Jafar Panahi's film "It Was Only an Accident" conveys the struggles of a mechanic who believes he has located his torturer after a prison sentence. Struggling with his quest for vengeance, the mechanic relies only on a distinctive sound linked to the wrongdoer, revealing the challenges of seeking justice without certainty. This reflection on identity and revenge grows increasingly absurd as he meets other victims who also grapple with their own unresolved pain, leading to a stark commentary on the futility of justice when faces are obscured and memories are unreliable.
The mechanic vows to take revenge, but there's a problem: He never saw the man's face, and all he has to go on is the telltale squeak of his tormenter's prosthetic leg.
After a while, what started out as an anguished vigilante mission starts to feel more like a lopsided farce. Without the ability to identify the person who wronged them, the very idea of justice becomes a joke.
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