Beautiful Abbas

Christa 2022-01-21 08:02:41

A crew came to a small mountain village in Iran to shoot a movie. The love of two of the selected extras was interspersed in the filming process. The cheerful music from the last rush can tell that this humble stonemason finally got his wish. .
There is nothing peculiar about the story, some dialogues are even very wordy, plus trivial plots, in fact most of the time is very dull, I remember not long ago I was planning to watch another Iranian film "The White Balloon". "It is precisely because of its wordy dialogue that cut off my interest in it. But I still need to mention that the director’s kindness and intentions in the story touched me very much. In addition, the selection of the drama in the play is very unique. It stands on the front of a small mottled and damaged house in front of a large number of backgrounds collapsed by the earthquake. , Is a pair of lively little lovers, and a neat row of dense flowers. Isn't this exactly what the directors hope for a poor, hierarchical Iran?
*****
It's still early today, so I picked a movie randomly, and it just so happened that this movie is not too long, but it also took two hours intermittently. A documentary film like this left me a deeper impression I'm afraid it's still , of course, the director style is different, and Afghanistan and Iran should also be two separate countries, but they both have many horrible and helpless problems, such as those that can be seen everywhere. Poverty, and after many years, the boundaries between ranks and ethnicities are still tight and contradictory. The director created a film like this, not only with good wishes for his nation, but also with deep compassion. And the faint sorrow.

Sometimes, the biggest beauty of the movie is that it allows us to face another nation so close.

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  • Hossein: Mam, I'm really sorry. I want to do everything you ask me, but I won't do masonry. I don't work in construction anymore. I came to act in your film. I will work as an actor, but not as a mason.