Gharibaneh

I remember watching this movie long time ago, when I was in Iran. Rarely movies touch me, in the way that this movie did. This movie by all means is not very professional by Hollywood Standards, but themewise, I can compare it with the best movies in the Hollywood. maybe it's not a good comparison, but it touched me more than Titanic did.(I was a teenager when I watched it!) The way Bozorg (I forgot the actor's real name, but he was one of the best at the time)plays in this movie, just makes your heart to go out for him. He is so real, as real as death itself. This movie portrays a unique type of love, a kind of love that you never see in the Hollywood, let me put it in better words, unique Persian love, which is more real than American Love, maybe a combination of BraveHeart(Mel Gibson) and Troy (Brad Pitt)in a sense that it is very passionate, but at the same time reserved, and not needy. I am not a sensitive guy at all, but the way Bozorg was lying in bed, waiting for Behrokh to come, whispering to himself "pas key miai?" made me...