A look at the movie “Mahdi Situation” / When the “National Hero” is filmed, the phenomenon of the “Fortieth Festival” becomes

Fars News Agency, Cinema Group: The film “Mehdi’s Position” deals with the military life of the martyr “Mehdi Bakeri”, is a summary of a six-part miniseries directed by “Hadi Hejazifar” and produced by “Simafilm”, which is being re-produced by the “Narration Foundation”. “Conquest” was screened in the “40th Fajr Film Festival”.

In six episodes, the film “Mahdi’s Situation” deals with the life story of “Martyr Mehdi Bakeri” and his brother “Martyr Hamid Bakeri”. The story begins with Haj Mehdi’s acquaintance and marriage with his wife, and continues with the relationship between this loving couple. In the meantime, he goes to the life of his brother, Hamid Bakeri, and describes his love life with his wife. In three episodes, the camera goes to the front and the war and narrates the martyrdom of Mehdi and Hamid Bakeri, as well as the Badr and Khyber operations …

In the movie “Situation of Mehdi”, we see the audience with the image of a strong and steadfast man, who even watching “Laurel and Hardy” on TV does not make him laugh, but his timely jokes make the audience laugh and The ability of the director reveals the work as an actor. Meanwhile, “Hejazifar” had previously participated in the “38th Festival” with the film “Atabay” as the first unofficial directing experience, and this year he officially entered the “Fajr Film Festival” with this work as a director. Is. Works whose only similarity can be considered the use of “Azeri language” in the film as a whole.

One of the important themes depicted in the movie “Mahdi Situation” is the type of family relationships that, far from the erotic and sexual atmosphere, evoke a beautiful and pleasant love for the audience. Bakri’s sweet life and relationship with his wife, following the easy marriage that takes place at the beginning of the film, reduces the bitterness of his wife’s distance from her and satisfies the audience with Safia.

The film “Mahdi’s Position”, in addition to strong directing, remarkable framing and visual compositions, and fluent and strong acting of actors, lacks quantity in narrative and script. Perhaps this episodic nature of the narrative has deprived the audience of the opportunity to connect with the main character of the film and has not created the necessary drama for him, especially in the sequence of his testimony. The protagonist of the film is defined in most parts in relation to his brother that the image of his brother is not a complete image and is limited to a short sequence of mosaic in the yard and the sequence of his martyrdom. The depicted relationship between these two brothers does not show the love and affection between them. Perhaps a picture of childhood or a deeper relationship between two brothers would do the trick. Also in the final sequence and the martyrdom of Mehdi Bakri, the logic necessary for Mehdi to stay in the middle of the battle and not go back with the others is not shown and makes him more of an emotional and defeated fighter than a brave and courageous commander.

In the meantime, perhaps the biggest flaw of the movie “Mahdi Situation” can be considered as summarizing an independent dramatic work, because the characters and narratives of this work are presented in a very incomplete and concise way in the period of a movie. Each episode of the cinematic format, which is specifically a summary of a serial episode, reveals the story of the serial version in a hurried process and deprives the audience of the opportunity to understand and communicate with the work. In this work, we see an episodic narration of Mehdi Bakeri. While not all six curtains belong to “Mahdi Bakri”.

In general, the movie “Mahdi Situation” can be considered as the phenomenon of the “Fortieth Festival”. A work in the “Holy Defense Genre” sits away from the bitter and dark atmosphere of socially themed films narrating the life of one of the “national heroes”. A film that, although far from reaching the absolute perfection of filmmaking, but the courage in choosing the subject and dealing with it is something to be defended and admired.

Author: Hossein Pourghaderi

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