#Narges Rashidi

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Narges Rashidi Iranian Actress

𝐷𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑀𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠

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Shideh in Under the Shadow (2016)

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I started watching Gangs of London and I'm already obsessed/in love with Lale (I have a type), but now I find that almost no one on here gives a fuck about the show 💔😔 classic tumblr

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Gangs of London, Season One (2020)

Directed by Gareth Evans, Corin Hardy & Xavier Gens, Cinematography by Matt Flannery, Martijn van Broekhuizen & Laurent Barès

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I'm obsessed with Lale and highly enjoyed watching her kick fuck out of everybody!

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Gangs of London

(S02E03)

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Narges Rashidi

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Narges Rashidi // 2023 

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Gangs of London is almost finished.

📸: Narges Rashidi's Instagram story.

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Gangs of London

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Last month I watched Under the Shadow (2016) a Persian-language film about a mother and daughter stuck in their Tehran apartment during the Iran-Iraq war. While being bombed from the outside, they are also being terrorized by some supernatural force from the inside. It’s a great horror movie - there’s even a creepy doll - and I highly recommend. 

I’ve been thinking about Under the Shadow a lot since February 24. Though there are many culturally specific details in the film, it feels timelessly relevant. That reluctance to leave, realizing too late that there is no longer any choice. The scene that moved me most is when the mother and daughter are overwhelmed by the malicious spirits in their apartment and they run out into the street in terror - with no shoes and no chador. The relief at encountering the police is shattered when the men chastise the mother for being improperly dressed and arrest her. She isn’t safe inside or outside her home, not from the supernatural, not from other humans. Beyond illustrating the crushing nature of living under a theocracy, this scene illustrates that war doesn’t negate all the other stressors in your life. You live under an oppressive government? Now you live under an oppressive government at war. You have marriage troubles? Now you have marriage troubles in a war. Your apartment is haunted? Now it is haunted while also being bombed. You’re living through a pandemic? Now you have to remember to wear your mask while you flee. War compounds every stress already present. 

While there is no twist at the end to make a viewer believe the djinn is all in the mother’s head, there is an underlying implication that the effect of being crushed from all sides could drive anyone to see things that might not really be there. Maybe the spirits are real, but there is no doubt the terror and stress are real. 

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Gangs of London, Season Two (2022)

Directed by Corin Hardy, Marcela Said & Nima Nourizadeh, Cinematography by Martijn van Broekhuizen, Laurent Barès, Björn Charpentier & Petrus Sjövik

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“Ever since I took over, people keep telling me to do this, do that...”

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Narges Rashidi as Shideh in Under the Shadow (2016)

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#31DaysofHorror Day 3: Under the Shadow (2016, dir. Babak Anvari)

holy shit i did not expect it to be this good. i don't have much coherent to say because it's half past midnight and my heart is beating out of my chest. that doesn't happen often with horror films, but here the tension just got higher and higher and higher until i felt just as trapped and panicked as shideh. narges rashidi is fucking magnetic in this role and her performance completely carries the film. the text is so rich with politics, socioeconomics, violence, trauma, gender, family. the way the house turns from a place of safety into the embodiment of the haunting through an act of violence. good stuff.