This film is directed by an Iranian gentleman named Ali Abbasi. Lives in Denmark. The production also comes from there. It was filmed in Jordan. It would be utopia if the ayatollahs had allowed him to shoot it in Iran. There are also no poetic, costume and social references that characterize the cinema made in this country. It has a thriller appeal. European or American. His storytelling style is entertaining and what he tells is frightening. Mainly because it’s not fiction. What matters is actually happening. 2001 and in the holy city of Mashhdad, a symbol of supreme religiosity. In it, a guy riding a motorcycle killed 16 women and strangled them with the handkerchiefs they were carrying, with no rape or particularly macabre rituals. He killed them because they were whores and drug addicts, all very easygoing, surviving in the darkest and dirtiest corners of the city. This stubborn and selective killer felt no guilt. He saw himself as a vigilante, a destroyer of evil represented by ungodly fornicators. He murdered in the name of morality, religion, with the intention of ending sin. How scary religions.
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Unlike so many memorable films, including Seven and Zodiac, two masterpieces signed by David Fincher, here we are shown the butcher’s face from the start, the mystery of his identity is not delayed. There is nothing fascinating about turkey. He’s a model husband and father, apart from a few small outbursts that show something is wrong in his confused mind. The scariest thing is that with popular opinion justifying or glorifying his crimes, Jack the Persian Ripper is enthroned in the streets as a much-needed and long-awaited social savior. And the government, the police and the judiciary were making a mess of how to deal with it. It will be a very awkward journalist demanding respect for her job and her dangerous condition as a woman who insists on hunting down this popular psychopath who thinks of the Most High.
Holy Spider offers unreleased images in the film plots that talk about life in Iran. Things that are so natural, like people dressing and undressing, some women putting makeup on their eyes and lips. There are even some fucks. It is clear to me that this film cannot be shown there. The vision he offers of that country is therefore bleak. And those who oppose fanaticism have it very rough. With the danger of not only being imprisoned, but sentenced to death for flimsy reasons. And women have it very bad. They lead protests that put their very existence at stake. A woman was killed in a police station. His terrorist crime, and hence the crushing punishment, was to wear the hijab badly. It is amazing that such barbarism can happen. And you have to have a lot of courage to keep demanding rights when the bills are so wild.
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Actress Zar Amir-Ebrahimi, who stars in Holy Spider and won the Best Performance award at the Cannes Film Festival, is one of the endorsers of this film. It’s not a stunning feat, but it rings true. What is most disturbing about this acceptable film is that it does not obey the fevered imagination of a screenwriter, but is told in real terms.
holy spider
Direction: Ali Abbasi.
Actor: Zar Amir-Ebrahimi, Mehdi Bajestani, Arash Ashtiani, Forouzan Jamshidnejad, Sina Parvaneh.
Gender: Thriller. Denmark, 2002.
Duration: 116 minutes.
Release date: January 13th.
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