Ugh like yes it’s really aesthetically pleasing and beautiful but wtf was the second half??? Felt like we built up to the crescendo and then the music just DIES. The epilogue?? Terrible. And confusing with the casting.
Also I’m so over post war Europe movies there r so many more cool things that have happened in the world that haven’t been explored!!! Can we please move past post war Europe I am begging!!!
(Kinda felt like Zionist propaganda icl)
There are some absolutely stunning and earth shatteringly beautiful works of Persian cinema out there. Ones that tell the tales of the oldest culture in the world, showing off Iran’s staggering landscapes, accompanied by haunting melodies, that are written like pieces of age old poetry.
This is not that.
This film is the real life story of how a country and society can be completely overtaken by a destructive, soul crushing regime.
It shows the reality- when you’re surrounded and…
Probably the first movie I remember watching with my dad. I was very young. He told me, one day, when you’re old enough, we’ll watch this movie again and smoke throughout it. Just like they do when they discuss the case.
We’ve watched 12 angry men together maybe 20 times. And all of a sudden I was old enough, and we sat and smoked a few cigarettes while watching.
