![]() ![]() The cops seem more concerned with Kami's dark glasses than the girls' obvious intoxication, let alone their traveling the wrong way down a one way street, but no sooner have they resumed their journey than they plow into another car. Hoping to avoid coming under scrutiny once again, they offer to pay damages, but the city's ATMs are all in service to subsidy transfers and they have no cash. That's when the stylish and handsome Toofan steps in. No sooner is he in their car, then he mentions he's a friend of Bashar's. Later, after Nobahar's urged Arineh to drive off, he'll return with an older friend, a man he introduces as Saddam although 'he doesn't like to be called that.' Up until this point, Ahmadzade's film has been playful, a journey through the night with Nobahar pulling at gummy worms, continually asking Arineh to find stops because of her frequent needs to pee which in turn leads to an entertaining discourse on the evolution of the Western toilet. The tone of the film changes dramatically, however, beginning with Nobahar's dismay that Arineh has explained to Toofan that her weak bladder is the result of her MS. Toofan becomes physically abusive when Arineh is out of sight, then insists they stop in a tunnel where a door marked 'C27' leads, he says to a parallel world, perhaps where Saddam's WMDs were really hidden. Is Toofan, with his movie star looks, expensive attire and dubious connections the spectre of Middle Eastern strife? Ahmadzade has described his film as reality transitioning into a dream, so perhaps his boogeyman is a nightmarish representation of nuclear fears. #ATOMIC HEART CHARACTER CREATION MOVIE#.
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