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Essay / Analysis: Women Without a Man - 1220
This time, she used a new medium, the feature film, to express her feelings about Iranian society, and she said that the film tells a story rather than conveys a concept . (754). In this way, the film Women Without Men tells the story of four women in Islamic society, and Neshat got tired of using these four moving and sad stories to reflect the status of women in Islamic society. Shirin Neshat divided the film into different sections, and each section tells a single story of each woman (754). All from different social classes and backgrounds, they meet in a garden where they try to live in safety during the difficult period of the 1953 coup d'état (754). Zarin is a young woman from the lowest social class who does not want to become a prostitute, and her struggle was manifested when she got lost in a brothel (754). Munis and Faezeh represent two positions of women in the middle class; Munis cares about political events, but his brother always prevents him from participating in political events (Danto 223); In this way, Munis' struggle emphasizes a gender issue in Islamic society, namely that women have the right to participate in political events. On the contrary, compared to Munis, Faezeh is a very traditional woman, however, this character in the film reflects a serious problem in Islamic society, which is sexual assault (215). Unlike the others