A look at the “Mardab” series; A mysterious and successful narrative in attracting the audience

Fars News Agency – Department of Art and Media: Barzo Niknejad, who is a familiar name to the TV audience, after making two comedy series for Iran 2 and Aftabparast for the home show network, in his latest experience, he has started to make a social series called “Mardab”.

“Swamp”, like the movie “Amphibian”, is a new experience in the career of this slow-moving filmmaker and has a serious atmosphere. “Amphibia” was an amalgamation of various social harms; From runaway girls to illegal abortions, from usury and humiliation to theft and betrayal, issues that none of them are detailed in the script and are pinned to the film only to make the story more bitter, but “Mardab” despite the serious and somewhat criminal atmosphere and The mystery itself is not as black and bitter as “Amphibia”.

The attractive characters of the story are the secret of the success of the series

“Mardab” had a good start and continued to attract the audience by maintaining the right rhythm and narration, a reasonable and standard film that is not in this blunder of home show series that either fall into the trap of obscenity and sexual jokes or are very black and Terkh, using a suspenseful and green geographical script, satisfied the audience.

While trying not to be contaminated by story-telling stereotypes about social harms and in other words not exaggerating corruption and social and economic wrongs, “Mardab” depicted new characters and different relationships of the characters. The most important and charismatic character of “Mardab” is undoubtedly Shakib, played by Amir Jafari. Dialogues that, while being heavy, provide good facts of the story to the audience.

A character who, while being ruthless to achieve his goal, knows emotional relationships such as love for his wife and even love for his horse, and this makes him a multifaceted and interesting character and makes his reactions in different situations unpredictable for the audience. Sometimes it is surprising. The way he interacts with Kayvan and Kohyar, who are his adopted children, is interesting. Shakib is interested in these two brothers, but he is ready to prey on them to achieve his goals. The ambiguity of Saba’s relationship with Shakib is also one of the attractions of the story, which is well It will be decoded at the right time.

The sibling relationship between the characters of Iraj and Afaq is one of these new and pristine relationships. The pleasant intimacy of these brothers and sisters and the change of their moods together means the boldness and vigilance of Afaq and the fear and caution of Iraj is interesting for the audience. The simple and witty and at the same time timid and timid character of Iraj made him an interesting character who is attractive to the audience with his northern accent, especially because the filmmaker managed to reduce the poison of the story with Iraj’s humor in various and sensitive situations and put a faint smile on the audience’s face. sit down

From the other side, their house is literally built on the water, and the filmmaker cleverly chose this place to make an interesting allusion to their distant and unattainable dreams that these two risk to reach, a house without a door and a body on the marsh. As if its inhabitants are not tied to any strings.

The small space of their cottage is free of any modern equipment, the equipment is arranged neatly and cleanly in the decor shelves and follows a certain order, and this management of the space reminds the audience of Afaq’s intelligent and thoughtful character. Sadra, played by Hamed Kamili, is fresh and far from the usual stereotypes. Sadra’s cooperation with the police and his being an undercover agent are among the interesting surprises of the story that shock the audience.

“Mardab” is a narrative of the elders’ game with the infantry

Some media believe: “Mardab is a new story of the game between the tall and the dwarfs on the smooth road.” The game of elders with game makers and infantry, each of whom are used as pawns of this game out of desperation, until they lose and are removed from the game as burnt pawns. Soldier beat soldier. The horses will sneer and the elephants will be fooled by their awe.

What we see in the frame of “Mardab” are professional images of a professional director. The movements of the camera convey a feeling to the audience, and conveying the terror present in some scenes to the audience is one of the strengths of the series. “Mardab” gives several shocks to the audience during the series and usually does this at the end of each episode.

However, “Mardab” also has weak points and some events of the story do not have narrative logic, such as why the police in the interrogation table know with certainty that Saba, who has a history and has just been released from prison, is deceived and innocent, or why As a representative of a professional criminal group, Vida goes with a screaming red car to secretly monitor the preparations of the operation and no one notices his presence. The reaction of the police after the horrible crime in the transaction of exchanging precious stones is also very superficial and passive, and they naively do not even notice the contradictory statements of Afaq and Iraj during the interrogation and easily let them go.

In the end, it must be said that “Mardab” has been able to tell a straightforward story without many flashbacks and confusing the audience, but at the same time it is inflamed and enigmatic and keeps the audience with him until watching the last episode.

Author: Nafiseh Tarabande

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