Response to "A Moment of Innocence"

Personally I love the film because of the editing. A scene is shown from one perspective and then from another and the audience must reevaluate their understanding of the previous scene. For example, one scene follows the cop and the young actor playing the cop. During the scene a young woman interrupts the cop and the actor from rehearsing the incident by asking what time it is. Later, in the next scene following Makhmalbaf and his young actor, the two find a young woman to play the role of the woman who distracted the cop on the day of the incident. They choose to use the young actor Makhmalbaf's cousin. The two young people walk through the streets and then separate. The young woman wants to know what time it is and asks around. Eventually she passes a young man in uniform and asks for the time. This moment is a repeated moment in the film but is arrived at in two different ways. What seemed insignificant in the first scene was the culmination of the second.

I also liked the comedic aspect of the film with people arguing. For example, the girl (Makhmalbaf's niece) and her mother (Makhmalbaf's cousin) about not being allowed to act in the film and having to remain indoors. The arguing made the film more relatable because it shows people displaying their frustrations and how they deal with them. And to some extent hearing and argument it comedic, that's why people watch Jerry Springer.