Mia’s TA Introduction

For this textual analysis, I have selected Ana Lily Amirpour’s 2014 cinematic creation, dubbed as “The First Iranian Vampire Western,” titled ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.’ This film is set during the time of its production in 2014 and weaves a narrative around the character Arash, a young man burdened by his father’s addiction, and ‘The Girl,’ a vampiric protagonist who embarks on a mission to eliminate the evil men of Bad City, thereby safeguarding its female inhabitants. I have chosen the section of the film from 1:20:19 to 1:25:19, which constitutes the film’s climactic scene. In this sequence, ‘The Girl’ kills Arash’s father, who, in a morally reprehensible act, violates a woman by forcing her to take drugs unwillingly. In the aftermath of this vendetta, ‘The Girl’ leaves the father’s lifeless body thrown across the sombre streets of Bad City, leaving his son to grapple with the grisly discovery. To analyse this section, I am focussing on the director’s use of cinematography (including visual motifs), sound design and the filmmaker’s cinematic vision. The context examined focuses on social and political factors connected to the film around its production time.

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