THE PAST: CUNNING BUREAUCRACY BY PRADIP BISWAS, THE INDIAN - TopicsExpress

THE PAST: CUNNING BUREAUCRACY BY PRADIP BISWAS, THE INDIAN EXPRESS NEWSPAPERS, INDIA 44TH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF INDIA (IFFI) The Iranian master-filmmaker Asghar Farhadi is famous for making films social taboos, embargo and stings of bureaucracy on common live of people. His new film The Past deals with social mores as to how bureaucracy impinges on peoples private lives, nooks and corners of privacy and the responsibilities inherent with caring for dependents. Some Western critic think that these are the themes that could have easily boiled down to soap opera had they not been handled so subtly and with social concerns. Farhadi is said to be a master storyteller who exactly understands how to seize implications of modern urban life and communicate moods, emotions and motives with calculated economy. In his attempt to open the wounds of souls, he delves inside his characters without the allowing the audience ever feeling manipulated. The plot looks a little complicated as it handles a lot of characters of many hues. His focus is pinned on even-handed tackling keeping the ballast of the integrity of plot. He is for sharing his sympathies with the three characters at the centre of this story of fractured and fragile relationships, looking tragic in all sense of the term. Thus while watching the film, lowly we learn more about what has brought these people to this flash point and the pivotal reason for Lucies aggressive attitude towards her mothers new relationship. It is noticed The Past falls short of the dramatic anticipation miles away from his film A Separation. However, The Past , rich in its content and form, still packs plenty of punches, due to a uniformly excellent cast and Farhadis intrinsic attention to detail. In its progression, a little wordy, he prefers a more realistic approach to his characters and their situations. The Past is shown at IFFI, India and a huge hit at last years Melbourne Film Festival, placing second in the MIFF Peoples Choice Awards. In other-words The Past is a sober work and has an absorbing quality rare in films of others.

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