gime.”
And despite sporadic laughs here and there, most of Moore’s sardonic humour appeared to fall flat. The end of the film was also greeted with some half-hearted clapping.
“The problem is the subtitles,” said Sogol Zand, an English teacher. “The jokes are not as funny.”
Others, obviously out for a rare taste of Hollywood entertainment, disagreed.
“It was just too political. I was bored from the middle, and I wished we had gone to see “Kill Bill” instead,” said one young man, referring to the trendy Quentin Tarantino flick also being shown.
But those of the older generation appeared to relate well to the film, which succeeded in sparking some vigorous after-show chatter.
“I saw it as an Iranian who has also lived in America,” said Kourosh Amini, a man in his 50s. “It perfectly depicted the realities of American life, and they have to learn what war really looks like.”
And even though his twenty-something son quipped in to say he was “disappointed” by the film and asserted “politics is not as important” for Iran’s younger generation, he did envy Moore’s position.
“It sure is a great country, where someone like Moore trashes the president and gets away with it — and makes so much money!” he laughed.
Another woman said she was impressed with the scene where Moore chases US congressmen to ask them if they would send their children to Iraq.
“How many top officials here sent their offspring to fight in the Iran-Iraq war?” asked the woman, one of several who directed their frustrations at Iranian authorities — and not President Bush.
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