A look at the movie “Shahrak” made by Ali Hazrati / drama in multi-layered levels

Theater News Base: “Shahrak”, written and directed by “Ali Hazrati”, which is in the Simorgh Soda section of the 40th Fajr Film Festival, is the story of some young actors who are rehearsing for a role in a film by a famous director.. «Navid Falahati »accepted by Saed Soheili in this test, but his presence has one condition, and that is to cut ties with his family and the outside world in order to rehearse the role. «Farhad Modaber is a building painter. It’s kind of enclosed in a town, and it only has to do with the other actors who are going to play roles in the film. Even the slightest deviation from the game and returning to the principle of his outer life will cause him and the other candidates for the role of the film to be rejected..

This film has a linear story, but it is relatively full of horror and novelty, because the lives of the characters are placed on the razor-sharp edge between the outside world and the game world, and a kind of sense of fluidity and suspension, confusion and mental and objective rupture and delusion. And it even gives the film’s audience a distinction in the world of narrative and cinema in separating the lives of the film’s characters into play and the main and external life. These characters are actually undecided on two levels and play in two ways in this film. The town, in spite of its script, has created a strange and illusory atmosphere, such as a strange dream, which forms the dramatic and narrative moments of the film. At a glance, however, Hazrati does not seem to be able to sort out this confusing and confusing narrative, leaving unanswered ambiguities. Of course, from another point of view, it can be considered that creating these narrative discontinuities and ambiguities in the separation of real actions and reactions and play and other open endings of the film is the filmmaker’s intention to create these theorems in his audience’s mind and create his intended world..

The film, in terms of content and theme, also seeks to instill points of view such as identity and human restraint; That Farhad Modaber, who is perhaps the symbol of humanity in this game, on the one hand must be patient and not deviate from his true self, and on the other hand must accept a new identity, but in the end he will not tolerate the game and will be defeated! This is where it seems that the author of this story seeks to insinuate that human beings do not have the necessary self-control to create a utopia, and Navid betrays his fiancé and drowns in the world of playing the role of Farhad and a town beyond which the utopia is a utopia. Of course, the opposite is also possible; That Farhad finds his true love in this new game and identity, and that everything he had in the past was a shadow of the truth, and now he has reached his true love, which is an angel, and wants to choose him.. In addition, another issue can be opened in this regard and it can be inferred that life under supervision, even if it is without pressure and in line with desires, is an absurd and annoying life! However, the main feature of Shahrak’s film is that its theme and theme are multi-layered and, like its story, it is on the border of different interpretations, and different interpretations can be made in this regard; Perhaps this is why Hazrati can be considered successful because he has done the right thing in creating a kind of thematic multi-layered and razor-sharp audience. In the end, it should be said that Shahrak, in addition to the acceptable quality in sound and image and storytelling and good games, is a thought-provoking, original and relatively new film whose creator seeks to create a narrative, space and a whole different world in the world. It is a cinema, but it has not been able to put it in order and has not filled many gaps in this puzzle. Perhaps this is the essence of the puzzle; A puzzle with empty houses!

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