7/10
A very subtle movie wrapped and unfolded like breaking an onion
10 November 2019
Muti-layered screenplay with a storyline inside a storyline. It involved a movie making process, a hopeless romance from one of the temporary recruit actor, an illiterate, his sincere but helpless and fruitless quest for a local high school young woman. The shifting between the movie making and the quest for love was so subtle, even sometimes difficult to separate, but it's seamlessly done. There were repeated scene after scene with the same dialog that the director insisted to be exactly as the script, but sometimes, we saw the illiterate actor pointed out to him his ignorance of the local traditions and etiquette, making the literates also became illiterates.

We also saw how the Iranian males' disorganized bad habits, their non-stop blabbering, blah, blah and blah. But as most of the Iranian movies, once the localities were in the countryside, the beauty of this country is just beyond any word could describe. I don't know why Iran was demonized nowadays, but the Iranian people, especially those who live in the countryside, most of them are wonderful people, kind, peaceful and fully accept and recognize their fates and lives, and they are so resilient and tough when facing poverty, natural disasters and catastrophes. They are the real Muslims, because they all have a peaceful mind and great heart.
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