A Man of Integrity

If I were you, I would try to get along with my neighbor. At this stage in the story, however, it is already too late for Reza to simply apologize for the beating. Even if Abbas is faking his injuries, he is not the one who will have to deal with the corrupt administrative machine after the corporation represented by Abbas poisoned his entire fish farm. Instead, this will fall to the school principal, Hadis's husband or to Sahanda, who can only think about getting an X-box. But who should he complain to? In Iran, there is an official at every step, and every one of them has to be paid to get out of way. It is Kafkaesque. Rasoulof's film takes the form of a series of meetings that test the protagonist's patience, reacting only when he is immersed up to his nose in milky water. In a situation where every act of resistance affects his family, Reza will have to bend or take the game to a higher level. Because, as his sister says-she is trying to get by on her own as a translator and to get her husband out of prison-In this country, you either oppress or you are oppressed.