Blu-ray – Edition FR – Wild Side Video – 133 min – December 1, 2021
Video format
• Resolution: 1080p/24
• Ratio: 1.85
Soundtrack
• Farsi DTS-HD MA 5.1
Subtitles
• French
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WORK – Persian Connection
In Iran, the penalty for possession of drugs is the same as 30 g or 50 kg on oneself: the death penalty. Under these conditions, drug traffickers have no scruples to play big and the sale of crack exploded. Results: 6.5 million people dived.
With its striking realism and great narrative mastery, this remarkably well-documented social polar plunges us into the asphyxiating hell of crack. The staging of Saeed Roustayi is implacable, the frantic rhythm, the ambiguous characters (a confrontation at the top between Payman Maadi and Navid Mohammadzadeh) and legions shock scenes (from the opening with a muscular descent). Admitted by William Friedkin In person, this important work depicts the alarming state of Iran, a country on the brink of chaos.
KillerS7ven's Criticism Tehran Law, race-continue towards the gallows
IMAGE – Drug bars
Displaying an admirably nuanced cold and light image, this HD transfer to optimal compression splits into revealing details as possible (the improvised shantytown with concrete cylinders, crowded cells), of eminent natural colors (of the chef op Hooman Behmaanesh) and realistic contrasts to sustained blacks (for excellent low light readability).
SON – I was already dead!
Rhythmed by the vivacity of powerful exchanges (voices are distinctly returned) and well balanced, this farsi soundtrack DTS-HD MA 5.1 delivers a dynamic assured in action, a spatialization with icy veracity (even if the back does not officialise unabated), a parsimony music signed Peyman Yazdanian and basses, which are not very popular but very strong.
CONCLUSION – The nose in the dope
A veritable scourge in the Islamic Republic of Iran, where the authorities are unable to stem a mass addiction, the drug instigates an even more infernal stalking on 4K Ultra HD support (the traffickers are uncovered) carried out by police officers with speeding methods.
Artistic note
9.5
Video quality
9.5
Audio quality
8.5
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