Fajr Film Festival A look at the movie “Captain”; Cancer is not the end of life!

Fars News Agency, Cinema Group, Nafisa Tarabande: Cancer has always been a painful word for mankind, a word that reminds us of a one-sided fight with a giant without horns and a tail that takes root in the whole being every moment and no weapon works against it except hope. Cancer disease and facing it due to its dramatic burden has been the basis of making many movies and TV series, works that narrate the depth of pain and suffering that these patients and their families endure, and this suffering is doubled when the cancer patient is a child. Be pure and innocent.

The movie “Captain”, the second film by Mohammad Hamzaei, deals with this disease with a new look. In “Captain”, instead of depicting a bitter and painful atmosphere, we witness a happy and childlike geography where hope and love for life ripples throughout it. The characters of the film are innocent and pure angels whose mischief and laughter bring smiles to the audience instead of tears and sighs.

* Children who are not like today’s children

From the very opening scene where Jesus introduces himself, we understand from his tone that we are dealing with a different boy: “They call me Jesus, I will do whatever I want.” A boy who is like a hospital man and like a compassionate brother who supports his little brothers and sisters; Dadashi and Abji are the constant words of Jesus.

With the little information he gives about Isa’s life, such as the fact that he lost his mother and his father sometimes goes to work at night, the filmmaker wants to show a self-made and strong character of him, a strong character and at the same time a gentleman who at the end puts the happiness of his friends before his own. He prefers and the real captain is undoubtedly Jesus himself, but the fact is that the tone and manner of speaking and relying on the words of Jesus and even that Abadani boy are not very suitable for their age and the current era and time, and most of the audience remembers the fists before It turns upside down. For this reason, the audience, especially children and teenagers, cannot communicate much with this type of literature and even understand the meaning of some of their terms.

Also, the football hero that Jesus is attached to, Karim Bagheri, is not known to today’s teenagers, and it would have been better for the filmmaker to have used a younger soccer player who is at least still playing, so that he is known to today’s teenagers. It seems that the filmmaker was looking for a personal tribute to Karim Bagheri!

*A movie about children, not for them

Although the main characters of “Captain” are children, but Captain is a movie for adults, Karamet, played by Pejman Bazghi, came to remind parents that at any time, even a difficult disease like cancer, they should allow children to be children; Let’s remember the sequence where Mrs. Niazi explains the issue of her son’s cancer and the regret she still has in her heart, telling Karamet that illness is a part of these children’s lives, not all of them, and these children should be children and follow their dreams.

Dignity – the father of Jesus – is a symbol of a hard-working father who, on the one hand, endures the pain of separation from his wife, and on the other hand, his liver is melting in front of his eyes. Contrary to the cold and serious appearance of Karamat, he has an emotional and sensitive personality, but because many parents have not learned how to properly express their feelings and communicate with their teenagers, it seems that only when he separates from his true personality and falls into the form of a clown can he be close to Jesus. and even make his dreams come true.

*last word

In the end, it must be said that “Captain” is a noble and respectable film that shows a different picture of this difficult disease and puts tears and smiles on the lips of the audience. An impressive film that tells the audience that cancer is not the end of life with a simple but hopeful and clear story, and that when a person dies, he loses his hope and spirit.

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