Mahi va gorbeh

Strongly recommended. If you are looking for a meaningful full movie full of symbols, this is the one.

well this movie was a complete waste of time. i don't know why it had been given so many prizes intentionally? It's boring as hell and it's not even like a horror movie.there were so much buzz about this movie that i was excited to watch it but i was bored 10 minutes in. It seems the director wanted to make a horror movie but failed to do so.it's a big problem in Iranian cinema. the directors just don't know how to make a good horror movie like Hollywood does.just following the people with a camera and blurting out nonsense dialogues won't make a movie good enough to watch.this movie didn't even followed a certain rule.it was like you are following a bunch of clueless people going around. Don't waste your time. go and watch something else.

Upon learning the story behind this particular movie, I was filled with excitement and anticipation. Unfortunately, my eagerness was short-lived after watching the movie. The storyline was completely irrelevant, with the text being random and unrelated. The plot of the movie had no clear direction and felt disjointed, with the different parts of the movie lacking any coherence. The performances by the actors felt artificial, with little to no emotion or connection between them. Overall, the movie was a huge letdown, and I highly advise against watching it if you are looking for a good storyline and well-executed performances.

Just to balance all the other over-enthusiastic reviews:

It is indeed a very well made feature, with some very clever cinematographic ideas, however it gives a two hours of very mundane viewing experience, of a couple of guys walking around the forest, having a very non-interesting conversations or sometimes telling fantastic stories, without their merit, deeper meaning or literary qualities being apparent to me. It was interesting to see Iran's modern middle-class youth, which rarely is a subject of Iranian films. However there was no character development, any kind of psychological or social commentary. One spends most of time trying to piece together the meaning of conversations that are just part of their lives, and to figure out if some point was intended by the director in any given scene, or not?

We were utterly bored, staying in the cinema only to see how the director could solve the end. The end scene is truly beautiful though!

This is an attempt to create a clumsy copy that the director couldn't made, anything used in this movie such as storyline, scripts, directing, filming, and other stuff are very clumsy, primitive and used in the wrong place and without a purpose, so if you want to waste your more than a 2 hours of your time I highly recommend you to watch it.