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Homayoun Ershadi
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Abdolrahman Bagheri
Mr. Bagheri
Safar Ali Moradi
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Mir Hossein Noori
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Elham Imani
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Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari
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A review by CRCulver
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Written by CRCulver on Tue Aug 14 2018
In Abbas Kiarostami's 1997 film Ta'm-e gilas (Taste of Cherry) one Mr. Badi, a man about whom viewers learn virtually nothing, drives around Tehran looking for someone to do him a favour: that night, he will kill himself in a quarry outside the city, and he wants someone to cast dirt over his body the next morning.
The first half of the film is essentially about Mr. Badi's difficulties finding someone to carry out this small task, in spite of the substantial amount of money he's offering. He is initially mistaken as a homosexual cruising for sex, a misunderstanding that Kiarostami even ribal...
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Original Language
English
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Keywords
- suicide
- life and death
- muslim
- talking
- nihilism
- koran
- teheran (tehran), iran
- construction site
- suicidal thoughts
- grave digging
- driving
- hopelessness
- life challenges
- self-harm
- contemplating suicide
- ideologies
- religious conversation
- iranian cinema
- desperation
- commit suicide
- depressed man