Although Ali Abbasi’s Holy Spider was made before the wave of protests in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini after she was detained by the country’s morality police, there’s no doubt it has gained extra resonance as a result. It’s also worth noting, however, that one of the film’s tacit assertions - that police are much less interested in tracking down murderers if the victim is a street worker - is something that is not particular to Iran. In Britain, for example, you need only look at the Yorkshire Ripper case, where police only started to really take things seriously after, in their words “innocent young girls” and not just sex workers were murdered.
Abbasi draws on the real-life case of serial killer Saeed Hanaei - previously outlined in Mahiar Bahari’s documentary And Along Came A Spider and fictionalised in Ebrahim Irajzad’s...
Abbasi draws on the real-life case of serial killer Saeed Hanaei - previously outlined in Mahiar Bahari’s documentary And Along Came A Spider and fictionalised in Ebrahim Irajzad’s...
- 1/8/2023
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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