This is an unusual film of exceptional values--75 minutes long in color, with hardly any spoken dialogs. I saw this Iranian film in Farsi without English subtitles at the Early Iranian cinema retrospective on-going International Film Festival of Kerala, India. That I was watching a print without subtitles did not make a difference as there were very few lines of spoken dialogs. This is a very accessible film for any audience to enjoy--its story and values are not merely Iranian, it's universal. The film is set in rural Iran that had not tasted petro-dollar prosperity. The setting is on fringes of desert land, where water is scarce, rainfall scanty and hardly any blade of grass is green. Add to it wind and dust that buffets and whips man and animal and you can imagine plight of the people who live on the fringes of society. The film is moving tale of a young teenager returning to his village with a goat--only to find his family and villagers have moved on to escape natures vagaries and that one old man remains. He gives the goat to him and goes in search of his family. Water is scarce and well water it treated with reverence and never wasted.
克里斯蒂安·沃尔夫(本·阿弗莱克 Ben Affleck 饰)具有破解复杂难题的天赋。当一位旧识惨遭谋杀,并留下一条“去找会计师”的神秘讯息后,沃尔夫不得不开始追查此案。当他发现得用更极端手段时,沃尔夫找了他久未连络、同时是名顶尖杀手的弟弟布莱斯顿(乔·博恩瑟 Jon Bernthal 饰)合作。兄弟俩与美国财政部副局长玛莉贝丝·麦迪纳(辛希亚·阿戴-罗宾森 Cynthia Addai-Robinson 饰)联手,一起揭露这桩致命阴谋,却让他们成为冷血杀手集团的目标,这群杀手无所不用其极也要掩盖秘密。