A very enlightening look at the everyday life of Iranian residents. Composed of around eight vignettes, it showcases how bureaucracy crushes everyone's lives in Iran. What I admired most is the lack of pedagogy--you don't what could have been the a tearjerker pity party for dissidents of the regime, but instead more subtler moments on how everything from a driving ticket to a job application to (in the film's slyest scene) a script readthrough stifles everyone's ambitions.
A very enlightening look at the everyday life of Iranian residents. Composed of around eight vignettes, it showcases how bureaucracy crushes everyone's lives in Iran. What I admired most is the lack of pedagogy--you don't what could have been the a tearjerker pity party for dissidents of the regime, but instead more subtler moments on how everything from a driving ticket to a job application to (in the film's slyest scene) a script readthrough stifles everyone's ambitions.