What time is it in your world is the first feature film of Safi Yazdanian, a film critic and translator A film that should be considered a step forward for an educated critic who is now in the position of a filmmaker, but unfortunately, such an event does not happen, on the contrary, this film has distanced Safi Yazdanian from us and placed him in the field of Filmmaking disappoints us.
In Iran, most critics, despite their professional experience in the medium of criticism, sometimes dare themselves and step into the field of filmmaking to create a cinematic work with their theoretical knowledge, but unfortunately, most of the time, this is a major failure. will be faced and other views on that critic will change and even damage will be done to his critical calling. Yazdanian’s first feature film has suffered such a loss and its badness weighs heavily on the name of its creator. A film that I wish was not made by a critic and it was written by a young and inexperienced filmmaker, not at the expense of an inevitable and empty experience for a critic.
What time is it in your world can be considered as the continuation of the movie Prat and Ali Musafa. That is, interestingly, the film has common points with that work in its sloppiness and sloppiness, as if it is its second version. That is, exactly with the same actors (Ali Musafa and Leila Hatami) and with the same acts and being naked in the script. Now, if we ignore the transfer of the atmosphere and fake characters of the movie “The Last Step” to Safi Yazdanian’s movie and assume that it was a coincidence, we have to get to the incoherent and wandering story in your world….
The film begins when Goli returns from Paris to the city of Rasht, which was his hometown, and wants to play nostalgia in the atmosphere of his childhood home, that is, to bring out the past in order to get some sense of his inner alienation (which is also a joke). ) to be satisfied with their house, belongings, and wealth. But in the meantime, a half-crazy boy, Farhad, has entered her life with stupid acts to let her know that he has been in love with her for many years and accompany her in the nostalgia of Goli Khanum’s games, so that she doesn’t end up in her silence again. Of course, it should be known that the presence of the girl has no effect on Farhad’s stupid mood.
Farhad and Goli are the two central characters of the film, so to speak, the story is supposed to revolve around these two. Farhad is an intellectual person who looks like an idiot who has lived his daily life without any principles and plans and to get rid of time and circumstances, he turns to be stupid and spends all his moments beating the drum in a ridiculous way. And sometimes it spends disgustingly. Such a character also existed in the movie “The Last Step” starring Ali Musafa himself, who was a kind of complement to his weak and miserable wife. But Farhad’s character in the film is drawn in a very presumptive and cartoonish manner, and his irrelevant acts and dialogues do not create an atmosphere or a dramatic situation but create a ridiculous situation (not absurd in the sense of absurdity) that completely solves this problem. It originates from within the script. In other words, the screenplay has no character and no dramatic tension, but it is a cut of cardboard and fake situations that create a series of acts without mise-en-scène and sometimes television in the heart of the work, and its effect is as endless as its stories. fake
Another problem of the film is that in the course of the story, the viewer hears names one after the other whose endings are so-and-so, names like: Hamid, Ali, and Antoine, which remain only the same name for the audience and as if for the filmmaker. It is not important to save the viewer from confusion, because performing a few monologues is enough for the viewer to assume that they were childhood friends, studied at the same university, are related to each other, and… That means we have to guess during the movie and it doesn’t really matter if the characters are introduced or not.
Even this ambiguity is going on about the two main characters of the film. For example, who is this Farhad? Is it related to flowers? What is his job? Is he a French teacher, or a servant, or is he really a vagrant? Nothing is known, even his love is a caricature flower and his love is extremely vulgar and ridiculous. Or on the other hand, how can you analyze a goal? Why did he leave his mother in the past years and go to Paris and now he returns to his city with a chronic depression like a fugitive, or what do those suspicious phone calls mean? Is Antoine her husband? Or his fiancee? None of these topics are clear and it’s as if we don’t have a story at all, but a few short stories about a few days in the life of a nostalgic girl and her acquaintance with a charming man, make up the whole work.
In last words, what time is it in your world? It is a wandering and surprising film, a film that has no story and no character and is more like a section of a multi-part series, that is, as if we are watching the fifth part of a series, and the characters And we know their past from the previous episodes and their actions are meaningful to us. In a film, the characters must be introduced so that their actions can find meaning in the form, that is, the act of a character is dependent on the analysis of the character, and if such a procedure is not adopted, the result of a work like this film will be better and worse.