What the hell kind of work were they doing in that building? The place looked like *beep* and nothing ever seemed to get done. It looked very much like fake work, as did her work moving rocks out of the river.
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In developing countries where labor is cheap and technology is not very advanced, most of the work is done by laborers and it takes ages to build one house. I am from one of those countries and believe me you will see many building skeletons like the one shown in Baran in cities. Some of the building sites are even dirtier than the one shown in the movie because the workers are so poor that they live on the site in the midst of rocks and cement till the house is built.
Regarding picking stones from the river, I am not sure. However, I know of many professions such as "rag picking," (picking paper products from the trash for recycling purposes) which are specific to underdeveloped countries. So I would not be surpised if that was indeed a job that was done by laborers in Iran.
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shareI felt its stupid that the girl is making so much painful facial expressions whereas the other female workers of similar age didn't make much expressions and just about doing there work.
But I presume it would be quite painful to work that way as the river water must be ice cold and fingers would get numb as they pick those heavy jagged rocks.
Hey It is my assumption,
About work:-
I have read that at many place they use the old age technique to move wooden blocks through water for transportation and these rocks may block the way for these woods thus I think they were moving rocks. ( If you will see, There were two scene of this work, at first they move rock and in second they were moving wooden blocks)
About Painful expressions of girl:-
It is sure that Lateef (The Boy) was in love with her (BARAN), and the pain on her face was his feeling for her which director wanted to show, I am sure that other girls were also in pain, but the pain that we saw, was Lateef felling for BARAN.
I think I am correct.
Regards,
Pawan
I think you got it, ranjeet-jha-vv. I visited the non-tourist part of Tiajuana Mexico in 1990 and I saw something similar. All over the neighborhood were crews of people moving big rocks out of the road and putting them on the sides. Some of the women did struggle with the size and weight of the little boulders. Although they had to worry about the super hot sun and not ice cold water like Baran.
To someone who is used to seeing machines do such hard manual labor, it does look like unnecessary make work. From an engineer's point of view, if you can hire people to do the work for less than the price of gasoline to fill up a construction equipment tank, why not?
I took those painful facial expressions literally. Since it's a film, I didn't primarily observe her pain as symbolic of Lateef's pain. Even if the director meant that on a some level, there's no way of making that symbolic interpretation by itself (unless we're reading it from a book). I interpreted Lateef's pain through his literal tears as he watched the girl struggle in the river.
From that extreme physical struggle, I assumed that the girl was weak and hard manual labor was too difficult for her. Her character is supposed to be aged about 13-14 years with a small frame, while the other adult women were older and stronger looking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbhrz1-4hN4
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