Country: Iran
Directed by Masoud Kimiai
I can't have a really valid idea about the quality of the film, as is not any English version available and 'The deers' is heavily depended on the dialogues. However, collecting as much informations I could, I followed easily the plot and I managed to appreciate fully a movie that is considered as a landmark in the history of Iranian cinema. At first 'The deers' using popular codes of narration and a touching story of drug addiction and male friendship to attract the audiences, seems as a movie that is more or less ordinary. However , in reality, is a covered revolutionary political film, full of symbolisms , that brings to the light the social injustice and the need for resistance to the state violence , depicting vividly the poverty and the despair of an ineducated lower class who ,instead to react, falls to the apathy. Even butchered by the censors of the post Islamic revolution government the message of the film it was that clear and strong that even simple spectators back then got it instantly. In addition the movie passed to the social memory as the film that was screened when Fanatic Islamists arsonists set a fire to a movie theater in the city of Abadan on 1978 causing the death of around 400 people
You can watch the full movie here without subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NttKiQCSp34
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