Berkocinegoers at The Rex: It Was Just an Accident (Subtitled)

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Martin Jones
KROO BANK
04-07-09
#00779315

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Run time: 104 mins
Review:
The film opens with a long, unbroken, deceptively charming shot of a genial man (Ebrahim Azizi) and his happy, pregnant wife driving in the countryside one evening. When the car breaks down, the husband persuades a mechanic to tinker with it, but then the mechanic's rumpled colleague Vahid (Vahid Mobasseri) recognises a chilling combination of sounds: the uneven footsteps of someone with a limp, and the squeaks of an artificial leg.
These sounds, which have haunted Vahid's nightmares for years, recall someone he calls Peg Leg, a sadistic interrogator who tortured him while he was incarcerated on trumped-up sedition charges. On impulse, Vahid knocks the man out with a shovel, and stuffs him in a box in the back of his van.
But wait. Vahid was always blindfolded while he was in prison, and so he can't be certain that the man he has caught is Peg Leg, after all. He decides to drive into the city to get a second opinion from a friend who was locked up with him, but even then, things aren't so simple. Before long, Vahid's van is full of former prisoners arguing over the question.
It Was Just an Accident is a taut and twisting revenge thriller loaded with heavyweight ethical quandaries. It is heartbreakingly explicit about what the well-drawn characters have suffered, but it asks whether they can ever be justified in using the same methods – abduction, torture – as their oppressors. Even if they can be sure that their captive is Peg Leg, do they have the right to execute him? On the other hand, do they have a choice? Have they gone so far that they will be in more trouble if they release him than if they finish the job?

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