besides the fact that it was not historically not accurate it was pretty entertaining movie. educational material on how NOT to do a movie on a certain topic that you do not posses enough in depth knowledge on. bad sound track!! googoosh in neyshabur? probably Mr.Elton (Faroukh) Ahi wanted to show that he is a googoosh fan (and probably ending up working with diva) and the party music? it was straight up ethno-house ( something that you might hear somewhere in a café or disco in a village in Romania) i would find traditional Persian music more appropriate. but well maybe lack of skills or resources was the reason. anyways.... Messed up storyline, the characters were not even built up in the movie. lots of questions about who those people were. one example : we still don't know who the dying old man is Mansouher's father? in that case why Mansour was skipped over? by the was what I noticed was that the market in modern Persia was basically identical to the market in Khayyam's time ( except the number of people and the way they dressed themselves) but nevertheless i salute Mr. Mashayekeh for having the courage and will to do something. next time please leave icons alone or make sure you know what you are doing if you're Persians you are gonna like the movie for nostalgic values ( but go easy on the historical facts and those in depth Persian issues) and for non Persians ? consider it a Perisan king Arthur ( historically not accurate but nobody seemed to care) I won't watch it twice and i won't recommend it to any of my friends ( Persians or non Persians)
what was good about this move?? *don't read it before seeing the movie*
10 March 2007
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