Monday, January 24, 2011

No one Knows about Persian Cats


Episode I:

"Fantastic,Awesome...what a great movie it was..."
This is the first reaction of you after watching this movie...Maybe some say that, this movie is...just a documentary about Iranian Modern Genre's musicians, but no!

Ghobadi once more has chosen an excellent idea.The idea is about Tehran's nowadays culture, poverty, dictatorship, paying no attention to talents and blah blah blah, and to reach his goal, he chooses language of music. because everyone in this world has a sense of music and can connect with music. Ghobadi goes through different genres of music by chasing two friends named Negar and Ashkan who want to go to England and create a band. they search for partners using the knowledge of a guy named Nader, he is a man who does anything, goes anywhere and talks to anybody to reach his goal.
Ghobadi uses the nature of documentary movies to affect on peoples thaught about the conditions of Iran. in the first hours after you watch the movie, you think that what you have watched is the reality itself, and Ghobadi has made a successful work and then here comes next...

Episode II:

You search the people who played the tracks in the movie...
First of all, Nader who sings in Folklore Genre, and the results are outstanding.
He is a superstar in Iran's cinema, a perfect actor and singer, despite of his appearance in the movie with his band called Darkoob.
then you search the metal band Nik Ayin... and see that they are not actually a farm players!
they are real artists and have a real band.
wow! you were mistaken by the screen!
you search Hichkas, the rapper of the movie and see that he has his album published. Although it is underground but has great reputation among Iranian Youth community.

then it is you to judge, what is the intention of the director to make such a movie?
He uses everything to just show the trash side of Tehran and Iran.
He doesn't pay attention to the brightness. at the end you can't get inspired by what you just watched...you just stand and feel pity for Iran.

On and on...the Execution of this project is awesome.Ghobadi made all his effort to reach his project to the peak.and he has been succeeded but after the first shock...It is up on the watcher to decide which side he is?
Persian Cats Or ...!