Bomb: A Love Story (2018) Bomb, yek asheghaneh

Director: Payman Maadi
Writer: Payman Maadi
Stars: Leila Hatami, Payman Maadi, Siamak Ansari

It’s 1988 and at the height of the Iran-Iraq War, Tehran is bombed relentlessly. The days that pass are full of foreboding, and yet love, affection, hope and life itself manage to sweep away the fear of death from those surrounded by it. Love may often be difficult to comprehend, but death is a horrible certitude. Bomb, A Love Story shows how, even when faced with the darkness of death, love and hope will find a way.

First of all "Bomb, a Love Story" is a simple romance movie that contains concepts about war and education. If you can't find out the relation of this movie with education you better think about the scenes in school, where the principal talks about the enemies of the country and the kids start to chant againts the enemies, but when the principal is talking about something else the kids start to chant again, that's because they don't know exactly what are they chanting about! Filming is good and some shots are so beautiful, like the one that Iraj is talking about his brother and what they used to do when they were kids, but the filming in some scenes is not very good. The acting is good but like the filming, it's not very satisfying in some scenes. And Eleni Karaindrou has made a beautiful music for the movie.

At the end, the movie makes you think about a world full of love, after all, what is life without love?

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