A central premise of 3 Faces seems to be: "Everything falls apart without rules."
Whether those are traditional rules determined lifetimes ago, or new rules that change every other day, life even in the remote unwalled valley lands bordering Azerbaijan and Iran would be impossible without them. Or would it?
There are rules (beliefs, customs, traditions) about how best to release a man's foreskin, rules about how to treat a dying bull, regularly changeable rules about the best way to share a windy one lane road. But the central tenet seems to suggest that the line is fuzzy around whether or not it's okay to take your own life and/or fake your own suicide just to get the attention you need so you can finally get where you want to be.
Maybe it's the cultural divide that has left me without any clear resolution. Maybe I'm not meant to really "get" any big meaning from 3 Faces. The title, for example, continues to elude me. Maybe it's that the pure entertainment of it all ought to be enough.
It's certainly interesting to ponder life in the region, so different from our own in so many ways, and so similarly filled with various colourful characters and, strangely, a familiar need for cellular phones. And rules.
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3 Faces screens Sunday February 3rd at 9:15 pm, and Thursday February 7th at 4:15 pm at the Capitol 6.
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