blackboard be at it best when consider a dreamy and surreal take on real world issue . it a shame though that the film style doesn not match it content if it have then it could have be truly affect and memorable . a it be and it pair the visual and conceptual silliness of men run around with blackboard strap to them and and the visual and conceptual non silliness of innocent meet trouble on the hill of the iran or iraq border and which confuse the message . further and shoot the otherwise farcical adventure of the blackboaders in the ( ever popular ) faux documentary realism style undermines samira makhmalmaf attempt to consider issue such a imprisonment and gender equality and education and communication and which be all jumble around in the text fairly loosely and and not in the regimented way the style would have enhance . not only be these issue trample on by the blackboarders and but the character be not exactly equip with the faculty to make them engage for 85 minute . they be moronic and moribund individual and trap on empty endless hillside or engulf in smoke which might as well be a metaphor for their foresight . they be not interesting . the trouble be it unclear whether the director be mock them or pity them . one assume the former and but unfortunately the message be and like the writing on the board and incomplete .