According to KhabarOnline, in his view, the film, using elements such as speed, chases and incident-filled situations, does not merely seek to entertain the audience, but also strives to examine the social roots and consequences of incidents and, through narrating the lives of the shutis, to address the economic and social conditions shaping this profession.
'Escort' is Yousef Hatamikia's second feature film; a filmmaker who, in his previous work, 'Golden Night', mostly used the enclosed space of a house to advance the story, but in his new film has turned to the road, movement and incident-filled situations.
Reza Saemi, analyzing this change, says 'Escort' is not merely a conventional road film that draws all its appeal from speed and chases. In his view, the film uses the possibilities of the action genre to present a social narrative of the lives of people who, in difficult economic conditions, have turned to shuti-driving.
In this film, the road is not just the scene of incidents; it is a space in which one can see the consequences of poverty, economic insecurity and the decisions people make to go on living. Saemi believes the film's incidents gain importance when the audience also pays attention to their roots and outcomes, rather than merely following the excitement of the chase scenes.
He also considers the presence of well-known actors such as Amir Jadidi and Hoda Zeinolabedin among the film's capacities for attracting audiences, but emphasizes that 'Escort' could have relied solely on entertaining elements and instead has put the genre's possibilities at the service of social concerns.
According to Saemi, one of the results of this approach is that the audience encounters characters about whom a judgment cannot be passed purely by moral criteria. The film tries to show the conditions that shaped these people's choices and, through this, makes it possible to understand the complexities of their lives.
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Source: KhabarOnline
