A Man of Integrity (2017)
(film 120 minutes)

Directed by: Mohammad Rasoulof
Language: Persian

Rating: 4/10 | Yaser Tohidi
August 13, 2019

A previously student activist who tries to enjoy a quiet life with his wife - a high-school dean - and his son by fish farming is faced with (beside financial problems) one problem: a company operating in the area where they live is interested in their house. The company is powerful in the region where corruption prevails. The movie continues to show how the company makes problems for the man, our yet protagonist, the moralist, and how corruption blocks him from resolving these problems. He cannot accept to pay bribe although his life is in critical situation. His wife, who supports his moralities at the beginning, cannot bare the problems anymore and encourages him to resolve the problems by any means even paying bribes, but he refuses. 
A man of Integrity is a social drama about corruption augmentation. The man is our protagonist in the beginning when he fights the situation while putting moralities on top. But at the end, he fails and changes to a monster. So the story does not conclude to any promising ending. Positive social function - catharsis if you like - is a prerequisite for a good plot for a social drama. A social drama results to a positive/good feeling when there is some hope in the plot. This is lacking in A man of Integrity. 
Apart from this, the movie includes some extra side stories, such as the minority family whose daughter commits suicide, which are not related to the main line of the story and make the movie go out of rhythm. 

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