I know Iranian women have to cover their hair in public but why when they were all friends and family did they keep wearing their headscarves at the villa? I thought they could wear whatever they wanted in private.
Is it just because the film is for an Iranian audience? Are films shown in Iran if female characters don't wear headscarves?
Hey, its because as its a movie, legally speaking they HAVE to wear it.
To be honest, if the hijab wasn't enforced by the "morality police" not many would wear it even outside there homes in Iran.
Stop making such assumptions about people you don't know about. Muslims outside of middle east wear hijab, moron. Islams has is cultures and just because it's different, doesn't mean it's wrong. Cultures is what defines us and what makes us who we are. Discrimination is racism and filling people with false and destructive information is propaganda.
shareI wasn't trying to make assumptions about anyone.
I was puzzled as I've only seen 2-3 Iranian films and all the female characters wear one.
But in this particular film it's strange that one of the female characters (looking for Elly) keeps trying to swim with her head scarf on.
kim_pusoker was obviously replying to rockin_metal_baz3310, dumbass!
shareWhat a crazy response. In Saudi Arabia, probably the strictest "Islamic state," women take off their coverings inside their homes around their family. The opening post was just asking if this was the case in Iran.
I don't know if it's the case in Iran. But it would surprise me if it wasn't. I imagine most Iranian women do not wear a head scarf when they're in their homes with their family. You'd have to ask an Iranian though.
Hi.
I'm from Iran and hijab is not required when you're home and with family or friends.
muslim women can only show their hair to their relative, this is a movie so all the actor is not their relatives so all the actresses cant show theirs'. In Muslim Law, hair is the crown of woman, the beauty of woman, and only relatives and her husband can see it, its special & expensive anyway.
shareThis is an interesting question! Suppose that in a movie there's a scene with two ladies talking in a living room in the house of one of them. There's nobody else in the house, so they can take off their hijabs. But they are seen by the audience in the theater! This question gets to the very core of the nature of Cinema - actors are real for the audience?
agreed! a good movie need a strong script and good acting, not their REAL body. Ever heard sex-theme movie get any award. Oh yeah, award is not their attention, their real attention is money.
THRILLER IS MY FOOD!
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Also, although they were with friends, they were mixed sexes and so the women couldn't show themselves to the other men in the group
shareI grew up in a practicing Muslim household and from ten to twenty I observed hijab (wearing the scarf). Therefore, I can see why the women wear scarves even in private places. They aren't all related to each other (men to the women) and with mostly no doors and locks, the villa isn't the place to discard coverings. The men pop in and out of the rooms and if you observe hijab, you don't feel comfortable without it unless it was strictly only women, your husband or male relative you can't marry (small kids, brothers, fathers, grandpa, etc). So, it did not occur to me that it was strange that the women wore scarves through out the movie and I didn't know Iran s laws concerning coverage by actresses in movies.
shareyes this is correct.. I am a saudi female so I know this first hand. muslim women are obliged by relegion (not law) to cover their hair from all men that are not immediate relatives. immediate relatives here mean: sons, father, grandfather, grandsons, uncles and nephews and father in law.
all other men including friends and cousins can not sea a woman with out her hijab and that includes covering all parts of the body except face and hands and feet. Of course the description of hijab differs from one sect to another, some even include the face like in some parts of saudi arabia.
I dont know about Iranian laws but ive heard before that its true that women in iranian movies have to adhere to Hijab by law, not sure though.