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Taste of Cherry (1997)
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A man seeking help with his planned suicide encounters people whose ordinary lives exceed the task he wants them to perform. Abbas Kiarostami's final change in the image asks what the act of watching can offer this encounter. The difficult subject and patient driving scenes lead towards a discussion about attention, possibility and the limits of a closed narrative.
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About Taste of Cherry
A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.