." "You must look after its breathing." "That is enough nagging." "You can't force people to laugh." "Society needs hope too." "There must be hope in the society to be shown, right?" "You can't put your hand into your pocket, take it out, and say, "This is hope!"" "Admit it isn't right to show the society naked." "It is like someone doesn't wear trousers... and walks in the streets butt naked" "What is wrong with it?" "It is very correct." "If civil protest cannot take form in a society, that society will get ill." "People will start nagging and express their dissatisfaction in an immoral way." "We must ready the atmosphere for the dynamism of the young generation." "Hope must be created." "There must be hope so I feel it." "If you don't have a positive feeling, you mustn't say it." "You mustn't dispirit society." "You must give it spirit, hope, passion, happiness, love." "I kiss the hand of this great lady." "The impact of proper social behaviour is much more than giving mottos." "If such behaviour is done by a woman, a woman whose right is usually trampled in the society, it will certainly have a deeper impact in the society." "We must be very careful." "A Chinese poet says," ""The children threw rocks at the frogs jokingly, but the frogs died really."" "Lantouri" "A Film by Reza Dormishian" "Lantouri means" "Ms Zarrabi Lawyer, Women's Rights Activist" "Lantouri means" "Leech, mosquito" "Mr Naderi Shop Owner" "Have you seen how a mosquito sucks blood?" "Like that jerk!" "We mustn't judge people superficially and label people." "Mr Zarrabi Sociologist and Poet" "Thousands of factors play a role in a person's character." "Everything must be analysed;" "childhood, adolescence." "It isn't fair to label people." "It is quite fair, actually!" "It isn't fair when women and children, the people's family, do not feel safe and secure." "What are you defending?" "Lantouri has its own meaning." "It means someone without conscience, without wisdom, cruel, a sponger." "It is lantouri." "They punched me in a way I was dealing with humans or animals!" "Sa'eed Self-employed" "A bunch of thugs attacked me." "I can't believe what you say!" "Hadi Pasha's Classmate" "I've rarely seen someone like that." "A real human." "His heart is like an ant's." "I don't know if you know or not Pasha and I grew up in this orphanage." "Whenever we feel down, we come here." "Maybe you don't believe that Pasha" "I don't know if he allows me to say these or not, but he is very charitable." "We have a Tree of Dreams here." "Children without parents or with bad parents write their dreams and attach them to the branches." "Compassionate people make those dreams come true." "RACING BIKE" "DAD COMES OUT OF PRISON" "RED WHISTLE" "LAPTOP" "FATHER" "MUM" "DOLL" "REZA WON'T BE HANGED" "A WRISTWATCH" "ALI DOESN'T CRY SO I CAN SLEEP" "TO GO TO THE SEA" "WARM PULLOVER FOR MY BROTHER" "BATMAN FILM" "REMOTE CONTROL CAR" "Any car?" "Mercedes, OK" "These children really mattered to Pasha" "Maybe Pasha somehow saw himself in them." "Every month Pasha and Baroon came here and fulfil one of the children's dreams." "When I say 1, 2, 3, say cheese!" " 1, 2, 3!" " Cheese!" "They are all stories." "They make them up to give him an air of humanity." "Wait!" "They want to say he is a Robin Hood!" "Who is Robin Hood?" "Why are they making up these stories?" "Find out the philosophy of making up such stories." "They want to make youths believe such things." "A thief is a thief, whether he steals for himself or for the needy." "Who has seen it except Hadi?" "Bring someone else who has seen it and I will believe it." "Me!" "Me!" "Baroon is a very kind girl." "I can't say enough about her." "She is different from others." "They say some things about her." "I really don't know." "It is her own life." "She knows best." "Hit her if she hit you, got it?" "1, 2, 3!" "Pasha is still a kid." "That's why he liked them." "Paint this part completely." "You paint this part." "You paint the leg." "Start when I tell you." "I didn't run away." "I married and came to Tehran." "I was 16." "He was 50, a junkie, and earned money with me." "I sued him and got divorced." "I worked till I met Pasha." "He cared about everybody except himself." "We started extorting together." "What matters now is that Pasha's life is divided into two parts;" "before and after Maryam." "I met Maryam many years ago." "Elham Social Worker" "We met in the classroom, before I became a social worker." "Maryam was a photographer, journalist, very idealist, and very persistent!" "She thought she could talk to the people easily, influence them, and convince them." "What are you looking for?" "Aren't you tired?" "She was very young when she lost her mother in an accident." "Her mother sacrificed her life in the accident to save Maryam's life." "Their relatives were all abroad." "She'd grown up alone, on her own feet." "Maybe it was the reason her world was different from normal people." "She wasn't the type to finish with her subjects after an article or a photo on them was published." "Her job started when her article was published." "She got involved with them." "She lived with them." "She became a part of them." "Her life was her job." "She was an extremist." "She would launch the campaign No to Violence," "World without War," "Forgiveness." "I kill just like that?" "Why do you say that?" "Someone who's been oppressed has lost hermental and emotional balance" "How do you give such a person the right to decide who must die or live?" "He's killed my husband." "When I ask the victim's mother how she feels 2 years after the execution, she says she has not found calmness." "So, if the murder was the first step in destroying the family, the second step was the hanging." "We must be able to talk to each other." "We must be able to like those who aren't like us." "You want to deprive someone of the right to live, only because he has done a crime?" "The murder and execution statistics have never been related." "When she started reports about juvenile delinquents, she could not leave it any more." "She was always in Juvenile Correction Centre." "I think if was mostly because my father didn't have a job" "You did the right thing." "Crack's terrible." "You kept telling the judge i smoked crack" "Then she would organise exhibitions to gather money for those who'd been sentenced to death to pay the blood money." "You feel down even when you think about hanging." "Now imagine someone who socialises all day long with minor children who have committed murder." "She had quit collecting money for the blood money, and went to the families of the victims to convince them to take back their complaint" "I hope the same happens to her child, so she knows what we go through." "Come out!" "We expected the law to apply justice here otherwise I have5 brothers who could handle it" "They lied to me she was alive in the ICU, but she had die." "Go out!" "Get lost!" "Aren't you ashamed of defending a murderer?" "I'm sorry." "I didn't mean to hurt you." " I just wanted to talk to you." " I don't want you to talk!" "I won't forgive him!" "Don't you get it?" "He's killed my daughter." "My only daughter!" "He is sick." "Why I should see my only daughter in the shroud, instead of the wedding gown?" " How old was my daughter?" " Sohrab is mentally ill." "Can you return your daughter back to life by killing Sohrab?" "Why do you keep saying 'killing'?" "As if I have killed someone!" "He has killed someone and must be punished." "Get out!" "I won't go anywhere until you consent." "I won't consent." "How are you related to him?" "We are not related." "He has nobody to come to you." "What is it to me he doesn't have anybody?" "Did he think who I have?" "The one who has given you the right to request hanging has given you the right to forgive too." "I forgive him so he goes to the street and kills someone else?" "I won't forgive him." "Get out!" "Go out and write whatever you like." "Write we are killers, our hearts are made of stone, and we won't forgive!" "Get lost!" "I didn't want to kill her." "One day I went to their house." "I loved her." "Why I should hurt her?" "I waited so long till her mother left and she was alone." "Maryam always tried to convince people to take back their complaint." "It had even made trouble for her in the newspaper she worked." "The concert is cancelled again?" "Sara, have you read this?" "OK, thank you." "I'll be waiting for your call." "She is insulting me." "Why do you get angry?" "He is the manager." "Go talk to him." "She was very active." "Very persistent in her job." "That's why everybody noticed her." "Sara Journalist" "If I want to talk, I must say many things." "These guys in Photography Section, they talked behind her back." "Sit down, please." " You wrote this?" " Yes." " Thank God you admit you did." " Yes, I do." " SAVING A HUMAN?" " You think it is a bad headline?" "Why should the foreigners read about lex talionis?" "Not to mention in this situation when" "What do you want to prove with your report?" "Who do you want to fawn with?" "Or maybe you want to make a name for yourself?" "Well said!" "The foreigners who talk about human rights now, have forgotten their own history." "How much did you violate the human rights?" "And a bunch of embassy-dweller opportunists want to go abroad and put on an opposition face." "If you want to go abroad, do it with dignity." "Why do you disgrace your own country?" "A nasty guy rapes some people." "What should be done to him?" "Sit back and watch him?" "Obviously he must be punished." "Why such an issue must be highlighted?" "Have you read my article?" "What?" "You mean you didn't write it?" "I said I wrote it." "So you admit you wrote it." "Then you are offended when they call you a spy?" "How are they related?" "You call a spy whoever writes something outside Iran?" "Did I say that?" "Is that really my viewpoint?" "I am a cultural man, a journalist." "I am one of you." "I meant we shouldn't allow such a view to form unwillingly." "Do you want our newspaper to be banned because of you, and some people lose their income?" "Is that proper?" "Write a commitment letter so I can justify it." "From now on, you won't work with any media except us, either domestic or foreign." "She talked behind my back?" "Mr Hamidi Newspaper Manager" "We didn't see anything bad from her." "She was a little distracted though." "Everything I told her was for her own good." "The law is always the main point for us." "We always abide by the law." "And what she did outside the newspaper is her own responsibility." "She was stubborn." "Yes, stubborn." "I never thought she would befriend such a boy" "She didn't appreciate herself." "I'd never seen her with a boy." "Maybe it isn't right to say that but she was a bit off in this regard." "She wasn't interested in such things." "Not to mention with Pasha, much younger than her." "Their relation was a bit strange." "But if you aren't strange nowadays, it isn't normal." "I wasn't going to be this." "I studied Maths in Roodehen University." "Our teacher was teaching rubbish and I left the class." "He had talked behind my back." "So, I dragged him out and punched him in the eye." "It is false." "Mr Ardalan Police Officer" "We investigated." "Neither was he a student at that time nor a fight has been reported." "I thought I didn't belong to university any more." "I decided to work in a factory." "But it didn't happen." "There were sanctions and the factory was closed down." "I became friends with Pasha when he'd come with Baroon to exchange $30,000." "Then he wanted to nick me." "Didn't know I was from deep downtown." "I said the end." " 3,700." " 800." " 700." " 800." " 700." " 800." " It was 700 in the morning." " It is afternoon now!" " I'll come tomorrow morning." " What if it'll be 4,000?" "3,700?" "Say 800." "Don't be mean." "We are buying 30,000." "Have character!" "Pull over." "So I became one of them." "They say people are more successful when they work as a team." "We became a team." "Baroon, Pasha, and me." "There was someone else too;" "Lanky Bahram." "He was a petty thief." "As he was taller than everybody,Pasha said he was good for climbing the walls" "I loafed in the streets since childhood." "Didn't have proper parents to tell me what to do and what not to do." "Idling away in the streets." "Robbed anyone I liked in the street." "Depended on my luck what to get." "Sometimes money and debit cards, sometimes nothing." "Everything changed when I joined the guys." "Lantouri Gang was formed that way." "Lantouri?" "Newspapers gave us the title." "We weren't after such things." "I'd never been a member of a band, gang, or a political party, God forbid!" "Lantouri wasn't a gang." "It was a team." "Maybe it wasn't even a team." "We were four guys without any boss or member." "We were just together." "That is false." "He was the member of the gang." "There is proof too." "He was in fact an important member." "Carrying, possession, and making of cold weapons is not illegal, but if you use them for extortion, stalking, threatening, or displaying power, it is a crime and you will be prosecuted." "The weapon gives him power." "Nobody carries a dagger to peel fruits with it!" "The one with a dagger in the street is not the only thug in the street." "The real thug is the one who has 10 ID cards and passports, flies on a private plain, gets off anywhere in the world he wishes." "He is afraid of blood but he sucks the blood of millions of people every day." "He gives weapon instead of pen to ten-year-old African, Afghan, Iraqi kids." "He is the thug." "These are just chickens." "They are hungry guys who have gone nuts." "Whatever happens, they arrest these quickly, but they can't arrest those." "They will run away even if they surround them." "Thug is the one who wears a tie, looks at the people through intellectual round glasses" "Open your tie, become like people, and then talk bookish!" "Other people pilfer this country's money, but you get upset for it, and I get thrashed for it!" "OK, you are the good one!" "We quit petty theft little by little and went to rich kids;" "Tehran's loaded girls and boys." "We didn't work in a calculated way with a list and say, let's go after him or her because their father was this or that." "Their money mattered to us." "So many people are hungry." "How can he afford a two-billion car?" "We really didn't know who from we were stealing." "I don't know Mr R." "Nor Mr K." "We didn't know anything." "We found out later they were economically corrupt, embezzlers, and other things." "We weren't after such things." "We were after their money." "And it was important to us that they all have a weakness for women, thank God!" "Once a man a Mr A called us and said, "You stole the car of Mr R's son?"" "We were surprised how he'd got our telephone number." "He said, "The Porsche you stole, smash it on the motorway crash barrier."" "We didn't ask anything else and smashed it on the crash barrier." "It is clear it is the product of his imagination." "Whoever was caught in our net could not escape easily, because we got money from them as much as we could." "Every case was different." "We blackmailed someone for two years for his reputation." "He paid the money every month." "He didn't object the least." "Here." "Brill!" "Go to him in the morning." "They are extortioners." "What does it mean?" "This!" "Mr Ahmadi" "They must be shown so the youths understand what is waiting for them when they do illegal work." "They mustn't be shown." "It will become ordinary." "No, they must be shown." "But the public opinion must not be fooled when they play possum." "I respect artists but" "It has a bad effect." "We must find the roots." "Don't do anything his Likes go up." "A doctor has 200 followers, but a criminal must have 200,000?" "What can I do except stealing?" "Have you ever tried that you ask what to do now?" "Does my father do inside trading or possesses plots?" "My father is a big fish?" "Who am I?" "How can I afford my mother's hospital expenses?" "He is playing possum." "See us too." "It is only because some want everything to be theirs and only they use them." "And the rest shouldn't have calm or income." "Don't I like to live like well-off guys?" "Dress like them,talk like them, and behave like them?" "The sound of their cars when they spin gets on my nerve" "I know the meaning of every horn they blow." "You have surely seen it." "I don't want to be insulting but I have been among them." "I know what bastards they are!" "I know what they do to the country's money." "You have a good car but I don't." "It is inequality." "You have good clothes but I don't." "You have a good house but I don't." "So I scratch your car,write insults on the wall of your house, damage it, and tear your clothes." "Because a sick mind considers it inequality." "You tell me what to do and I will do it." "They have never looked for work." "They are only after someone to blame" "They want to blame others for their laziness." "What is everybody doing?" "How are they earning so much?" "What is it to you?" "Are you responsible to enforce the law?" "Whoever did something illegal, we must answer him by something illegal?" "We must refer to the law." "I have repented." "Show me a way." "Who sees us?" "I get angry when I see they can buy anything they want." "When did I like to be wearing these clothes?" "To sit in front of you like this?" "When we deprive people of sunlight, when we get happiness, smile, light, colour, park, bench, street, and the sea from people, nothing will remain for them." "People are dead." "They can't distinguish any more." "Not everybody can control themselves." "Ten million can, ten can't." "We must find out what we have done that they are in this situation." "When there is no discrimination in the society and all people work hard equally, nobody runs away from work and does not fear hardship." "By God stealing is hard too." "It isn't easy at all." "He is playing possum." "Seeing people who become very rich overnight in the society can cause crimes." "One takes 100 billion, another 200 billion, another 500 billion." "I ask you." "How much is the budget for Ministry of Health?" "It wasn't about that." "Pasha said they had taken the kids' right." "He was right." "How can they make so much money without trampling on others' right?" "Show me a right way to earn so much money." "Sure!" "These are all false talks." "I think you can take all of it out of your film." "What false talks?" "They are reality." " Only lies." " Absolute truth." "Take it from me." "Take out this part completely." "You're not looking for trouble, surely?" "Let me delete it." "Which button is it?" "Lantouri has gone nuts." "He thinks people have picked his pocket and he must pick others' pocket." "It gives me shivers to take from others." "I hate it." "I've stolen many times but never picked someone's pocket" "Throw everything out of your pocket!" "OK, I will." "The front pocket." "Give your mobile." "Back pocket too!" "Don't turn around!" "The Lantouri gather around and become DAESH." "They become powerful and big and become DAESH." "Each of us has a Hitler and Mandela inside us." "It depends on the society to take out which one." "To take out Radovan Karadžić, Slobodan Milošević," "Bin Laden, Mullah Omar, Saddam, and Gaddafi, or great people such as Gandhi, Mandela" "True extortion causes violence in the society, thank God it has been eradicated in our society." "I'm not saying we don't have it." "We do, but not as much as you are exaggerating." "I haven't ever seen Pasha beating someone." "Of course it is a lie." "It is all for scaring." "He did beat others, but used the knife only once." "Give the bag!" "Give it or I'll hit you!" "Run!" "Pasha!" "Pasha!" "Why are you standing?" "Come." "He was sitting and crying like a child." "Lantouri was going its way right till that day." "You do?" "I like you more." "How old are you, chick, that they give you the car?" "How old you like me to be?" "Think you're big?" "I'll show you who's big!" "Where are you going?" "Move and I'll slit your throat!" "Lower the knife." "They might see it." "Mobile!" "Wallet!" "Hurry!" " Password?" " 5321." "Show your watch." "Am I kidding?" "Take it off." "Hurry!" "What is your jacket's brand?" " Fake?" " Original." "It's fake." "By God it's original." "It's fake!" "Take it off." "His trousers are mine." "How much do you pay we let you go?" "How much do you want?" " 22 OK?" " Yes." "Not 22." "Good." "I don't have that much now." " What about your daddy?" " He isn't in Iran." " Mummy?" " She isn't either." "Borrow." "Give back my mobile to call." " No tricks!" " No tricks." "What are you doing, animal?" "He saw her again after a year." "Pasha saw Maryam first in Siyavash incident." "We called him 'cousin'." "He'd killed someone." "And Maryam wanted to get consent for him." "Pasha came to like Maryam but couldn't tell her." "It wasn't the right time." "Until Pasha saw Maryam again that day" "He went after her to her house." "You're thinking about her?" "She thinks about you?" "She is your thought?" "Tell her." "I didn't say and she has a baby now." "What is it to me?" "Suit yourself." "I want you to do me a favour, but Baroon mustn't find out." "I'll never forget that pull." "We were cheated." "Pasha didn't give our share." "He gave me my share." "I was surprised very much when he called to make an appointment." "Well?" "He was a funny boy." "He wanted to know about Maryam and how to tell her he loved her, and what kind of a girl she was." "I asked him What do you want from me?" "He only stared at me." "I asked him." "Where did you get my number?" "He said he'd got it from a common friend." "I didn't find out who." "What should I've told him?" "How did you call me?" "Call Maryam in the same way." "It was interesting." "What do you like about her?" "Suppose I am Maryam." "What do you want to tell her?" "He talked about Maryam non-stop." "I didn't realise how he pumped me for information." "Let me tell you a secret." "Maryam's life is her work." "Her love is her work." "If you want Maryam to like you, you must become a part of her work." "Get involved in her work." "Not everything about her, but I told him some things." "What is it?" "I'm going to her." "And he followed Maryam." "Pasha started stalking her." "He did everything to reach Maryam." "It came out?" "No." "Don't touch your eye with our dirty hand." "Something will get into your eye." "Baroon, come here a moment." "Shall I call someone to come and take her out of your mind?" "She thought I wanted to take away the boy from her" "Not to mention I told the boy what to do, what not to do." "They've given Sohrab death penalty." " Nothing can be done now?" " Not any more." "They will send him to Evin in two days for execution." "You can't do anything?" " Maryam, who is this boy?" " Which boy?" " Who?" " That car." "Nobody." "Was it a taxi?" "How lucky!" " You do know me." " No, not any more." "Nothing can be done for Sohrab?" "Can't someone else go to his family?" "You talked to them." "They said they didn't want to see anybody." "They might give consent if someone else goes to them" "No way." " Who was the boy?" " Nobody." "I know." "We'll do anything we can." "Have you got a cigarette?" "By God she was breathing." "I loved her." "Why should I hurt her?" "She didn't let me." "I said, "I love you."" "She said, "Shut up!"" "I put my hand on her mouth." "I was afraid." "There was blood everywhere." "She'd fallen down the stairs but she was breathing." " We will talk tomorrow." " All right." "The secrecy is not nice." "Why do you lie?" "Some like to play secrecy." "I don't really understand why." "That is how they are." "Pasha brought her to the meth kitchen to me too" "Shutup" "Shutup" "She was a nice girl." "Everybody knows me, Earthworm." "No need to hide it from me." "I can show you the pictures before publication." "The girl kept asking us questions." "As if she hadn't seen cooking." "Pasha asked me to let her take a few photos." "I said OK, but no face in the photos." "Only hands and the kitchen." "I just don't know I'm here because of the photos or the kitchen." "Pasha had fallen for her." "Couldn't do anything about it." "Love is love." "He loved her madly." "Maryam had become all his life." "Pasha was justified to fall for Maryam." "You couldn't help falling in love with Maryam" "Any man would be in love with Maryam." "No, Maryam didn't really do anything." "She didn't dress gaudy like some girls." "But she attracted everybody." "She had sort of insanity, a kind of charisma, that attracted everybody." "Whoever saw her would come to like her." "I don't believe it." "Unless the girl does something, the boy will not follow her." "She has surely done something that the boy went after her." "He wouldn't for no reason." "It is not clear the relation was a complete two-sided love." "Perhaps it was a one-sided love, and the unconventional behaviour of one hurt the other." "He was too much head over heels to let her go." "He was going full throttle." "What should I say?" "He loved her very much." "Everything was going on well until Maryam" "Maryam shouldn't have played with Pasha" "She shouldn't have done it to him." "Cheating is cheating." "Maryam shouldn't have cheated on Pasha" "Neither Pasha nor I found it out." "Baroon caught her red-handed." "Accidently." "It wasn't accidently." "Pasha didn't want me to find out, but how is that possible?" "I went to see who he was." "Not once." "I saw them together a few times." "Madam, I told you he doesn't have time now." "And I said it is very important." "Tell me what it is about." "Fax these." " Hello." " Hello." "The lady insists on seeing you." "Yes, I am at your disposal." "I need the money from this job." "Everybody needs the money from this job." "My situation is different." "Whoever comes here has a different situation." "Can I explain my situation privately?" " You are Miss?" " Maryam." " Maryam?" " Sabet." "Wait here." "I'll be with you." " Where is Pasha?" " Asleep." " It isn't the time to be asleep!" " He was tired, so he turned in." " When did he come home?" " Nearly 3 or 4 in the morning." " Where had he been?" " How do I know?" "How are you?" "See this." "What does he have?" "Where did you find him?" "Who is he?" "Maryam's fiancé." "Who is Maryam?" ""Who is Maryam?" You don't know?" "Where did he find her?" " Who told you to go to him?" " I wanted to." " You shouldn't have!" " But I wanted to." "I'll delete these photos and you will shut up." "You mustn't do it." "What is it to you?" "Even if you take 100 photos for Pasha, he won't leave her." "She is engaged." "How do you know she is Maryam's fiancé?" "How do I know?" "Who is she?" "She is right." "Where are you taking them?" "Don't!" "Pasha!" "Pasha wouldn't let go." "He wanted to take revenge on both the boy and Maryam." "Roll down the window." "Yes?" "You hit and run?" "You ran over the kid." "Who did that?" "You almost killed him." " Did we hit anybody?" " You did." "Here it is." "We weren't even moving in that lane." "What are you doing?" "I didn't know I was dealing with a gang." "How much do you want?" "Shut up!" "Filth bag!" "Tell him who my father is!" "Don't 'my father' me!" "Cos my father is this knife!" "Either forget Maryam or my knife will help you forget." "You can have Maryam." "My name is not Maryam." "He means your fiancée." "What will your father say when he sees this?" "What will he say?" "What would you do in my place?" "I'm sorry." "Didn't hear you." "I'm sorry like shit!" " Like shit?" " Like shit!" " Like what?" " Like shit!" "Good!" "What was it?" "Shit!" "I went to see who he was." "Shit!" "Pasha took it out on Sa'eed." "But his relation with Maryam was ruined." "I deleted the photos." "He didn't have anything to show to Maryam." " Maryam!" " I don't want to see you." "Wait." "Let me explain." "Explain what?" "Any idea what you did to him, psycho?" "What I did or you did?" "You became his girlfriend or I did?" "Their relation didn't get like before again." "Row after row." "He followed Maryam in the street everywhere." "He quarrelled with everybody." "He's become tetchy." "Until he disappeared suddenly." "We were really worried for him." "Everybody said something." "Someone said he'd seen him sleeping in the street." "Someone said he'd seen him in the terminal." "One day he came here." "I think it was at that time." "He wasn't well at all." "He was sort of confused, distracted." "He cried all the time." "As if he had taken refuge here." "MARYAM" "He'd disappeared for a week when we found out what had happened." "I was sitting right here." "Baba'ee University Student" "The girl and boy were sitting over there under the tree, when the girl screamed suddenly." "She screamed non-stop." "She started to run," "I was really shocked." "I didn't know what to do." "At first I didn't know what had happened." "I found out later." "I was at the park washing my car when I heard the scream." "Mr Nazari Driver" "I'm burning!" "I'm burning!" "You can't imagine what I went through..." "In our patriarchal society, the harms to the women are definitely much deeper." "They are even more irreversible." "They are insulted more, they are more exposed to danger, and the possibility of legal action is much less for them." "Naturally, the society shows reaction." "The hurt burns to utter something burning." "If you want to know how we are, listen to what we say." "NO TO VIOLENCE" "In such campaigns, you must put away your feelings, act with logic and wisdom, and in the framework of the law." "Most acid attacks target women" "Women are still considered inferior to men." "A society without objection is a dead society." "I can't say it with certainty, but during the time the suspect was detained in this police station, he cried so much that it was clear he wasn't mentally stable" "I ran after him and he ran to the end of the park." "Mr Asadi Maize Seller" "I took a shortcut and faced him on the other side." "He was shocked." "He wanted to run away and I tripped him." "He would've escaped if I hadn't." "We turned him in to the police." "They are all lies." "The suspect turned himself in voluntarily." "Not that day." "Ten days after the incident." "He looked like vagrants and we had no problem in arresting him." "Was it my fault or yours?" "Did I want to do this?" "You asked me to do it." "You wanted it." "Did I really want to do it?" "Not you, she wanted it." "Yes, she made me do it." " I'm not feeling well." " Shut up!" "I should've sit back and let him take her away from me?" "Shut up!" " I didn't want to do it." " Shut up!" " She made me do it." " Shut up!" "I shouldn't have fallen in love with her." "I didn't make a mistake." "You did." "Everything was fine before I fell in love." "It is your own fault." "Everything is my fault." "I am to blame." "You thought you could tame her?" "I thought I could tame her." "There are so many girls in town." "You mean she isn't mine?" " Does she love you?" " Of course she does." " How do you know?" " She told me she loved me." "If she doesn't, why must she lie to me?" "What love?" "What relationship?" "They are imaginations of a psycho with the psychos around him." "He's repeated that to himself so much he has believed it is love, a relationship." "I told him no on the first day." "Sorry I dragged you here." "I could send it to you." "But I wanted to see who had written these in the bag." "You read them?" "I was looking for your number and saw them accidentally." "I started reading and I don't know what happened I read them till the end." "I liked them very much." "What did you like about them?" "The frankness." "I understand much better the people you have written about, than the people here." "Then why you made an appointment here?" "We'll make an appointment downtown next time." "Thank you for the bag." "I'll be off." "I'll pay at the door." "No, I'll pay because I was nosey." "As you wish." "Goodbye." "She didn't open up." "And I liked that attitude of hers." "How did you find here's number?" "I saw your number suddenly in your writings." "Don't call again." "I don't mean harm." "Just called to ask how you are doing." "You gave my bag." "No need to call again." "Sorry it got disconnected." "I paid the other time and it got on my nerve." "Let's go somewhere, you pay, and I have fun." "I love the way she laughs!" "Hello?" "Did I insult you that you hang up on me?" "Do you hear me?" "Hello?" "Wild girl!" "Don't call again!" "I won't hear it." "When do we meet?" "DON'T CALL!" "Someone answers the phone." "It is a stalker." "Maryam!" "Hello." "What?" "You told me not to call and I came!" "Wait!" "Please don't go." "I want to talk to you." "For God's sake!" "It is a matter of life and death!" " Get in and I'll tell you." " Say it here." " Can't be here." " Get in." "Say it here." "Get in." "If you don't, I'll blow the horn." "I will!" "Thank you." "Fasten your seat belt." "Your perfume is nice." "I love you." "Is that what you wanted to say?" "I want you." "Do you know the meaning of what you are saying?" "I do." "I feel you." "I see you wherever I go." "You are with me." "Enough!" "Pull over." "I want to get out." "I didn't say anything bad." "Just my feeling, shouldn't I?" "No, don't say it." "OK, I won't." "I'm sorry." "No need to fight!" "You took back your word very quickly, coward." "The way you treat me scares me." "I don't know what to do." " Your first time?" " What?" "Your first time?" "I fall in love?" " You were not to say it." " Sorry!" " I won't say it again." " Little boy!" "I was a boy." "I grew up and became a man." "I grew beard too." "Most probably you dye your own beard." "You like the colour?" "Stop the car." "Remember Siyavash?" "Which Siyavash?" "The one you tried to save from execution." "He was hanged." "He was my cousin." "Then why I never saw you there?" "We are not noticeable!" "I saw you and fell for you." " Thank you for giving me a lift." " Welcome." "Don't come late." "I don't like waiting." " Don't talk to me like that." " Sure!" "Don't come late." "The way she walks, her manners" "her look whatever she did, drew me to her." "I didn't want it, she did." "Why are you standing here?" "I asked why you are standing here." "To give you a lift." "What do you want from me?" "You are looking for crooks?" "I can show you the worse crims." "Worse crims?" "Real criminals." "They are dwarfs." "I'll take you to giants." "Underworld." "Want me to take you to Earthworm?" "Earthworm!" "I pitied him." "A stupid pity." "My mistake started there." "Why she came with me if she didn't like me?" "She wanted to tease me?" "She wouldn't have if she didn't want to tease you." "I'd just gone to take a few photos." "That's all." "I wouldn't have gone if I had a little brain." " It's cool." " Yes." " Worse crims?" " Yes." " You are worsest!" " Shut up!" "Why she laughed if she didn't like me?" "Why she laughed?" "She laughed." "She laughed." "She laughed!" "She laughed." "I made a mistake." "It wasn't pity." "I was so stupid I thought people could be changed." "When he did whatever I said, I wanted to do something to correct him, to teach him to behave." "That is all rubbish!" "There are so many men among my friends,in my workplace." "Men or women make no difference to me." "We didn't even take each other's hand." "I was only helping him to forget me slowly." "And Sa'eed showed up again in the middle of all my problems." "The relationship between Sa'eed and me was so irrelevant that it finished before it even started." "A relation that we thought could have a future." "In less than two months, we didn't have anything to tell each other." "We pretended we talked." "But when I found out who his father was," "I couldn't stand him any more." "I finished with him but Sa'eed wouldn't let go." "He thought he could convince me by talking." "He said. he was different from his father." "But the more I looked at him, the more I saw their similarities." "I was fed up with his persistence." "He wouldn't understand." "He'd become like this boy," "You had to tell him everything" "I was exasperated." "After two months, he asked to see me." "He wanted to tell me he would leave his father because of me." "Because he is a thief, a filth bag, and an inside trader bastard!" "If his father didn't have so many people's money, that monkey would really love her?" "Not to mention my money, your money, people's money." "I'm sure that boy had changed her mind." "Otherwise, Maryam loved me." "At least wait when you hit!" "Who is this goof you've become friends with?" "You don't love him?" "Of course you don't." "He loves you?" "Of course he does." "He isn't a man if he doesn't." "Don't be offended, I'm not saying anything bad." "I say you must be careful nobody will fall in love with you." "It is funny." "So many mottos, no to violence." "I got angry and slapped her." "I hate myself." "He won't let go." " Do I stop?" " No, drive." "She didn't answer me or see me." "I'd become desperate." "A vagrant!" "I got distant from him." "I was afraid of him." "I didn't see him for some time." "I was almost forgetting him." "My mind was busy with the family of a victim." "I was convincing them not to request execution." "It'd become my dream to convince someone to forgive." "It is my fault." "I don't know why I insisted so much that day." "Maybe if I hadn't insisted, this wouldn't have happened." "Maryam, go see him." "Poor boy is in love." "He wants to talk to you." "He promised if he saw you, everything would be over." "You are his friend or mine?" "I don't know why you react so strangely." "See him and get it done with." "Don't you want everything to be over?" "She was right." "I didn't see him from that day on!" "I told myself to kill my wisdom." "Kill it!" "Kill it!"" "I wish I hadn't gone that day." "I wish" "I'd died." "Kill me." "Finish it." "What is this stupid game?" "Game?" "You played with me." "Would I come here if I wanted to play with you?" "You aren't feeling well." "You don't understand." "I couldn't do it even if I liked you." "Even if?" "Suppose I do like you." "Do you?" "I can't!" " Shall I pour for you?" " No!" "Why?" "I'd love to sit before you, stare at you, and get drowned in you." "To your gaze which is mine." "To your eyes which are both beautiful." " To your" " That's enough!" "Why are you hurting yourself and me so much?" " Will you become mine?" " I belong to nobody." "Not even myself." "Even better!" "Be mine then." "See?" "You don't understand." "That is what makes me sick about you." "You don't understand." "OK!" "So," "we'll say goodbye." "You want to drink that too?" "It is goodbye, right?" "You want to have us arrested?" "I'll ask for the last time." " Will you be mine?" " You are insane!" "Either mine or nobody's!" "I'm burning!" "I'm burning!" "Her skin came off layer by layer." "The smell of her wound is still in my mind." "Yes." "I provided the acid for him." "If I hadn't, someone else would." "But he wasn't going to splash it." "He said he only wanted to scare her." "He said he wanted to show Maryam the depth of his love." "He burned her heart." "He destroyed me too." "I'm ready to give my life so her face returns." "Seeing, reading, and writing were all my life." "I am dead." "I am buried alive now." "Everything ended so easily?" "Worse than all Sa'eed!" "Despite all his claim that he loved Maryam so much, he didn't visit Maryam even once." "What has it got to do with me?" "I don't understand." "How can you say that?" "She didn't like to see me." "And I don't want to see her." "Especially now after this incident when nobody knows what it is about." "In this situation, you are worried about your position?" "I don't know Maryam." "I've seen her only twice all my life, because of the loan she had got from the company." "She invited us one or two times to get time to return the loan later." "I didn't accept because I didn't know her, and I said I wasn't a shark." "I told the guys to give her time according to the regulations, so there wouldn't be any trouble later." "Anything else they say is nonsense." "Maybe they wanted to frame my father." "What?" "My father has not embezzled a few hundred billion." "Even if he had, what is it to you?" "He surely had the guts to do it." "I don't want you to censor these." "All people who boast, if they were in my father's shoes, they'd have taken enough already and left." "Some made accusations but couldn't prove them." "And some sued but couldn't do anything." "Thank God both my father's and my accounts are clear." "We are both soldiers of this country." "And everybody knows I have been engaged for two years." "Excuse me?" "What if the two of them were in it together?" "There must be something that he splashed acid on her." "My soul and body burnt together." "I am burning inside but I am alive." "I breathe." "I die but I am alive." "I burn again 100 times a day, but I am alive again." "I am in hell." "In a world like a slide where you are falling all the time." "It is night, it is day, but is it is still dark." "You sleep and get up, but it is still dark." "Why nobody wakes me up from this nightmare?" "Put yourself in her shoes for a moment." "Why she shouldn't take?" "Say revenge." "Call it whatever you want." "I won't forgive him." "The former Maryam is dead." "I don't understand what she used to say any more." "I want to do something nobody dares to splash acid again." "I totally agree." "I agree." "I am not to decide." "Maryam must say lex talionis should be done or not." "I'm not against punishing Pasha." "But I don't want another wounded and another ugliness added to the world." "Why do you think everybody thinks like you?" "Why do you want to egg on the society?" "JUSTICE FOR MARYAM" "I don't want to torture him." "I just don't want to let anybody else do it." "I want him to realise the crime he has done is worse than murder." "I wanted to change him." "If it didn't happen that way, this way." "WHERE IS MY FACE?" "It's become so complicated that the main issue, Maryam, has been lost in the process." "Lex talionis." "The court verdict for the complaint of Ms Maryam Farnami is lex talionis." "Mr Enayat Judge" "I beg the authorities not to be contented with an organ for an organ punishment in this case, but to give him the maximum sentence so this filth will be wiped." "They must be killed." "No, who says lex talionis is an inhumane and brutal act?" "That is not so." "Les talionis is a reaction." "As the Quran puts it, it ensures life in society." "Lex talionis has been ordered to maintain people's security in the society against the criminals." "There are punishment and retaliation in all educational systems in the world." "In case of Ms Maryam Farnami, she could request blood money, but she didn't and she insists on lex talionis." "It is her right and the verdict will be carried out." "Anybody can splash acid in the face of a girl in the name of love, and then nobody will tell him anything?" "Can you imagine what has happened to her?" "Surgery after surgery." "Going from this to that doctor." "The pains apart, just close your eyes and imagine you won't be able to open them again." "I miss seeing a simple frame, a doorframe an empty glass." "All human rights campaigns agree Maryam must get her right." "Nobody must deprive another human of the right to live." "I know all that." "They are no use." "Even if they didn't let it, I would go to him." "I really don't know." "Everybody is shocked." "I hope the society will not think Pasha became a criminal because he grew up in an orphanage." "That is not so." "Many good and useful people grew up in the same orphanage;" "people who didn't even see their families;" "no father, no mother." "And many criminals came from big houses and important families." "This lex talionis will be done by surgery, due to the complications and difficulties involved." "According to the law, the length and width of the cut must be equal in lex talionis for wounds." "The verdict has been sent to Verdict Administration Dept to be carried out under the supervision of the Forensics Office." "It is very hard to find someone to do it, because the medical society has made an oath to cure pain not inflict pain." "If I don't do it, someone else will." "It is God's order." "It must be carried out." "It is really hard and not everybody can do it." "Observing equal cut is very important in the lex talionis of the organ." "If you make the slightest mistake, you must pay blood money." "It is a millimetre job and depends on different parameters such as the amount of the acid, acid's pH value, how the acid has been poured, the thickness of the culprit's skin, how the patient should be treated after splashing the acid." "The total burn on the face is 9%." "Two eyes, one nose, one mouth, two eyebrows, two cheeks, two ears." "According to the judge's decision, we do lex talionis on two eyes." "What are you afraid of?" "Let them blind you." "You think you are seeing now?" "I got blind the moment Maryam rejected me." "If they are going to blind you, who can be better than Maryam?" "I have no objection if Maryam wants to blind me." " You still love her?" " Of course I do." "I love her." "I'm ready to die for her." " With that face?" " The way she is." " Will you marry her?" " I'd love to." "If Maryam agrees, I'll marry her tomorrow." "Maryam was justified." "Pasha had blinded her." "We had to convince Maryam to withdraw her complaint." "But how?" "Maryam, I've come to ask you to be forgiving." "Go out!" " Maryam, forgive" " Someone takes her out!" "Maryam!" "I swear you to whatever you believe in, to whatever you worship!" "He made a big mistake." "He is sorry." "Forgive him!" "I'll do whatever you say." "Maryam!" "Forgive him." "Be merciful!" "He did wrong." " Have mercy on him." " Did he have mercy on me?" "Take my eyes, but not his." "Forgive him, for Quran's sake!" "I'll do whatever you say." "Forgive what?" "Forgive what?" "Whatever we did, she didn't want to see us." "She went for lex talionis after two months." " Where is he?" " They'll bring him now." "In the Name of God." "My girl!" "I know lex talionis is your right, but be forgiving." "In the verse God Almighty has recognised lex talionis as a right," "He has confirmed that waiving the right to lex talionis is a lofty deed and will be rewarded otherworldly." " Forgive him." " I won't." "I want him to be punished." "I know you are in a hard condition." "I know well all the things you said." "I want to do the lex talionis myself." "It is my right." "Where is he?" "Where is that jerk now?" "Where is he?" "Let go of my hand." "Don't you want to do lex talionis today?" "Let me do it." "Where has he gone?" "Is he here?" "I want to do myself." "I want to set him on fire." "I want him to burn!" "What do you mean, "Calm down"?" "Look at me!" "Let go of me!" "Let go!" "By God I still love you." "Calm down." "Open your eyes." "Open your eyes." "Calm down." "Open your eyes." "Calm down." "Water." "Can I have water?" "You'll burn more if you move." "I forgive him!" "FORGIVENESS IN PLACE OF REVENGE" "MARYAM, THANK YOU" "MARYAM, WE LOVE YOU" "Only a great woman is capable of such courage." "She gave us a big lesson with what she did." "The lesson of forgiveness, kindness, sacrifice, faith." "And nobody knew the name of the mournful pigeon that had flown away from the hearts was faith." "The greatest forgiver in the world is God Almighty." "In the name of God." "The Gracious, the Merciful." "The only thing left for me was forgiveness." "When I said I would forgive him, I thought about myself." "I didn't want to think about someone else." "Whether he gets blind or not makes no difference to me any more, but forgiving him or not does." "True she waived her right and forgave him, according to Islamic Penal Law, as the crime has disrupted law and order in society, and there is the fear of encouragement to the culprit or other persons, the defendant is sentenced to five years imprisonment," "the maximum sentence stated in the law." "The defendant's other charges will be dealt with in Criminal Court" "What are you thinking about?" "You." "Forgive me, but I still love her." "Isn't it a pity to waste time talking so much about that person?" "The foreigners will see this film and will say the people in our country are all like that." "No, we have doctors, engineers, good people." "There is an old well-digger." "He has been earning honest money for his family for 50 years from the bottom of the wells." "And his children are all good people." "Why you don't make films about them?" "I have a fruit shop." "I haven't raised the price of tomato for a few years." "You just want to sully." "The foreigners are not in love with you and me." "Only our miseries are attractive to them." "Pathology is different from besmirch." "I want to criticise you too." "You are angry with something." "In your previous film I'm not Angry!" ", you extend it to the whole society." "Why you don't see so much love, beauty, passion, and joy in the society?" "It is very unfair." "On the other side of the world, a youth takes a gun, goes to a school, and kills schoolchildren." "They don't hide the news, and bring the killer to the television, analyse him, and find the roots for his action." "And nobody says this is sullying." "They give education." "They try to prevent the repetition of the action by education." "Nobody erases the problem." "The earth is like a balloon." "It will burst wherever you prick." "Holocaust, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, the American twin towers, the chemical bombing of Halabja and Sardasht, they are all wounds inflicted on the earth." "The two or three-year-old kid who was playing in Sardasht or Halabja has not been able to breathe normally for decades." "I announce here we are worried." "Give us the right to be worried because of the publication of such social issues in such a manner." "Be whatever you want." "Just be humans." "See humans." "By God we are the children of this country too." "You must support a youth like me." "What are you saying?" "Shut up!" "Never mind." "Shit!" "Shut up!" "I think Lantouri is not a good name for your film, because this film is the story of Maryam and her forgiveness, not that boy and Lantouri Gang." "Maryam waived her right." "Forgiving was not Maryam's duty." "It was her kindness." "After numerous surgeries, one of her eyes can see the light." "The doctors say the sight of that eye will return little by little." "God sees it." "I want to get up." "I want to live." "I can persuade the victims' families more easily... to withdraw their complaint." "DEDICATED TO GREAT PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE STRENGTH TO FORGIVE" "Navid Mohammadzadeh" "Maryam Palizban" "Mehdi Kooshki Bahram afshari" "And Baran Kosari" "In Lantouri" "Writer and Director Reza Dormishian" "Director of Photography Ashkan Ashkani" "Editor Hayedeh Safiyari" "Music Kayhan Kalhor" "Supervising,Sound Editing and Designer Mohammad Reza Delpak" "Production Manager Mohammad Reza Mansoori 3-D Makeup Designer Abdollah Eskandari" "Makeup Designer Mehrdad Mirkiyani" "Set Designer Mohsen Nasrollahi" "Costume Designer Golnaz Golshan" "Sound Recordist Sa'eed Bojnoordi" "Producer Reza Dormishian"