Save this article to read it later.
Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection.
Theyre of this culture and susceptible to it, no matter their smarts and resolve.
Mistake, mistake, mistake given her dependence on him.
This is Mozaffaris first feature and its beautifully modulated from its first frame to almost its last.
(The last scene is a weirdly tacked-on mistake that I cant grapple with here.)
The writing is spare.
These kids have their own shorthand and can live without pinning things down.
What Mozaffari does better than almost anyone I can think of is dramatize the illusory nature of control.
Fighting back feels good and sometimes works but sometimes doesnt, because the real power isnt with them.
The actors make the ordinary extraordinary they give these characters the stature that eludes most superheroes.
Kurimsky pares away all the unnecessary externals her body signals one thing, I want out.
You come away fromFirecrackersmarveling not at the characters strength but at their unending struggle against weakness.
