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Holy Spider is an internationally co-produced Persian language in 2022 crime thriller movie directed by Ali Abbasi.

Based on the true story of Saeed Hanalei, a serial killer who targeted sex workers and murdered 16 women in Mashhad, Iran. from 2000 to 2001, the film depicts a fictional female journalist investigating a serial killer.

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It was chosen to compete for the Palme d’Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where it premiered on May 22, 2022. Zar Amir Ebrahimi was named Best Actress at the festival.

At the 95th Academy Awards, the film was chosen as Denmark’s entry for Best International Feature Film and was named the December’s shortlist.

End movie Holy Spider (2022) explained

Shortly after Rahimi’s escape, so is Saeed stopped by the police. Yet he follows them with a sly smile. Despite the arrest, Rahimi believes this is just the beginning of his sentencing. She believes he will find a way out because of the religious forces outside that would justify this mean man’s behavior as cleaning up the streets.

As she suspected, such forces and a large number of local residents have killed the killer a morally clean cheat. Prostitutes, on the other hand, are looked down upon despite their profession because of the same social forces that prevent them from even providing the bare necessities of life.

Saeed’s son is taught how justified his father’s actions are, to the point where he begins to do so feel proud of what his father did. He notices the public support for his father and is strangely motivated to act in kind.

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Meanwhile, Rahimi and Sharifi pay visits to the victims’ families to persuade them to testify against the murder killer in court. They are ashamed of their daughters and realize that a lawsuit will not help them reclaim them.

Because of their precarious financial situation, they would rather do that sign anything for money. As Rahimi grows more and more helpless, Saeed’s wife works tirelessly to get him released.

She is convinced that he has done nothing wrong, and she instills this belief in their children. She sees the crowd and realizes they are Support Saeed for their own personal, temporary relief rather than genuine concern for their family.

When Rahimi interviews Saeed in jail, he unflinchingly admits killing 16 women and expresses no regret for noticing that Rahimi would have been his next victim. While his lawyer tries to sway the case in his favor by citing his own unstable mental state, he begins to ramble about his religious motives, which he believes are not immoral, making it more difficult for his family to free him.

‘Holy Spider’ review: brutality story

‘Holy Spider’, like many serial killer dramas, is a ghastly gruesome thriller disguised as a moral story. Ali Abbasi, an Iranian filmmaker based in Denmark, directed the film, which tells the story of Saeed Hanaei (Mehdi Bajestani), a construction worker and war veteran in Mashhad, Iran, who strangled 16 prostitutes in 2000 and 2001.

His case sparked a media frenzy when his apparent attempt to make his hometown — a spiritual center for it Shiite Muslims – received public support from hardline Iranians.

Powerful attempt to portray the political and emotional sides of a murder considered sacred by religious fundamentalists. Well structured to point against Iran’s religious superiority and religious hooliganism.

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— Niranjan Thekkedath (@NiranjanT2003) January 1, 2023

The irony at the heart of “Holy Spider” is fascinating and timely: How does a holy city not only tolerate prostitution, but actively encourage it, drug trafficking, and random slaughter? However, the film’s genre film styles reduce these socio-political issues to psychosexual spectacles.

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Abbasi seems to be fascinated by Hanalei’s contradictions, which make a devout Muslim, a family man, a pervert and a ruthless killer all at the same time. But anyone reading the news, anywhere in the world, will be stunned by this rotten misogynistic hypocrisy.

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