So much for my big idea

“It’s said that in the beginning was the word, but for me the beginning is always an image.”

Shirin

When I wrote about the pernicious fascination of images and the Islamic suspicion of them and how that might perhaps have influenced some Iranian films, I hadn’t been to see Shirin: a whole film that rests on denying the image. Not to say that there isn’t plenty of eye candy in all that raven hair, [...]