Day Break
by Hamid Rahmanian
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Director: Hamid RahmanianBrand: Film Movement
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Farsi (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
Published: 2006
DVD Release Date: 2008-08-11
Audience Rating: Unrated
Model: Year 4 Film 4
Studio: 4th Row Films/Film Movement
Product features:
- Winner Fajar Film Festival
- Official Selection: Tribeca Film Festival
- Official Selection: Toronto Film Festival
- Winner: Annonay International Film Festival
Movie Reviews of Day Break
Movie Review: amazing film
Summary: 5 Stars
an amazing film. it gives the feel of a documentary in the beginning, sucking you into the reality and showing a different justice system -- one that emphasizes religion and the right of the family of the victim to decides the fate of the murderer, deciding whether the murderer will be executed or serve a long sentence -- the length of the sentence is decided by law. In an early scene, the protagonist and another inmate come to their execution. The victim's family of the protagonist is not there so the decision of his execution is put off for 40 days. The family's presence is mandatory. The other inmate begs the victim's family for forgiveness. The muslim priest lectures them on the importance of forgiveness even as he outlines their right to decide on the execution. Will the family decide to execute? If they do, the man will be hanged but one family member must pull the trolley out from under the man to hang him. You feel that this is a system that does not put the state above the feelings of the person/family. Yet can an average person follow through on killing a killer? In an amazing piece of acting, the father faces his son's killer set on vengeance, but then must face killing the killer. You feel that father's grief, anger and morality. Killing, even killing a killer, is a moral decision. The movie follows the other man in limbo when his victim's family doesn't show. We witness the relationship between the inmates, his despair and his reflections on his life and his relationship with his parents and pregnant wife while he waits. We don't see the actual murder, which is a fault as it is too easy to sympathize with the murderer. I don't know if the movie reflects the reality of the prison system there but if so it is much more humane than here int he U.S. as the prisoners bond in a community trying to give hope to each other. The guards treat them as human although they do what they have to to quell problems, using solitary confinement as punishment. You feel some of these men are salvageable and that this is a system that gives them a chance to join society while giving the victim's family justice. A very good movie. The acting is very good. Framing as a documentary and sliding into a film is a very good move, allowing the filmmakers to ask questions about justice while exploring one man's mind. A+
Summary of Day Break
In Iran, capital punishment is carried out according to Islamic law, which gives the family of the victim ownership of the offender's life. Bay Break, based on a compilation of true stories and shot inside of Tehran's cerntury-ol prison, revolves around the imminent execution of Mansour, a man found guilty of murder. WHen the family of the victim repeatedly fails to show up on the appointed day, the execution is postponed again and again. Stuck inside the purgatory of his own mind, he waits as time passes on without him caught between life and death, retribution and forgiveness.Similar DVD Movies
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