By Grace Graham
The Film Aparat by Hasan Najmabadi is a heartwarming short story about 6 teenage boys who put their differences aside and work together to watch a movie. I genuinely really loved this film. It was simple, to the point, and provided a good message.
Throughout the film, we see a recurring theme of the importance of movies and films. When the boys are initially trading in their collected scraps, they forgo money and instead opt to receive films as payment. When they see a projector that they want to use, and find out how much it costs to rent, they put their competition with one another aside and work together to save enough money. Additionally, we see the culmination of this theme in the final scene of the movie when the boys are using the projector to watch the film Cinema Paradiso – a movie about how a film director fell in love with the cinema as a child .
Overall, I thought the story was wholesome and well thought out. The final message that I was left with was that all of us around the world are fundamentally the same; for instance, we all love the movies. Thank you again to Hasan Najmabadi. I hope we see more of your films soon.
I would give this film 5/5 stars!
Grace Graham is an Undergraduate at Arizona State University. She is earning her bachelor’s degree in Graphic information Technology. She hopes to enter a career in video production or animation. Currently, she is a working as a barista and is a communications intern at CMRubinWorld
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