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Hostages (2022)
As an Iranian, I did enjoy most part of this doc!
I watched it with my Brother and both of us actually enjoyed it. It had some awesome rare footage from the revolution, Iran/Iraq war, Khomeini, as well as (obviously) the hostage crisis, that i had never seen before.
Although I did miss some reprensation from the IRI, it generally exhibits a fine range of different backgrounds/experience/bias from different peope. But, of course, it IS an American documentary created mainly for an American audience, so its not surprising that the Americans are getting far more screen-time compared to the Iranians.
It do have some flaws, to which you can read below.
As "Iranian Anti-Westernism" was a big theme throughout the doc, the 1953 Coup against Mossadegh (and some of the other many atrocities the West has done against us) should've have been highlighted much more than they were. It did a great job showing how massive the anti-Imperialism sentiment was in Iran during the 70/80's, but failed to show why.
It also completely failed to mention how Khomeini kinda hijacked the revoulution, and that the people protesting wanted a democracy, NOT a theocracy/another dictaorship. There were a lots of different nuances during the revolution such as multiple leftist/marxist, nationalist and islamist movements, which the documentary did not tell us anything about.
All in all, the doc was great. Highly entertaining, while being informative and deserves praise for generally being fairly well-balanced to a timeline many people still are very emotional about.
Kød & blod (2020)
Boring and senseless movie trying to hard to portay to be suspenseful and dark
Incredibly lame movie that has an endless number of plot holes. Completely lacks idenity. Initially it seems to urge to be some kinda of "loyal 2 la familia"-type gangster movie, but they appear more as a pack of cringeworthy trailer-park gypsies..
Some good acting here and there, but none could overcome the main actress abysmal and inauthentic acting throughout the entire movie. Not for one second did her performance appeal to me nor the audience. Souless and dreadful.