THE WIND WILL CARRY US...

The Tehran film, “The Wind Will Carry Us”, is an intriguing account of life in a typical Tehran village. The film demonstrates how everyone in the village fills a specific niche that is required if the village is going to thrive. There are the young men who work out in the field while the children and elderly stay and take care of the village. The film is almost a documentation of the primitive lives still lead by a good portion of the world today, particularly by those who live in developing countries. The only advances the audience sees towards modern society is the use of a cell phone used by the engineer, who is visiting from out of town. The director really focuses a large majority of the film on highlighting national characteristics of Tehran. The village has no electricity, no appliances or modern devices only good old fashion manpower. The audience sees women washing and hanging clothes, having tons of children (most likely because the woman have never heard of birth control or contraception), and few automobiles. There appear to be no universal themes that many individuals can relate to. Since in today’s technology driven world only a small portion live similar lives to those individuals in this particular small village. Overall, I found the film to be slow and a little repetitive. A lot of the same types of actions were repeated for the entirety of the film. For most of the film the audience saw a car driving up and down a hill to talk on a cell phone while the other part of the film the audience saw the engineer talking to a young boy about a sick woman in town. Simply, the film was unable to hold my attention for the entire hour and forty-five minutes that it ran.