180 Degree Rule

A teacher from Iran is about to go to a family wedding in the rural north. Her husband, already not particularly keen on the trip, has to fly off on last-minute business, and forbids her to go. She nevertheless goes, taking their young daughter along. Returning, she has to lie to her husband, with the help with her Tehran-based family.

There is a sub-plot about one of her students, and together show the status of women in Iran. But I am not keen on family secrets and lies, and really dislike the ending.

Being one of the numerous spawns and children of Farhadi's social, tense dramas, 180 Degree Rule fails in every shade and layer in which the latter succeeded. The tragedy and the events leading to it are shallow, forced and imprecise as an idea or set of ideas that fail to properly culminate the film's storyline. The acting is questionable, with the most curious casting of the male lead actor P.Jamshidi who know more about football than serious acting and whose presence is almost comedic, completely out of tune with this otherwise grave film. There are some bright moments in this film, some qualities scattered here and there, but the project as a whole is a failure.

The movie was produced in 2018, and after watching it, I got closer to the feeling that why did Pejman Jamshidi waste his time on football? The movie is well made and has a predictable ending. The director has made good plays even though he made his first feature film. However, the expression of some actors such as Azita Hajian and Sahar Dawlat Shahi is sometimes such that their voices are not heard at all. The narrative moves very slowly, but the film is well divided into two halves, and in one half the narrative takes place, and then a crisis occurs, and at the end, with the crisis, the film moves forward. The markings of the film are also not very interesting, although the existence of places such as school or a teacher's job for the first character of the film is not very clear. Overall, it is a good movie.