I have no idea how it ends...

The movie About Elly, already admired, praised and well awarded in some major festivals and in so many reviews. It has been a success in Iranian box-office under the worse screening circumstances. All of the above is a good indication that the story should have been revealed by now, but it hasn't. As if there has been a collective agreement on not giving away the story by those who have already seen the movie. As far as I've read in the reviews, this film fits in suspense genre. This is how I interpret the post-viewing collective silence of spectators:

- There is a message in the credits by the director such as "Please do not reveal the story after watching and thank you for watching" or
- It is part of the film viewing etiquettes to keep quiet after watching a suspense movie.

Either way, it makes the whole waiting process for my local screening more exciting and it creates suspense of its own kind.

I wish there was same type of collective silence on every single move that Iranians are going to make in their revolutionary Green Movement, knowing what the next move is going to be without revealing it to the enemy; to catch them off guard and hit them very hard. I am quite certain that they all know the ending but they don't tell us 'till the sweet ending arrives and gives us all the joy of a happy ending in a non-Hollywood way.