About the movie “Colonel Soraya”; The saga of Sisyphus

Charso Press: “Colonel Soraya” is a movie that if we read its opening text and get to know its opening minutes, and of course we are aware of the issue of the group of hypocrites and members of Darband in it, we have read it to the bottom of the line. That is, we are no longer waiting for a classified ending, nor are we waiting for dramatic turning points, and we only see the efforts of a woman, who, like Sisyphus, observes a single body’s effort to make the model of unity in the same multiplicity.

Considering this paradigm, “Colonel Soraya” is a noble and respectable film that does not want to make heroes. It is clear that it is a documentary film. It follows the realist logic and does not shy away from criticizing its own forces. Of course, it does not seek to purify, it is a kind of historical documentation that seeks to describe an organizational behavior rather than being focused on an individual.

The important point of this case is that the film conveys good knowledge and information to the audience without entering into the group of hypocrites, the main burden of this knowledge is not transmitted through dialogue, which is the easiest way possible, but through the sub-plots of the film. They are responsible for this information transfer, this initiative makes the movie Leili Aaj stand at the right point of narration and while being faithful to the documentary, it includes the requirements of a structured and active script.

One point about the composition of the characters in the story is that the audience does not get to know much about the other characters except for Soraya, the ground for introducing the traitorous girl in the insider camp is not established, as well as one can get some impressions of the relationship between the masked fugitive woman and the girl. Traitor realized that the film does not directly refer to any of these perceptions.

This happened in a situation where the main focus of the story is on Soraya, and although the main burden of the drama is also on this character, it must be accepted that the other characters are left alone, as well as when some people And the Iraqis suspect that this doubt is suffocated in the bud and because it does not create suspense, it becomes one of the ambiguous points of the story until the end, which creates confusion for the audience in every event.

The pace of the film is reasonable and good, the density of the story is high, and an attempt has been made to portray the behavior of the group towards those who are waiting for their children at a suitable time, and after the end of the film, the audience will gain a good knowledge in this regard, which according to Being neglected doubles the sweetness of this information.

Colonel Soraya movie

The film has a great characteristic, and that is the spirit of heroism, which is gradually added to Soraya. This heroism does not have much dramatic weight, it is subject to the innovative actions of the character. The injected character that causes the audience to accept that none of the members of the group is as worthy as Soraya to lead that stream. This component is transferred to the audience in a drop-by-drop manner so that the process of raising a hero can follow its professional and correct cinematic path.

“Colonel Soraya” is one of the recent works centered on a female protagonist in Iranian cinema. A film that will remain in people’s minds because there was no dramatic attempt to enrich this character, and it will be referred to as a noble and Sisyphean effort. This title is the historical signature of a film that unassumingly took a step in the path of narrating this event.

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