Iman (The Seed of The Sacred Fig)

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Iman is the main antagonist of the 2024 Iranian political thriller film The Seed of The Sacred Fig.

His Evil Ranking[]

His Villainous Deeds[]

• He is complicit in the Revolutionary Court's orders to lock up and kill thousands of teenage protestors fighting for women's rights. Many of these protestors got scarred or killed, including a young girl who was shot in the eye over twelve times.
• He rams his car into a protestor's car for exposing his location and threatens to kill them with his new gun.
• He locks up his wife, Najmeh, and daughter, Rezvan, for confessing they stole his gun, before knowing it was his other daughter, Sana, who stole it.
• He holds Sana at gunpoint while she does the same, this leads to his death after Sana shoots and he is buried in sand.

Why Doesn't He Stand Out?[]

• Despite doing thousands of executions on innocents, these are all done under order from a greater evil, and he always relents to commit them, since they don't let him read the case file before signing. Even though this greater evil is never revealed, he still can't be considered worse. Also, while he attempts to become a powerful judge, this doesn't mean he will become more heinous than his superiors.
• His family abuse is not nearly as heinous as the police who beat thousands of rioters to death.
• He is an anti-villain: he cares about his family even though it becomes twisted in the end. He even brings them food while he locks them up, and screamed for Sana's life (until she tricked him and locked him in).
• He is affable to his colleagues.
• He is very insecure as he doesn't feel safe in his own home after his gun is taken and is paranoid of his family. He prays in the beginning of the movie and was an honorable lawyer for 20 years, too.
• His death is played for sympathy, as is his whole villain arc. He is symbolic of how hard it is to survive whether your job is for good or evil.