Trust cinemaMohammad Rezadalir wrote in Etemad newspaper:
Soroush Sahet, after years of practicing filmmaking in a different environment and making series that saw the world through his own lens, is now standing at a peak in (Breakfast with Giraffes) where you can laugh and think with each of his sequences and even cry sometimes! Sehat even mocks death and absurdity and does not hesitate to take the main character to his death in the middle of the film and drag him back to his present world. Soroush Sehat’s latest work is considered a strange and readable event in Iranian cinema. If many second-rate filmmakers, by making cheap comedies with a mixture of sexual jokes, saw the message at the end of their works as a cover for using absurd and prismatic humor, Soroush Sehat was without any resistance. He left aside compliments and with a lot of references and sexual innuendos, he carried the burden of the entire Iranian cinema on his shoulders, and in the meantime, he added a final message and advice! Soroush Sehat is prolific and intelligent. It leaves its effect in just 90 minutes! So that immediately after watching the movie in the cinema, the famous sentence of the movie becomes the most frequent word among the audience: Engineer, don’t you think it’s about time we get to ourselves? Yes. I think positively, let’s go. Won’t you be upset if I don’t come with you? Yes, very much.
Sehat has read and written so much that his contemporaries are worried about him. He is well familiar with the type of dialogues and the thinking that lies in the minds of young people. He knows how to put the words of his contemporaries into the language of his roles so that it is believable and concrete. Breakfast with Giraffes starts slowly and has a slow rhythm, although it is a bit boring and may be considered a negative point in this respect, but the process of creating situations makes sense. They turn to drugs! This issue needs a principled process to be presented so that we can follow the details of the story.
Maybe the slow rhythm was the filmmaker’s technique in order to get to the main issue. Soroush Sehat basically has a brilliant history in characterization. He has demonstrated this skill in the Doctors Building and Pejman series, as well as in the film Jahan Ba Man Bares, but in Breakfast with There is a flaw in the characterization of the giraffes. Mojtaba’s character, played by Bahram Radan, is well-characterized, and Shahin, played by Bijan Banafsehkhah, is acceptable, but the doctor, played by Hadi Hijazifar, Reza and Pouyan, are not well introduced to the audience, and in the initial layer and They are treated at a level!
Drugs play a prominent role in the film. In a friendly group that is introduced to the audience, everyone uses drugs and their work seems interesting and attractive. There is no education and social status of the user either! The character of the doctor, who is a surgeon and has a high social status, in addition to taking drugs, is also an alcoholic and at the same time takes care of his patient! Although the main message of the film is forgiveness and forgiveness, it is limited to a few short statements and the audience is mostly faced with some drug addict friends and open girls who, in times of crisis, turn to drugs as a solution and think more about partying. And they are having fun and living in the moment! Characters who, because of their laziness and doing awkward things, are negative role models that convey despair and absurdity to the audience.
Let’s talk about the story of the movie. In order to get away from the boring atmosphere of their friend Reza Pejman Jamshidi’s wedding, they take refuge in drugs and even invite the groom to their small banquet in the motorhome of the wedding hall to remember their single days. He loses consciousness while using drugs and when he regains consciousness, nothing is the same anymore and everything has changed. The audience is faced with people who are willing to do anything to add color and flavor to their prosperous life, and even events such as death cannot separate them from their goal! to convey life and death to the audience in the form of a stoner movie as one of the sub-genres of comedy, while the audience expects him to create situations and create moments in order to see a film by Soroush Sahet with that brilliant record in serialization and comedy. It is funny, the continuous use of the symbol and relying on the advancement of the narrative has given the good idea of breakfast with giraffes and turned the movie into a disposable work! In such a way that the audience’s connection with it ends before the credits roll, leaving the filmmaker’s people to think about the abstract world!
Besides, in the set of characters of this movie, there is no justification for choosing them except their fame! Basically, the characters are the most important way to understand the world of the movie. But what we see in this movie are people before the characters! In Breakfast with Giraffes, the movie characters are divided into two types; One is the women who breathe on the sidelines and play the role of a cat! And the other men who are using drugs under any conditions and from any class of society! The characters are somewhat fake and unrealistic and have no relationship with real life, and everything in the film seems fake! Besides, the narrative flow of the film is not smooth and many parts of it can be easily separated. This unreality of the world The film and the real world confuse the audience.
Confusion between communicating with the characters of the story and justifying their strange actions! It seems that the filmmaker deliberately chooses characters who use drugs so that he can speak his philosophical words more easily! In the movie (Breakfast with Giraffes), after Pejman Jamshidi regained consciousness, the rest of his friends continue to use drugs in the same situation without learning from the past experience! Of course, it seems that the filmmaker is trying to express a view based on enjoying the pleasures of life as his thematic geometry, and in the meantime, he cleverly combines the view of Hakim Khayam Neishabouri and the explanation of the absurdity of life in a modern form and offers the audience absurdism.
The filmmaker also makes clever references to the issue of death and its suddenness, which, of course, has succeeded to some extent in this project. Among the positive points of the film, we can mention the intimate atmosphere of the film, which the filmmaker has presented in a simple and fluent language in the form of dialogues and narration of the story. Finally, we can consider Breakfast with Giraffes as a special comedy that has a philosophical meaning!