Art Through Limitation
When Abbas Kiarostami could not show a woman's face, he showed her voice. When he could not show violence, he showed its aftermath. Iranian cinema proves that artistic constraints do not diminish art — they distill it.
The Child's Eye
Kiarostami and Majidi used children as protagonists not because they were easier to film but because children see the world without the filters adults have learned. Their innocence is not naivety — it is clarity.