Still Life (1974) - Sohrab Shaheed Salles Still Life is the - TopicsExpress



          

Still Life (1974) - Sohrab Shaheed Salles Still Life is the monotonous, uneventful life of a switchman living in a remote, desolate spot. For the old man and his wife everything ends on the day he receives his retirement papers. A young switchman arrives and the old man has to move... to nowhere. This poetical and elegiac picture is regarded as one of the best works produced in Iranian cinema. Salles defends basic human values, and at the same time exposes the horrible cruelty upon which the bureaucratic system is based. All his life the old man repeats a simple job: lowering the fence on the road intersecting the railway whenever a train passes. And Sohrab presents the dull monotony of this life with an appropriate rhythm.
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 02:07:27 +0000

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