Gomeshi, Jian. "Jian Ghomeshi: Argo Is Crowd-pleasing, Entertaining--and Unfair to Iranians."The Globe and Mail. N.p., 02 Nov. 2012. Web. 09 Mar. 2014.
In this article Gomeshi is criticizing Argo, but not for the reasons one might think. This is not a typical movie review because Gomeshi is not criticizing the technical parts of the movie, but instead the emotions that the movie plays on. He talks about how this film is made from the perspective of the typical Westerner, therefore it plays on the emotions and feelings that many Westerns have towards Iranians today. He mentions how all Iranians in this film are portrayed as either bad people or generally suspicious people, and not one is portrayed as a good person. At the end of the article he talks about a movie that came out twenty years ago. The film, Not Without My Daughter, was particularly racist towards the U.S.-Iran experience, and yet nothing was said or done about it. Twenty years later Argo comes out still showing some of those same prejudices towards Iranians, and again nothing was said or done to combat them.
This article will contribute to my Inquiry 2 paper because it talks more about the political side of this film, which is what I intend to focus on. When I first watched this movie I did not see it as racist towards Iranians, but after reading this article I think maybe it is because I am a typical American that sees Iranians as bad people (even subconsciously perhaps). I do however remember that the Canadian ambassador had a housekeeper that protected the Americans in the end, so I do see that as at least one positive image of an Iranian. This article will definitely be helpful to my paper.