And
the narratively challenged film seems conflicted: It critiques our obsession with models and beauty and style, even as it obsesses about those very same things.
Not exact matches
After reading the book, the
film remains a
challenge:
narratively, stylistically, temperamentally.
But,
narratively speaking, Armipour's
film delves far deeper, more specifically
challenging the place of women in Middle Eastern society, where a woman walking home alone is the very definition of immorality.