Hit the Road, an Iranian film featuring another eight-year-old

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Last discussion, I wrote about eight-year-old twin sisters who appeared in a French film. Another film featuring an incredible little actor was called ‘Hit the Road’. The blurb for this film says ‘…follows a family on a chaotic and mysterious road trip across the rugged landscape of Iran, a journey shrouded in mystery and filled with evasive behaviour and humour.’ Hit the Road was released in Australia in March of this year (2022). The young boy in the film is Rayan Sarlak and he is eight years old. He appeared younger in the film and was the most precocious, exasperating child you could ever imagine which gives great credit to his acting skills. He was as slippery as an eel and almost drove his parents to despair. He could also dance like there was no tomorrow. For me, the other memorable feature of the film was the harsh landscape, so unlike anything I’ve ever known. One couple we spoke to didn’t like the film because they couldn’t stand the child but that was perhaps a bit harsh. It was hard to work out what actually happened in this film. It seems the older son was trying to get across the border. Towards the end, a small group of families were camped and the young men went off on the back of motor-bikes with hooded riders. And that was about it! The photo is of an origami black swan that children had made during school holiday activities.