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...been your most provocative guest? No one more than the host. I wish more people were provocative. I wouldn't ever say there's censorship in this country. But there's a lot of peer pressure. Because when anybody says anything that's the least bit feather ruffling, everybody just goes nuts. If anybody in this country is forced to undergo a single moment of discomfort, the person who caused it just must go away...
...director Jafar Panahi uses such back-and-forth to highlight the absurdity of a rule that doesn't allow women to enjoy the beautiful game. But the conversation could easily apply to Iran's film industry as well: the Islamic republic is the prison guard, defending its heavy-handed censorship as a way to protect its citizens, and filmmakers like Panahi are the upstart prisoners, arguing that citizens should be free to make up their own minds. "When I come across a problem in society that pains me, it's my responsibility to make a film to address the problem...
...just not my way." Panahi may still not have the international reputation of Iran's cinematic grand masters like Cannes winner Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry) or Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Kandahar), but his unblinking, gritty style is quickly turning him into the country's most courageous social filmmaker. Poverty, censorship, the justice system, women's rights - the subjects he tackles read like a list of hot-button issues guaranteed to tick off the authorities. In his 1995 feature debut The White Balloon, a little girl out to buy a goldfish is preyed upon by hustlers trying to separate her from...
...challenged the audience by asking whether the United States would go into Iraq if the vice president and half of the Senate and House of Representatives were women. Thomas M. Scanlon, the final panelist and Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Policy, warned against self-censorship and fear to speak up. “The reason that someone can be offended is not a good defense of censorship... it is too easy to claim offense or to be genuinely be offended,” he said. Most of the questions and remarks from the audience were directed...
Stringent censorship policies against “objectionable” content stunted the Boston arts scene for much of the last two centuries. The phrase “Banned in Boston” became a joke among the cultural elite, who observed that censorship in Boston meant almost guaranteed success in the rest of the country...