Revengeful Acts as a Radical Reaction to Modern World in Post-Qaysar Movies (A Case Study of Reza Motori, Gavaznha, and Kandoo)

The movie Qaysar marks the entrance of Jaheli movies into the “revengeful” phase. This revengefulness was depicted in different ways in the movies, the protagonists of which were extensions of the Qaysar type. In this article we have investigated the post-Qaysar revengeful act by studying three movies: Reza Motori, Gavaznha (The Deers), and Kandoo (Beehive). My approach to the study of the film is that of a sociological intra-textual reading - a reading that studies the Laat in the context of the social world that is his condition of possibility, and is depicted in the movie itself. We have hypothesized a “situation of balance” in the narrative of the movie: a situation the disruption of which makes the formation of the movie plot possible. Having this situation in the background we have tried to answer these two main questions: In what situation would the Laat refrain from a revengeful act? And now that the situation of balance is disrupted, how does he react to the new situation? Our study shows that in such movies, we are dealing with a process that represents both the radicalization of the Laat and his losing self-consciousness in his acts. These two aspects eventually lead to a total conflict with all manifestations of the modern world. This total conflict is activated through a minor incident. The movies are coded through a qualitative content analysis. The categories achieved are not presented in tables, but in an analytic textual body instead, in an attempt to explain the radicalization process. The process could only be presented in the flow of text and not in the form of table.