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Paziraie sadeh (2012)
Absurd movie
Watched this movie yesterday on the Rotterdam Filmfestival, and still wondering what I have seen and why all these provocative aspects were in this movie.
The director, also one of the two main characters, tried to explain some aspects about this movie afterwards, without giving very clear answers.
But what I saw, was a display of people, willing to do a lot of things for money. For example, selling a dead baby to feed the wolves, instead to bury it in 24 hours (which succeeds). Helping an alcohol smuggler with his sick donkey, to avoid getting it killed (but later they will kill it anyways). Asking around for marijuana, which is eventually delivered. A lot of other, even more shocking stories and social behaviour are being displayed, while nobody in this movie seemed surprised or offended by it.
And last but not least, there is a lot of display of western brands, like the cigarettes, the car...
Not the things I would imagine in a country like Iran. I think it's a protest story about the regulations in Iran: despite all the rules, everything is possible and accepted. By the absurd screenplay most people will consider it a joke, but I don't think these themes were meant to be a joke.
The movie made a huge impression to me and fills my mind all this day.
Avatar (2009)
So unrealistic
1 for storyline, 10 for visual effects and cinematography makes 5.5.
A lot of reviewers already stated that the story is rubbish. I will not explain my view on that because i agree with all of them.
Imagine to see a beautiful world, colonized by humans. Imagine conflicts between local people and the newcomers, technically superior. Imagine a fight between the sympathetic locals and the evil humans, which the locals win. Hurrah! But that's not the way it usually goes.
Imagine when history books mentions that the native American-Indian people defeated the Europeans. We would all be surprised, because that's not the way events occurred. Instead of that, it was pure genocide of "rightless" people. It would have great if Avatar was a movie in which it demonstrated humans destroy a beautiful planet for their own benefit. Just the way it happened to current USA, Australia and more. We would all be stunned because the outstanding visual effects would have demonstrated so well how we react when we think we own someone else's place. But no, just a stupid love story and the humans flying back to their mommy's.