Horribly boring and implausible.Alas Allah, what happened to you Rasoulof? Lamentable soap opera, 99 percent melodramatic and predictable! Credible only for Bambi and Nemo. Youthful rebellion is one thing, but the profile of Iman’s daughters corresponds to that of a lumpen family, and not a middle-class cradle. a financially well-off woman whose father is a candidate for judge. That is to say, they were not rich before Tehran but they did not share a loaf of bread between the four of them to eat. Why would there be that level of disobedience and lack of respect for the father, having a mother, Najme, self-sacrificing to the point of Manichaeism? It is true that this is an absent father with the level of secrecy of a country like Iran, it is also true that the protest of women and their causes is genuine and more than fair, but it is not about 5-year-old girls, therefore, the eldest daughter, Rezvan, is not a heroine, she is rather the personality of a daughter who challenges a stepfather, or a natural father who has abused her. But neither one nor the other is the case here, for the sheer effervescence of women’s rights should we expect such animosity? Iman’s character is selfish as a father and husband, but given the circumstances of Iran, his family, especially the wife, should have seen it coming in that, in a country plagued by Human Rights violations, it is natural to anticipate that high levels will only be reached by signing sentences and condemnations – blindly – without investigating.

Ergo, it was a matter of time before the relatives of those unjustly sentenced sought to settle scores, such as the car scene and the chase. The only valuable and critical thing is the scene in which he subjects the 3 women, his wife and two daughters to an interrogation by the accused in order to save his dirty job. That was humiliating and rude from the father towards his family and shows what I said, selfishness which, by the way, we could discuss why it didn’t bother them so much when they agreed to go to the capital to have their own bedroom. The film focuses for the umpteenth time on a topic that has been used for many years about abusive discrimination regarding women’s opinions and rights socially but also within the family. And finally the outcome is easy because the complexity it covers did not refer to the issue of the gun – which in fact had stolen one of them and hidden in the car – but to the crisis of current social and family values ​​to get rid of theocratic and political dogma. If this was Rasoulof’s idea of ​​expressing his libertarian political ideas through patriarchal contestation and confrontation, the premise is poor; If the idea was to put religious machismo and its anachronism back on the palette for the concerns of today’s women, the premise was already tired after being taken to the streets since the movements of ’68. Waste of time.