My obsession with this book, and the reason I made this into a film, is because it at once was addressing the question of being a female -- traditionally, historically in Iran -- and the question of four women who are all looking for an idea of change, freedom and democracy -- while the country of Iran, equally, as if another character, also struggled for an idea of freedom and democracy
私がこの本に執着し 映画化を決定した理由は この本がイラン人女性であることの 伝統的・歴史的問題を すぐに取り上げただけでなく 海外の介入からの 自由や独立・民主制といった 概念を求めてイランが もがいている最中に 変革・自由・民主制を提唱した