Aired movie under spotlight – ‘Queen’

‘Queen’, aired a few weeks ago, is a movie much reviewed by Iranian critics. We thought you deserve a share in the following few installments. Here is the first part.

The 8-year imposed war by US-backed dictator Saddam against the revolutionary Iranian nation, affected the people to a great extent.

It was a demanding one with a huge toll (around three hundred thousand). But all in all, it left a heritage. Although films that depict war with all the action scenes showing scenes of fight and battle, excess excitement, and so on and so forth, would guarantee any film in the genre would sell, but those flicks that take a different perspective on war also grabbed the audience and critics’ attention, as the latter group puts it.

Critic 1 – Omid Askari (part b):

It was noted in the previous installment that Siavash is a lover who’s not yet involved in war and killing, in the battlefield. Now let’s continue.

You can see that in his manners when confronting the Iraqi invaders who have killed his comrades, he’s not schizophrenic. How can talking to the remains of a martyr (of which a few bones is remained) be interpreted as such?

Siavash is introverted and reticent. He’s the kind of person who doesn’t nag about his pain. He’s got a free mind; an ordinary person among others in his own decade.

The developed character, being so splendid and everlasting, is seen in the personality of other people in the story, too. They’re all real men, who step out of the screen and talk, acting perfectly.

Despite all the discrepancies, the type of acting they offer very well harmonizes among the cast. No one plays foul.

The scene, in which a blast wave turns Siavash’s comrade mad, is one of the best depictions and cases of acting over the contemporary history of Iran’s cinema.

MF/MG