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The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024)

Film

DirectorMohammad Rasoulof

Meta takes2

Figures

Objects & symbols

The smartphone as a contested object of surveillance and resistance

Locations

The family apartment as a site of surveillance

Tropes

The daughters' use of their smartphones to view protest videos → Affective Contagion
The nuclear family unit of Iman, Najmeh, Rezvan, and Sana
Iman's missing pistol → Phallic Lack

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Mad Max (1979) — via Phallic Lack
Late Autumn (2010) — via Affective Contagion
Joker (2019) — via Affective Contagion
Videodrome (1983) — via Affective Contagion
Amores Perros (2000) — via Affective Contagion