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#ATOMIC HEART CHARACTER CREATION MOVIE#
Is Toofan, with his movie star looks, expensive attire and dubious connections the spectre of Middle Eastern strife? Ahmadzade has described his film as reality transitioning into a dream, so perhaps his boogeyman is a nightmarish representation of nuclear fears. Toofan becomes physically abusive when Arineh is out of sight, then insists they stop in a tunnel where a door marked 'C27' leads, he says to a parallel world, perhaps where Saddam's WMDs were really hidden. The tone of the film changes dramatically, however, beginning with Nobahar's dismay that Arineh has explained to Toofan that her weak bladder is the result of her MS. Later, after Nobahar's urged Arineh to drive off, he'll return with an older friend, a man he introduces as Saddam although 'he doesn't like to be called that.' Up until this point, Ahmadzade's film has been playful, a journey through the night with Nobahar pulling at gummy worms, continually asking Arineh to find stops because of her frequent needs to pee which in turn leads to an entertaining discourse on the evolution of the Western toilet. No sooner is he in their car, then he mentions he's a friend of Bashar's.
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That's when the stylish and handsome Toofan steps in. Hoping to avoid coming under scrutiny once again, they offer to pay damages, but the city's ATMs are all in service to subsidy transfers and they have no cash. The cops seem more concerned with Kami's dark glasses than the girls' obvious intoxication, let alone their traveling the wrong way down a one way street, but no sooner have they resumed their journey than they plow into another car.
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They're relaxed with their hip male friend Kami, but his teasing about Arineh's inept driving doesn't help them avoid the notice of police. Not only are our female protagonists a bit tipsy, but they're sporting unnaturally colored hair beneath their bright head scarves. That his characters are put between a rock and a hard place by Iran's subsidy reform plan and Saddam Hussein's WMDs suggests an intriguing political statement by way of reality and fantasy, just as a game of rock-paper-scissors resolves a life-and-death situation with child's play. He may be following the lead of elders like Kiarostami and Panahi with a film that largely takes place in a car, but that is where the similarities end, Ahmadzade's trippy road trip highlighting a much more open, Westernized society than we're used to seeing in Iranian cinema. Already a little rattled by some of his comments, things get increasingly bizarre when he has them consider an alternate world in "Atomic Heart." With his sophomore film, cowriter (with Mani Baghbani)/director Ali Ahmadzade ("Kami's Party") establishes himself as a major new voice in Iranian cinema. But when they get in an accident, the good Samaritan, Toofan (Mohammad Reza Golzar), who helps them out, insists they repay him by driving him to his destination. She and her friend Nobahar (Pegah Ahangarani, "Women's Prison") are a little drunk as they make their way home, stopping to talk to their friend Kami (Mehrdad Sedighian) about such things as Pink Floyd's 'Atom Heart Mother' (the film's Iranian title) and his apocalyptic dream. Arineh ("About Elly's" Taraneh Alidoosti) whiles away some time creating rhythm with an elevator door sensor.