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possible spoilers - unsolved mysteries


There were many aspects of this story left to implication. When asked to identify his wife and daughter he never gave a reply. We were left to assume that they were identified by him.
I don't recall that it was ever clarified whether the police or the insurgents were responsible for the fate of his family, and yet made no endeavor to search out insurgents the way he did the police.
Had he no idea as to where the wife might leave the daughter while she was at work? If not, then he and his wife did not communicate well. The first police interrogator questioned his relationship with his wife as if it were implied that she might have been with the insurgents unbeknownst to him. It was claimed that the daughter was not with the mother at the time of the riot and yet ultimately it seems that by some means the daughter too was dead.
So the entire story is an unsolved mystery.
When Ali Alevi decided to kill illogically at random some policeman, he went to a remote hill overlooking a freeway, and from a great distance snipered the cop. It is highly unlikely that anyone could possibly have determined where the sniper was, much less who he was, at the time of the incident. He would have been a vague figure at a great distance. Furthermore, he had concealed his vehicle in some kind of tunnel. So no one would have been likely to know where he went or what he drove.
After he went to the shore of the Caspian sea the film implied that there was a police helicopter there to track him. The Caspian shore is a long way from Teheran. There couldn't be any reason that they'd know he was there to be searched for.
Other than a random check there would also be no reason for the police vehicle on the foggy road from the Caspian back to Teheran to have attempted to stop him. He had traded vehicles before then even though no one should have associated him with the events. There wasn't any logical justification for his taking his old car to the junkyard and getting a different vehicle either.

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Not only that but there was the segment where the wife says she lied about being pregnant to get her jailed husband to straighten out. Somehow she got a child to fool him with. Was that why they showed the orphanage, to show how easy it would be for her to get an unwanted child? Did he find out the child wasn't his, that his family wasn't what he thought it was? I understand that whatever the scenario he lost his reason and became a sniper, but all these things made the story very hard to follow. I am assuming a police bullet killed his wife and daughter, that's why he targeted cops.

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Huge unanswered question about how the cops in the car turned back to chase him.

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It is never explained how they recognised Ali, or even how the Police came to be looking for him (he was too far away on the hill top when he shot the first cops, his car was concealed in a tunnel and we presume there are no witnesses, and then after the helicopter scene he gets a new car), but this is the point of the film; its through Ali's eyes, we don't know or get to see what occurs elsewhere. The viewer, like Ali, is a prisoner of sorts, with many things going on in the background which we / Ali, have little or no control over let alone knowledge of. That was my take on it.

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When Ali was captured, one of the policemen said that he left the rifle in his car when he sold it. It is alluded to that the car dealer contacted the police as the policemen appeared to recognise the new car that Ali was driving. It looked like the policemen were driving to the car dealership. That was my take on it anyway.

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