Scream of the Ants Page #4

Synopsis: A girl believing in God marries an atheist, who is consumed by doubt. They decide to spend their honeymoon in India. Searching the countryside for a guru called the "perfect man," who fobs them off with a message in invisible ink. Seeking for the truth, the wife starts performing rituals by dunking herself in the Ganges river, while naked old men cavort around her...
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Director(s): Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Production: Vagrant Films
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Year:
2006
85 min
Website
160 Views


- Thank you.

But you know, my friend, I'll tell you one thing.

If you go to a perfect man,

you can see the good things. But if the

you go on foot, you will have a vision.

What kind of person

This perfect man? Say it.

The perfect man? Oh, God!

You've heard what they say about him.

He is a divine person.

You have to see it. Say

His face lights up like a flower.

Lower the window. The wind will carry it.

No, please do not open!

Please do not open the window!

A fly can fly.

We have to bring it back to the same place.

He takes us back?

He's crazy!

What's with him?

He's crazy. Let's go out.

He is coming back.

What can we do?

It reminded me

grandfather. He was a great singer.

Look.

He remembers his grandfather.

You turn around? Are you going back?

I shall return.

It is unlikely that it will take

Tell him to stop.

Why are you laughing?

Foot? Are you sure?

Do not laugh.

Tell him that we walk.

Wait. Stop, please.

We want to get out.

We want to go here.

Stop! Stop!

Why do you speak French?

Stop the car.

We want to get out. Stop the car!

I ask you to stop!

Tell him

that if he was a believer,

he would not

We disembark from the insect.

Every step we kill at least

one ant. We have to choose.

If you want to see

a perfect man,

you have to become a killer ants.

If you stop,

you will become a victim.

I am a killer.

I'm a murderer, because I go.

Forgive me, God.

God, get the ants out of my way.

I gotta go.

Dead ant.

I heard him scream.

God, can you hear the cries of your ants?

One ant died.

Two ants.

Three ant.

Four. Five.

God, are you listening? You hear them moan?

You saddened by the death of your ants?

Hello

Hello

- Do you speak in English?

- A little bit.

Sorry, what's your name?

People call me a shepherd.

We are looking for

Perfect man. Do you know where he is?

Yes, I know. Follow me.

You saw it?

I've seen it several times.

- Did you see how he's doing wonders?

- No.

Why do people doing a

a long way to see it?

Ask them.

He is an interesting man.

Do you believe in God?

Every man is his own God.

Who do you ask for help,

When you are lonely or you suffer?

Birth - suffering.

Death - suffering. Defeat - suffering.

Victory - suffering. All that we have,

all that we have, they are also suffering.

Is suffering. Desire is also suffering.

Yes, but what do you think?

Do you think God exists?

God exists or not.

If you say that God is,

what it is. If you say,

that He does not exist, then He is not.

This is his home.

Call him and wait.

If it will not be long to answer you,

do not despair. Continue to call.

Monsieur perfect man!

Monsieur perfect man!

The perfect man! Are you here?

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Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Persian: محسن مخملباف‎, Mohsen Makhmalbaaf; born May 29, 1957) is an Iranian film director, writer, film editor, and producer. He has made more than 20 feature films, won some 50 awards and been a juror in more than 15 major film festivals. His award-winning films include Kandahar; his latest documentary is The Gardener and latest feature The President. Makhmalbaf's films have been widely presented at international film festivals in the past ten years. The director belongs to the new wave movement of Iranian cinema. Time selected Makhmalbaf's 2001 film Kandahar as one of the top 100 films of all time. In 2006, he was a member of the Jury at the Venice Film Festival. Makhmalbaf left Iran in 2005 shortly after the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sixth President of Iran, and has lived in Paris since the events of the 2009 Iranian presidential election. more…

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