Parvet is angry, loud, anxious, confused and blaming. It has the look and feel of an influential work of art that doesn't follow the traditional rules of film storytelling. Of course, all rules are made to be broken and especially when they don't violate, subjugate, discriminate or abuse people and human rights. The film is already (already) a social metaphor in practice, not its events and stories. This is only and only a good thing!
But and it's a big but...
What doesn't work in the movie is close to everything else. The film does not know how to be subtle with its themes. It brings out the social grievances and the resulting personal experiences, thoughts and feelings in a big cauldron and starts to pour it down the viewer's throat with a big ladle, regardless of whether the viewer has time to chew, swallow, breathe in the permanent interval. The film doesn't seem to care whether the content of the porridge pot of injustice, inequality and discrimination splashes all over the face and breasts, but everyone gets their share.
Is this the emotional state of the film that it wants to send to its viewers, but the film seems to be shouting and screaming from the beginning, that "Do you understand now how bad we feel!" and that "You can never understand because you are in a position of power!"
The film's message is conveyed in a contradictory and angry way. Does the film try to make the viewer understand (which is always a good thing) or guilt (through which change is much more difficult than through empathy)
The message and sound of the film Parvet must also be understood when you know that the film was made as community art.
According to the work of community art activities, the artwork that is formed looks, sounds and feels like its community. It is not unusual in community art that the author(s) own feelings, thoughts and experiences can be embedded in the artwork and not channeled to be seen. It can be therapeutic on an individual-community level. At its best, community art unites, empowers and is a dialogue between actors. And when really successful, community art is able to show its unifying and even healing power to the art viewer.
But the good Parvet movie unfortunately does not create this feeling, at least not in me.
With any art, there is always the hidden danger of what the recipient thinks of the artwork. And here I am afraid, will the film arouse in its viewers empathy, solidarity, self-reflection and desired change or something else? I myself lean towards the latter and I am truly sorry that such an important film made me feel that way.
Topic: 1 star Authors' voice and a chance for you: 2 stars.
Execution - 7. An important subject and an important film, but the execution does not work.
