My favourite teacher insisted that we watch these Iranian foreign films. MY LORD! They are incredibly depressing, and end on the most obscure point of the movie! The one we finished today was "The Song of Sparrows", directed by Majid Majidi. (He also directed "Children of Heaven", another film we had to watch). Now, this is English class, so our grade is based upon how we read the English subtitles to the film, and not so much on how we react to it...however, I always feel guilty for laughing at the unessesary slo-mo shots.
SPOLIER: The ending of The Song of Sparrows involved an ostritch (birds scare the s**t out of me as it is) doing some w