Pooya Sajjadi

As a way to tell the world about the political and social state of Iran specially amidst the unrests and protests around Mahsa Amini's death it can be considered a good work but as a movie, I can't say I enjoyed it. Spoiler alerts. The movie itself is a series of unrelated mini stories, loosely stitched together. A family loving man in pursuit of justice who was soon to become a judge but had a bad "manager" who made him unwillingly sentence someone to be executed which was never mentioned again in the story. The older daughter having a friend who got shot in the eye and went home which was never mentioned again in the story. The mom carefully and obsessively looking for the lost gun in the house and not finding it. The interrogator friend who interrogated the whole family (with blindfolds!) just to come to the wrong conclusion and accuse the older daughter of stealing the gun. What made the daughter who loved her family and parents steal her dad's gun and risk him of being sentenced to years of prison? What was she trying to achieve? What was her goal? The quality deteriorates as the story progresses but don't get me started on the ending. A "Shining" inspired father who gets absolutely maniac over an obsession to the point of trying to imprison and kill all his family members, who eventually dies from falling from the roof (just to satisfy the viewers?). What happens to the family after that? The family who has to return both guns with a missing bullet and probably will all be arrested in relation to the death of their father?

Nice addictive mystery miniseries. A "Taken" sort of movie where the father tries not to bother the cops and single handedly rescue his daughter, with LOTS of holes in the story. -- Spoiler Alert -- First of all, extremely unrelated and suspicious new cop who turns out to be the protagonist's friend's daughter who is FIXATED on the pedophile teacher with no proof. I mean, how did that contribute to the story? Second, seems like sometimes the writers totally forgot about CCTVs inside the residence. How come it took multiple episodes for the main character to realize he can watch the gate's CCTV footage? Couldn't he just check it in the first episode and see that her daughter comes back that night? They had gates, guards, cameras and everything but seems like the doorman only works in the mornings and has no idea who comes and goes out of the residence. Don't they have a night guard or anything? Third, when the town's main detective kills the young boy, why is she not bothered to clean her tracks or just move the body? What was she hoping for? That someone just takes the blame and it all goes away?? I mean Sia's dad had more information about forensics. Plus they do not bother to explain why the hell was the daughter hiding for so long! What was she trying to achieve?? Why were the cops so terrible at their jobs? No one was tracking her phone or anything.