The film is very simple in structure --10 same shots in one car. It contains 10 different conversations of son and mother, old lady praying everyday, and women who just broke up etc. They all portray women’s predication in Iran. The film is like a stream flowing quietly and slowly. The audience is like following the stream and finally come to the ocean. At first I feel it is boring, but I in the end I realize that the power of the film is not like the fast-paced and straightforward American film trailers, but like drinking wine sip by sip and finally get drunk. In the end, I finally get Kiarostami, especially when the woman who appeared previously and cried for the end up of the relationship with her boyfriend ultimately cut her hair to start a new life. Kiarostami’s minimal, quiet and slow storytelling is very distinctive.
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