-“Are you a normal person?”-“Am I abnormal?”

persian cinema is really just wonderful. i love practically everything about this film. the overall design of the vignettes themselves, focusing on characters increasing age to highlight how the absurdity of authoritarianism is omnipresent over lifetimes. the static long takes to further accentuate this feeling of anguish and mundanity throughout the film. just a wonderfully made and well crafted film all throughout.

-“Are you a normal person?”-“Am I abnormal?”

persian cinema is really just wonderful. i love practically everything about this film. the overall design of the vignettes themselves, focusing on characters increasing age to highlight how the absurdity of authoritarianism is omnipresent over lifetimes. the static long takes to further accentuate this feeling of anguish and mundanity throughout the film. just a wonderfully made and well crafted film all throughout.

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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.