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Before the Revolution (2013)
An amazing documentary
If you are interested in Iran's contemporary history and the middle east in general; don't miss out on this movie. It brings a period of time to our attention that despite all the books and documentaries and movies that have been discussing and describing it; lots of it's aspects have remained unknown "The Iranian Revolution", Dan Shadur the son of an Israeli couple amongst many of the Israeli community in Tehran before the revolution, interviews his fathers colleagues and friends about their experiences of living in Iran, their memories, the circumstances and the pros and cons, surprisingly they all have a unique feeling toward Iran, and talk about their memories with a great passion; they talk about the similarities between Iranians and Jewish people, their life style in Tehran and their high salaries and it was very entertaining and interesting at the same time to look at the pictures of Iran decades ago. As an Iranian I did not know that such relations existed between Iran and Israel, it was really interesting and I think I'm going to watch it again.
Red State (2011)
Westboro Baptist Church
I think the core idea of the movie is taken from what Westboro Baptist Church led by Fred Phelps is stands for; the difference is Phelps believes that whoever does not act according to his understanding of the bible will burn in hell; while Abin Cooper (Michael Parks) not only believes that; but takes action to physically eliminate those infidels on behalf of god in a ceremony in his church and that's why it's interesting to watch. The movie is something close to a Horror movie but not quiet a horror movie, it kind of justifies the crazy believers in a special way and demonizes the government officials and the great disappointment was that they obviously did not have any clue how to rap it up so they involved god to support Cooper (a physic murderer) in the end of the movie, over all it was nice to have something to watch while having my soup otherwise it was a waste of time.
Seven Pounds (2008)
Salvation
Tim Thomas (Will Smith) hunted by the guilt of the death of his wife and seven others in a car accident, seeks 7 good, decent people and saves their lives by donating his organs to them, eventually a unique and remarkable relationship emerges between him and the people he helps however the story ends when he donates his heart to a girl that he begins to love. The idea behind the movie and the way Tim behaves is kind of rooted to Christian tenets since he seeks peace by punishing/sacrificing himself and he gives whatever he owns "including his own life" to people in need (just like Jesus Christ). An important point here though is that he seems to be extremely depressed and in need of help, it is painful to watch someone seeking peace by destroying himself yet Tim deals with his griefs in his own way with a remarkable temerity, and finally finds salvation. Some great symbolic scenes are presented as well such as: donating your heart/ your life to a girl you love, committing suicide by a jelly fish that has roots in your memories with your father and in the end a blind guy who can look at your love by your own eyes and your love standing there staring in your eyes while your heart is beating inside of her chest. It's a great movie, and definitely worths watching.
Her (2013)
Lonely humans and super operating system lovers
The movie was decent, despite the kind of depressing mode of the movie, there are two significant points about it that makes it a very good story to follow, first; Theodore is a mid aged divorced guy who is suffering from depression and probably Histrionic personality disorder (people with HPD could be afraid of committing to someone thus their subconscious mind pushes them toward people who most likely will abandon them -as his ex wife refers to this fact in their little chat-, or they could simply go for online long distance relationships or probably in a not very far future "HER" the super operating system lover), I don't think the idea was in any way odd or inappropriate, but the beauty of the movie is when you see the difficulties Samantha goes through to understand human feelings, needs and emotions and how this newly emerged feelings are engaging with feelings of a lonely guy who sees a mirage of hope and happiness and falls in love of the idea of having Samantha. Samantha also presents a young girl, who is trying to understand her feelings about love, and at the same time the movie talks about the fact that if anything or anyone have the same mentality and reasoning system as humans, will face the same critical questions, "Why am I here?", "Why I feel in certain way?" and deals with fear, love, hate, regret etc.
300: Rise of an Empire (2014)
This movie is an insult to any Persian
I'm a Persian, I watched the movie last night and I think it was really unjust to our history, and it's not making it OK by simply saying that it was made upon a comic book, there are many points which I couldn't close my eyes on and this is why I'm writing this. if you don't care about the accuracy of historical events you will probably enjoy the movie and in that case you don't need to read this review just move on to the next. But if you are aware of the conflicts between the east and west, the history of Greko- Persian wars and relationships etc you will suffer thorough the movie and here is why: 1- The history is twisted in the movie and very one sided 2- The movie makers present Persians as terrorists since they use suicide bombers to win the battle which is a shame, how could they relate something that accrued just in the recent history to a great nation like Persia!. 3- The Persian king Xerxes, is presented as a cowered, Darius, father of Xerxes was killed by Themistokles, a Greek general, and before his last breathes he tells Xerxes that "do not repeat my mistake, only gods can defeat Greeks"! while Darius never left Persia to attend this war and he was not killed by Themistokles and until this day, Iranians are visiting his tomb and paying him respect. 4- The customs for Iranian soldiers and the king himself are simply Arabic customs, the general who trained Artemisia is a black person, with my respect to Arabs and every other racial group, I'm I the only one who notices this movie and feels deeply sorry for the racist movie makers?! Is it hard to tell Persians and Arabs and Blacks apart? It's just sick man who are these wild, not civilized people with long beards in this movie? With a simple look at the statues of Persepolis you can find out how Persians looked like. 6- Muhammad Dandamayev a Russian historian, mentions in his famous book "A political history of the Achaemenid empire"; that after the Spartans killed the Persians messengers they realized what a big mistake they did and sent two soldiers to Persia so they can be killed instead of the Persian messengers and Xerxes tells them "I would be like a nation that violated the internationally known values and performed a disrespecting act of cowardliness" apparently this scene was shown as a remarkable thing to do in the movie 7- Last and most important point is in the movie, the Persians did not care about the slaves and the soldiers who were killed but the Greeks were defending not only their country but the freedom and democracy and apparently they don't have any slaves working for them, while slavery was widely spread at that time and it wasn't like the recent slavery of African people, the color did not matter and the Greeks were using them to build their citadels like Acropolis, surprisingly the Persians were paying workers to build Persepolis! the reason I remember this one in particular is that it was discovered just recently, archaeologists found some payment receipts made of rocks if I'm not mistaken belonged to workers who participated in building Persepolis from different nations. Democracy does not have the same meaning as the democracy we know nowadays, it's funny how this movie reflects the American perspective toward Middle-east.