An Overview of “The Loser Man” by Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian / Detective Far Away
The farther the loser goes, the closer he gets to the abyss. Little by little, it becomes clear that nothing more important than this anti-structural hero is important to the story. Bezak and Dozak are all supposed to be characters who bear no resemblance to an Iranian workshop / police, but have been captured by a filmmaker. The astonishment of becoming Colonel Khosravi’s character has burned all the other characters that were supposed to be played.
Theater News Base: Mahdavian is still at work. It seems that the space, the team and the situation are astonished. This time, with an awkward patch, with the police / workshop, as if away from a foreign story, he came to Mahdavian’s new film and said, “The loser man.”» Is named.
The story tells us from the beginning that we are going to face a systematic and deep-rooted corruption, like a work wound, with the difference that we have a hero in the loser man. Colonel Khosravi, an experienced and tired policeman who has a crisis in his family relations, reminds us of the messy workshop of “Manasmeh” by “Michael Mann”. Just as he wants to be weird and just as smart and insightful.
“Like” Hollywood examples, we are supposed to face an anti-structural workshop that has no concessions to reach the truth, and of course mercy. Irregular and hasty filming of Mahdists brings the work closer to Bollywood cinema; The same famous Bollywood genre that wants good police to fight government and systemic corruption.
It is the result of an amalgam of Hollywood and Bollywood that has neither the charms of Bollywood action nor the strong and paid Hollywood characters, and everything remains the same. There seem to be two main reasons why the story of the loser man did not take shape.
First of all, neither the anti-structural hero is formed, nor the structure, nor, consequently, the relationship between this hero and the structure. The farther the loser goes, the closer he gets to the abyss. Little by little, it becomes clear that nothing more important than this anti-structural hero is important to the story. Bezak and Dozak are all supposed to be characters who bear no resemblance to an Iranian workshop / police, but have been captured by a filmmaker. The astonishment of becoming Colonel Khosravi’s character has burned all the other characters that were supposed to be played. None of them even become a brigade. Just the clichés we see in the noir genre; The femme fatale, the cowardly comrade, the wandering and so-called housewife, the good Carnabald police, the organized crime network, and the family members we see are all alone, though the loser is by no means a noir.
The audience can not approach any of these characters, because the filmmaker has no worries about presenting any character other than his own hero or protagonist. He even forgot that everything is defined by his anti-hero, especially the hero who appears in the anti-hero mirror. Who is the loser anti-hero at all? The cliché of Aghazadeh “Doctor Larestani”‘s rhetoric, which is no longer obsessed with exaggeration; At a time when lawyers and ministers from all walks of life have given up their previous apologies and openly expressed their sympathy, and many officials are either in prison or under investigation for corruption, the loser is supposed to have something left over for the audience or talk. Bold to offer? I wish the same stereotype had been formed, and at least the Mahdists would not have reduced the head of the huge and deep-rooted monster of corruption to the lust and lust of a person.
This objection was also the most important weakness of the work wound, that it failed to show us a structure and a situation, a situation in which, although ugly people are its agents, not all of them. When filmmaking in 15 episodes has not been able to show us the situation, it is unwise to expect such a thing in two hours.
The other big weakness of the loser from which he was hit is the team that did not break the previous records. Especially acting and filming that have no defined identity for this work. Javad Ezzati is the patchwork of this role; Neither the right age has this role nor its mimicry and physique. Her makeup and gait are often reminiscent of “Baba Eti” in bitter coffee. Sometimes «Maliki »we see the remnants of a work wound in him; Like the sequence of imprisonment in the bathroom, the necessity of which is not known at all. The other characters are so free that even the strongest actors were unlikely to be able to offer anything in this situation.. Worst of all, “Rasoul” is played by Babak Karimi, who has no special function for the story, but has come to warn the audience that we – Rasoul and his friends – even know what you need! With all this, the loser will probably succeed at the box office. It has good marketing capabilities and will maneuver them to get the audience to the box office. Mahdavian has also established himself in his filmmaking career, and he should probably not be expected to make “Standing in the Dust” anymore..
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