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Features • PAL In Theaters : 2001 |
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Raye makhfi description This gentle, low-key comedy follows a female civil servant of an Islamic country (presumably Iran, but specifics aren't given) as she travels around a sparsely populated island, trying to get the inhabitants to vote on election day. Her efforts are both helped and hindered by the reluctant soldier who has been assigned to accompany her--but far more significant hurdles are language barriers, deep-seated gender prejudices, and mechanical breakdowns. The civil servant struggles to maintain her faith in democratic processes in the face of indifference, antagonism, and absurdity. When someone tells her, "Voting doesn't catch fish," she has no reply, yet perseveres in her attempt to make the world better. Secret Ballot is slow-paced, but the movie's rhythms suit the world it depicts. Nassim Abdi, as the civil servant, gives a wonderfully engaging performance; her innocent, open face captures both the humor and the sadness in her struggle. --Bret Fetzer |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Not a film for everyone |
| I borrowed this movie from a friend and it was pretty good. But this movie is definately NOT for everyone.
First off, it's not like a typical American movie. Nobody gets blown up, nobody gets bloodied up, no special effects or computer generation. But I watch a lot of movies, especially foreign films, so I had no problem watching this. Also, this is an Iranian movie so you need to take in the consideration of the role that woman play. That will definately help you to understand the movie better. The movie moves very slow, as I'm sure a few reviewers have probabally said already. But anyway, heres my summary of the movie: A soldier (Cyrus Abidi) has to escort a person sent from the government to collect ballots form the people of an island off thr coast of Iran. This ballot-collector just happens to be a woman (Nassim Abdi) and the soldier is not to happy about this. He makes comments like "They told me an agent was coming, not a woman" amongst some other sexist things. But thats how life is. So they go around the island and try to collect peoples ballots and get back to the base to get picked up at 5. A lot of people don't want to vote and when they do vote, the candidates they want to vote for aren't on the aproved ballot. So you can imagine what kinds of things result. All in all, this movie was funny, but not everyone gets the humor. My freind watched this movie as well and thought it a movie with no point. So I suggest you rent this movie or borrow it from a freind if possible before you actually buy it. |
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