The opening sequence is not recommended for heart patients.
We've seen a bunch of them, on screens, police raids and chases in the streets of metropolises around the world.
But those orchestrated by Saeed Roustayi in Tehran have little to envy the William Friedkin of
The French Connection
.
Same alloy of realism and adrenaline.
And even pessimism.
The outcome is a cul-de-sac, or rather a hole, a perfect metaphor for a society of buried alive.
Tehran Law
features a narcotics squad looking for a drug trafficker, Naser Khakzad.
At its head, Samad, played by Peyman Maadi, the actor of
A Separation
, of Asghar Farhadi.
Neither tender nor crude, pragmatic.
Slaps and threats can be effective.
We think
of Bertrand Tavernier's
L627
and his agents fighting without means against drug trafficking in a miserable Paris.
Samad and his team cast a wide net in the slums to talk about drug addicts and dealers and go back to the big guys
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