Eye food So, you want to see a movie where you stop not only taking drugs, but also selling them? So says director Said Rustai, who studied the subject extremely deeply before shooting. In his first full-length work, Life and a Day, we were shown an inside look at the drug trade from a small dealer family, and it was like the tragedy of a small world of little people. In "Dependents" the camera seems to rise higher and higher from the narrow city streets, hiding behind the same gray fences exactly the house, either under the lid of the TV, or in an even more secluded place is stored dope for hundreds of people in the area.
The camera rises above and covers a drug village in a wasteland full of adults, children and the elderly, to give even an approximate sense of the magnitude of the disaster – 6.5 million drug addicts. The camera rises even higher and climbs into the penthouse of the person behind the chain of dealers – it delves into his home, his family, his perception of the world and finds what he cherishes and loves. This is not a classic action path from the raid to the search for a large fish that must be caught and planted / eliminated necessarily in front of the credits themselves. This is an attempt to understand the psychology of someone who is suffering thousands, remove his robe and lower him to the level of the first arrest in life, when you are a toy in the hands of almost every person in a uniform, and the ground under your feet floats, and you sometimes cry and beg the judge for something.
He will reminisce about a childhood similar to that of his victims’ children – the death of his brother from lack of money, a tiny dilapidated apartment and a family of 11. And then he had everything, but he didn't stop. Why? “My eyes are not full,” he replies, betraying the incredible weakness of a man with greedy eyes that were ready to burst there, on the top of the world, where evergreen trees grow above the night lights and water splashes.
Peiman Moadi as police officer Samad in the film is an unstoppable bulldozer, ready to equal the letter of the law to anyone, from a petty criminal to a millionaire or even his partner. This is another theme of the picture: the nuances of the justice system, the place of morality and the human factor in it, the camera from Said Rustai climbed into the corridors of the courts. But it imprinted something else in her memory – a pair of greedy eyes, closed on the doomsday with those whose eyes had already gone out – dozens of people with half-closed, invisible or completely closed eyes. As he stared at the world for their money, their eyes slowly closed with hopelessness, with fear of seeing the poverty of their own children, with shame to return home.
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