Trust cinema “JamJam” newspaper criticized the movie “Money and Party” which was released recently.
This media wrote: One of the films that managed to achieve significant sales in the first days of its release is the film “Money and Party” directed by Saeed Sohailizadeh. The first comment that comes to mind about the movie after finishing it and leaving the theater is that it was a full-fledged Persian movie, but everything does not end here, and it must be said that Money and Party is even one of those movies that we like. We know the title of Farsi film, it is a step behind because some of their features are absent in this film.
A good student
As mentioned before, the film Money and Party contains everything that a Persian film had before the revolution. If you are old enough for the period of Persian films or if you are a professional follower of cinema, you are familiar with the films that are referred to as Persian films. Movies whose stories are usually told among the lower classes and the love between a poor boy and a rich girl. The main character or the hero of the film is a handsome boy who likes everyone and the constant foot of all Persian films was to sing a song in the middle of the film. Now, if we examine the film Money and Party even with a cursory glance, it is clear that the director’s intention was nothing more than making a Persian film.
The film is the story of a boy from the lower class of society who wants to make his and his family’s dream come true by defrauding an upper-class family, and therefore he takes action with all the family members to implement his plan, but things happen later in the story. That this issue loses its importance.
Here everyone is poor, only some are poorer
Looking at this synopsis, it is clear that the story of the movie has used a twisted cliché in order to narrate its jokes. Also, in such films, one of the characteristics has always been that the character of the boy in the film was portrayed as a loti-maslak character, popular, etc., but the character of Shahid, played by Saed Sohaili, has no sign of those characters. Also, the names of secondary characters in the film such as Perry, American Nationalist, Lashgar Kose, etc., have been chosen with such a view that it helps to bring alive Persian films before the revolution. One of the characteristics of the movie Money and Party is that in imitation, It was good and we saw in it the main feature of pre-revolution Persian films, that is, the singing of songs in the most irrelevant way possible. Perhaps the only difference between this film and the examples it imitated is that female singers were used before the revolution, but Money and Party has even overcome this problem and has made it work by replaying an old song by a female singer before the revolution! But it should not be denied that Sohailizadeh has made a new result in Money and Party during the film and at the very strange end of the film. The character of Dunya (Ahmadiyeh Campus) expresses it: Here, everyone is poor, only some of them are branded poor here!
The end of just a tango!
Perhaps the strangest character in the movie Money and Party is the character of Imran (Dariush Farhang), who we hear more than we see him in the movie, who is introduced as Shahid’s love rival and plays an important role in the end of the movie. The strangeness of this character is due to the fact that he is introduced as the first drug trafficker in Iran, who has been imprisoned for several years and now wants to marry Danya after his release. On the wedding night of Danya, Imran’s character forces Shahid to dance hand in hand to a famous tango song, and in the middle of the song and rhythmic movements of Saed Sohaili and Dariush Farhang, frames of Danya Walshgar, Shahid’s father, crying and shouting are shown. Shahid throws the car along with Imran from the balcony of the building. Seeing such sequences, one asks oneself that the cultural apparatus of our country, which the people of culture and the people of the society put so many restrictions on it, by what process and reason, allowed such a film to be made? The most important part, i.e. the end of it, is a tango dance between two men, seeing which anything can come to the mind of the audience.
Repetition
Saeed Sohilizadeh has shown himself in his latest work that he is still stuck in his previous work, especially Gosht Irshad 3. Sohailizadeh tried to implement what he did well in his previous films in Money and Party, especially that the genre he chose for his film had the capacity to use those sequences. The first point that you can see in Money and Party It is reminiscent of Gesht Irshad films, it is the same monologues that Saed Sohaili had in the first film of Gesht Irshad trilogy, and there was at least one example of it until the last version. The other common point between money and party with Ershad Gosht 3 goes back to its final sequence; The characters of Dunya and Shahid are riding a motorcycle and their dialogue is broadcast, talking about life and death, exactly like what happens in the final sequence of Gusht Irshad 3, between Saed Sohaili and Poulad Kimiaei.
An advertising film
In addition to all the weaknesses and strange things that can be seen in the movie Money and Party, it must be said that this work is more like a long commercial advertisement than a cinematic work. Advertising in cinematographic works is not a strange thing, and this kind of advertising has been used in the world before, but the important feature of these advertisements is their indirectness, which unfortunately is implemented in the clearest possible way in Iranian cinema, and its use is nothing but hitting the movie. There is no other. In movies on the cinema screen before, the movie Texas 3 had done such a thing that in the middle of the movie, a promotional video of the hotel where the movie was recorded was officially broadcast. In the movie Money and Party, however, Sohailizadeh has gone one step further and has made his film the scene of promoting various products such as tuna and energy drinks, and in all the sequences where these products are present, it is as if that product is more important than the film and the actor, and in The center of the image is located, even in a rare example in the dialogues of the witness character, the name of the product is included to ensure that the audience of the advertising film Money and Party will definitely notice the presence of this product in the film.
Sales are not a sign of quality
The sale of the film Money and Party is only because of the comedy of the film and the director’s background, and the film has no special cinematic value, in other words, the sale of a work is not a sign of its quality. This movie may not have dirty or sexual jokes, but its jokes are not less than those jokes. If you want to consider this movie as a family entertainment, I suggest you choose other movies on the screen even if you have seen it once. In short, that; Money and Party is nothing but a full-fledged Persian movie and if you like this kind of movies, it is a good option to watch, but otherwise you are not missing anything by not watching it.