Amir Jadidi in a scene from Asghar Farhadi’s “A hero”.
UN HERO
Gender: Psycho-social investigation
Directed by Asghar Farhadi. With Amir Jadidi, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Mohsen Tanabandeh, Sarina Farhadi, Sahar Goldust, Ehsan Goodarzi
Back in Iran after the unsuccessful Spanish interlude, Asghar Farhadi finds his original inspiration by recounting the two days of leave that allow Rahim to get out of prison, where he ended up for a debt: the woman he loves brings him a purse with gold coins that would allow him to pay half the debt and thus ask for the remission of the complaint and the end of the prison.
But what seemed like a gift turns into a fortuitous discovery that Rahim decides to return: a champion of altruism? A clever self-promotional operation?
Farhadi, as always, does not want to give answers, but to delve into human behavior and so he broadens his target to television (which makes Rahim a hero), to prison managers, to the world of social media, to the guardians of public morality and to charitable associations.
By enlarging the field of action, passing from the private to the public to the “political”, The film thus knows how to return that “spinning around” of the facts that the media and social networks dispossess of their real roots to transform into something elusive and yet looming. But which cannot be ignored. And which gives us the portrait of a country ready for any compromise.
For those who want to go back to questioning human actions.
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