Hey, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab.
Dmann is one of our occasional contributors over at Coax, and the other day when we offered free tickets to BARAN at the New York Film Festival, he grabbed a pair for his sister, who is in NYC right now. She was kind enough to send us her thoughts on the film afterwards.
I just wanted to drop a quick note to say thank you to AICN for the opportunity to see Baran at the NYFF this evening. My big brother, Dmann, told me to go, and I'm glad he did. (BTW, he says to mention that I'm WAAAY cuter than he is.)
Baran is the story of an Iranian youth named Latif (Hossein Abedini). He works as the cook/gopher on a construction site. After an Afghani coworker is injured in an onsite accident, Latif loses his job to the coworker's son (Zahra Bahrami). Latif now has to work backbreaking construction, and swears revenge on the boy. Soon, however, Latif finds that the boy is actually a girl named Baran, masquerading in order to earn money for her starving family, Latif falls in love. Seeing the pain and suffering Baran and her family are going through, Latif gives up everything he has to help the one he loves, even though she's never actually spoken to him.
It was funny, heartwarming, sad, and especially in regard to the events of the past month, eye opening. I was really a little suprised at the humor and warmth of the story; all the while juxtaposed over such a cold and difficult situation, between Iranians and Afghans living in Iran. I like to think I'm fairly up to date on current events, however, I had no idea what Afghan refugees are facing, or how Iranians feel to have so many refugees flooding their country. In addition, every negative reference to Afghanistan made me wince a bit, knowing how much worse it's become in the past few weeks.
Somehow, the awful backdrop of emotions and situation made the story of Latif's heart that much sweeter.
Anyway, again, thanks so much, I really enjoyed it.
Little Sister Sam
Thanks, Sam. These free tickets that keep popping up recently here on the site have worked out well, and we hope to be able to keep doing this sort of thing with future releases.
"Moriarty" out.
