'Holy Spider': killing whores in the name of morality

This movie is directed by an Iranian gentleman named Ali Abbasi.

He lives in Denmark.

The production is also from there.

It has been shot in Jordan.

It would be a utopia if the ayatollahs had allowed him to shoot it in Iran.

Neither can we find poetic, costumbrist and social references that characterize the cinema that is made in this country.

vocation .

European or American.

His narrative style entertains and what he tells is terrifying.

Above all, because it is not a fiction.

What counts actually happened.

In 2001 and in the holy city of Mashhdad, a symbol of supreme religiosity.

In it, a guy who was traveling on a motorcycle killed 16 women, strangling them with the handkerchiefs they were wearing, without there being rape or particularly macabre rituals.

He killed them for being whores and drug addicts, all of them very laid-back, seeking survival in the darkest and most sordid corners of the city.

This stubborn and selective killer had no sense of guilt.

He considered himself a vigilante, an exterminator of evil, represented by impious fornicators.

He murdered in the name of morality, of religion, with the intention of ending sin.

How scary religions.

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Tsar Amir-Ebrahimi, from soap opera star in Iran to exile for a sex video and an award at Cannes

Unlike so many memorable movies, including

and

two masterpieces signed by David Fincher, here they show us the butcher's face from the beginning, the mystery of his identity is not delayed.

There is nothing fascinating about the turkey.

He is a model husband and father, except for a few little outbursts that show that something is seriously wrong in his troubled head.

The most terrible thing is that popular opinion justifies or exalts his crimes, Jack the Persian Ripper is enthroned in the streets as the necessary and long-awaited social redeemer.

And the government, the police and the judiciary made a mess about how to deal with it.

She will be a very uncomfortable journalist, who asks for respect for her job and her dangerous condition as a woman, the one who insists on hunting down that popular psychopath who murders thinking of the Most High.

holy spider

offers unpublished images in film plots that talk about life in Iran.

Things as natural as people getting dressed and undressed, some women make up their eyes and lips.

There is even a couple fucking.

I am clear that this film will not be able to be shown there.

The vision he offers of that country is consequently bleak.

And those who oppose fanaticism have it very raw.

With the danger not only of being locked up, but of being sentenced to death for spurious reasons.

And women have it very bad.

They lead protests in which their existence is at stake.

A lady was killed in a police station.

Her terrorist offense, and hence her withering punishment, was that she was wearing the hijab badly.

It is amazing that such barbarism can happen.

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Actress Zar Amir-Ebrahimi, who stars in

and that he won the award for best performance at the Cannes festival, is one of the publicity claims of this film.

It's not a stunning performance, but it does ring true.

The most disturbing thing about this acceptable film is that it does not obey the feverish imagination of a screenwriter, but rather what it narrates was real.

holy spider

Director:

Ali Abbasi.

Cast:

Tsar Amir-Ebrahimi, Mehdi Bajestani, Arash Ashtiani, Forouzan Jamshidnejad, Sina Parvaneh.

Genre:

Denmark, 2002.

Duration:

116 minutes.

Release date: January 13.

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