What happens when u want to win some prizes? For sure you have to know, understand and refine what u do according to the criteria the game is based on. This is a normal routine when Iranian directors try to make a movie. They do not make films for their local audience or for the main goal of cinema industry, which is entertainment. They just want to be concerned as award-winners. // "No one knows about Persian cats" follows exactly the same procedure, giving the foreign audience the most pleasing sense: "Aaah, them ones. Look how pitiful they are, and feel the pressure the elite ones are under". Actually, I myself do not deny the pressure or the absurdness of an ideological government. But this is not the point here. In the case of "No one knows about Persian cats", I want to raise a simple question: WHERE IS CINEMA? // To make the question of this review more clear, I have to ask some other questions: "Can someone take a camera, shoot some scenes, add up some music to it and call it a film? Do we call the shots taken in a birthday party a movie? What are the ingredients that make a film?" // Using old-fashioned techniques of documentary-type shooting, and adding it to good forbidden music are the keys used to make this movie, no matter whether the picture and music match each other or not, because they just have to match the award-winning criteria. And then comes the question: is it enough? For sure not. You have to add a dramatic ending to that, which may be a suicide, or even two! Now We have the guarantee to win. // Good luck Mr. Ghobadi. Enjoy your trip!
Review of No One Knows About Persian Cats
