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''Taste of Cherry'' is a 1997 Iranian film directed by Creator/AbbasKiarostami. The film concerns a middle-aged man named Mr. Badii who plans to commit suicide. Mr. Badii drives aroung Tehran trying to find someone to bury him after he dies.
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''Taste of Cherry'' is a 1997 Iranian film directed by Creator/AbbasKiarostami.
The film concerns a middle-aged man named Mr. Badii, who, as the movie opens, is driving around the hills outside of Tehran. He approaches a young soldier on the way back to his barracks and offers him a ride. Soon, Mr. Badiiwho plans is trying to coax the soldier to go on a detour with him, with an offer of a lucrative job. Is Mr. Badii a gay man looking for a pickup? No, he is planning to commit suicide.suicide and in fact has already dug his own grave. Mr. Badii drives aroung Tehran is trying to find someone who will agree to bury him after he dies.
dies, or, if he loses his nerve, to help him out of the grave.
The film concerns a middle-aged man named Mr. Badii, who, as the movie opens, is driving around the hills outside of Tehran. He approaches a young soldier on the way back to his barracks and offers him a ride. Soon, Mr. Badii
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* CreatorCameo: Abbas Kiraostami (and others in the film crew) appear during the GainaxEnding.
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* HealthcareMotivation: Why the taxidermist ultimately agrees to assist in Mr. Badii's scheme. He has a sick son at home and needs the money.
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* HealthcareMotivation: Why Mr. Bagheri, the taxidermist taxidermist, ultimately agrees to assist in Mr. Badii's scheme. He has a sick son at home and needs the money.
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* NoNameGiven: None of the three people Mr. Badii approaches are named. It's almost a NamelessNarrative until towards the end when Mr. Badii identifies himself.
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* NoNameGiven: None The first two of the three people Mr. Badii approaches are named. It's almost a NamelessNarrative until towards the end when Mr. Badii identifies himself.
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* DramaticIrony: After Mr. Badii makes an unsafe U-turn in the middle of a road, a passing driver says "Hey, what's wrong? Are you in a hurry to die?"
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* NoNameGiven: The young Kurdish soldier that Mr. Badii first approaches is not named.
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* NoNameGiven: The young Kurdish soldier that None of the three people Mr. Badii first approaches is not named.are named. It's almost a NamelessNarrative until towards the end when Mr. Badii identifies himself.
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* HealthcareMotivation: Why the taxidermist ultimately agrees to assist in Mr. Badii's scheme. He has a sick son at home and needs the money.
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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: A few afternoon hours, as Mr. Badii drives around the hills looking for someone to bury him.
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* TitleDrop: Almost. The Turkish taxidermist tells a story about how he attempted to commit suicide but changed his mind after tasting mulberries.
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* TitleDrop: Almost. The Towards the end the Turkish taxidermist tells a story about how he attempted man, trying to commit talk Mr. Badii into abandoning his suicide but changed his mind after tasting mulberries.plan, says "You wan to give up the taste of cherries?"
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* InMediasRes: The third segment of the film, where Mr. Badii gets the Turkish man to agree to help him, does not show Mr. Badii approaching him or the Turk getting into his car. A scene where Mr. Badii watches the quarry in operation cuts to him getting in the car, where the Turk is already there and where Mr. Badii has already explained offscreen what is to be done.
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* ThousandYardStare: Mr. Badii's empty stare as he sits for a while and watches the operations of the quarry.
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* TheFaceless: The security guard at the quarry has a whole conversation with Mr. Badii but his face is never seen. In fact he's never seen at all until the end of the scene, where he wanders into frame with his back to the camera as Mr. Badii drives off.
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* SpeechCentricWork: A lot of talking from beginning to end, as Mr. Badii tries to convince people to dispose of his corpse.
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* TheFaceless: The security guard at the quarry has a whole conversation with Mr. Badii but his face is never seen. In fact he's never seen at all until the end of the scene, where he wanders into frame with his back to the camera as Mr. Badii drives off.
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* DigYourOwnGrave: Mr. Badii has done this for himself, on purpose. All he needs is for someone to shovel the dirt over him after he kills himself, or to help him out if he loses his nerve.
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* NoNameGiven: The young Kurdish soldier that Mr. Badii first approaches is not named.
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Taste of Cherry is a 1997 Iranian film directed by Creator/AbbasKiarostami. The film concerns a middle-aged man named Mr. Badii who plans to commit suicide. Mr. Badii drives aroung Tehran trying to find someone to bury him after he dies.
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Taste of Cherry is a 1997 Iranian film directed by Creator/AbbasKiarostami. The film concerns a middle-aged man named Mr. Badii who plans to commit suicide. Mr. Badii drives aroung Tehran trying to find someone to bury him after he dies.
It won the Palme d'Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.
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*CallBack: Badii says that the happiest time in his life was when he was in the army. The film's Gainax Ending references this.
*DrivenToSuicide: The taxidermist in the past, and Mr. Badii in the present. Interestingly, it's never explained why.
*GainaxEnding: [[spoiler: After the Turkish taxidermist agrees to bury Mr. Badii after he commits suicide Badii goes and lies down in his grave. After a period of darkness, the film cuts to a shot of the people making the film. The actor who plays Mr. Badii hands a cigarette to Kiarostami while some soldiers sit around.]]
*{{Minimalism}}: The film is mostly just shots of Mr. Badii's car driving and Mr. Badii talking with people. The film also refuses to divulge Mr. Badii's reason for wanting to commit suicide or any background information about him.
*MistakenForGay: In Mr. Badii's first attempt, he sounds like he is propositioning the young soldier for sexual favors. It's a sign that he's so caught up in his own despair that he doesn't notice how he comes across to other people.
*RuleOfThree: Mr. Badii attempts to convince three different people to bury him after he dies.
*TitleDrop: Almost. The Turkish taxidermist tells a story about how he attempted to commit suicide but changed his mind after tasting mulberries.
It won the Palme d'Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.
!!Tropes
*CallBack: Badii says that the happiest time in his life was when he was in the army. The film's Gainax Ending references this.
*DrivenToSuicide: The taxidermist in the past, and Mr. Badii in the present. Interestingly, it's never explained why.
*GainaxEnding: [[spoiler: After the Turkish taxidermist agrees to bury Mr. Badii after he commits suicide Badii goes and lies down in his grave. After a period of darkness, the film cuts to a shot of the people making the film. The actor who plays Mr. Badii hands a cigarette to Kiarostami while some soldiers sit around.]]
*{{Minimalism}}: The film is mostly just shots of Mr. Badii's car driving and Mr. Badii talking with people. The film also refuses to divulge Mr. Badii's reason for wanting to commit suicide or any background information about him.
*MistakenForGay: In Mr. Badii's first attempt, he sounds like he is propositioning the young soldier for sexual favors. It's a sign that he's so caught up in his own despair that he doesn't notice how he comes across to other people.
*RuleOfThree: Mr. Badii attempts to convince three different people to bury him after he dies.
*TitleDrop: Almost. The Turkish taxidermist tells a story about how he attempted to commit suicide but changed his mind after tasting mulberries.
