Not a bad movie, yet it has flaws here and there with some gaps.
As a thriller movie, to be honest I was expecting it to have more tension; like serious ones, but every scene that has real potentials and tries to give you the sense, it fails unexpectedly. The killer doesn't give the sense of being a serial killer!
He was a religious psycho having a family and normal life by days but by nights, he was a brutal murderer. Yet in the movie(at crime scenes)he acts a bit stupid, naïve and anxious! As I mentioned above, in times that you expect some real thriller, the movie doesn't propose a real tension and fear from the killer and it folds it so quickly and raw... good potentials are wasted this way.
One flaw was the depiction of society over the crime! It's literally over exaggerated! It's one sided, cause the movie doesn't show normal people's reaction at all, when the news was spread out! Only one journalist with a doubtful coward friend are considered bright minded who are the only people who got brains to think and feelings towards victims! It's limited to few individuals! While then it tries to show local people loved the killer as a hero! This gives a wrong depiction of the society as a dump, brainless wild one! We're not like that, normal People don't support a serial killer.
It would have been more real if there'd be balanced portrayal of reality, specially when it's inspired by true story.
But anyway, generally speaking, it's not a bad movie. The regime advocates try to say it's awful, it's insult, blah blah blah! Don't listen to them, they used to talk nonsense for their entire life; yet on the other hand don't get fooled by depictions of Iranians living in a horrific realm of brainless zambies who clap for killers with men mostly dumps being stalkers, abusers and womanizers who have imprisoned all women!! It's not true.
As a thriller movie, to be honest I was expecting it to have more tension; like serious ones, but every scene that has real potentials and tries to give you the sense, it fails unexpectedly. The killer doesn't give the sense of being a serial killer!
He was a religious psycho having a family and normal life by days but by nights, he was a brutal murderer. Yet in the movie(at crime scenes)he acts a bit stupid, naïve and anxious! As I mentioned above, in times that you expect some real thriller, the movie doesn't propose a real tension and fear from the killer and it folds it so quickly and raw... good potentials are wasted this way.
One flaw was the depiction of society over the crime! It's literally over exaggerated! It's one sided, cause the movie doesn't show normal people's reaction at all, when the news was spread out! Only one journalist with a doubtful coward friend are considered bright minded who are the only people who got brains to think and feelings towards victims! It's limited to few individuals! While then it tries to show local people loved the killer as a hero! This gives a wrong depiction of the society as a dump, brainless wild one! We're not like that, normal People don't support a serial killer.
It would have been more real if there'd be balanced portrayal of reality, specially when it's inspired by true story.
But anyway, generally speaking, it's not a bad movie. The regime advocates try to say it's awful, it's insult, blah blah blah! Don't listen to them, they used to talk nonsense for their entire life; yet on the other hand don't get fooled by depictions of Iranians living in a horrific realm of brainless zambies who clap for killers with men mostly dumps being stalkers, abusers and womanizers who have imprisoned all women!! It's not true.