Because there have been many movies with the same setting and similar scripts made in Europe. Arguably they were better and based on more believable stories from WW1 and WWII era.
Sorkhpoost was a good movie for Iranian standards, but let's not forget what it's pretending to be. A European prison story.
The problem with films like Sorkhpoost is the woman. She can't be herself. She can't touch men. She can't be a woman. She has to contain herself in a script that screams for sexual tension.
actually this was a very unique script compared to all prison escape films.
in this script we never even see the prisoner except for an extremely long
shot close to the end.
the director in this film is not interested in the escape and how it is done
unlike most prison escape films made before it,but the effect that is has
on it's characters.
the escape itself is just 'news' to the warden and the viewer.the director
instead masterfully explores the dual feelings of the warden.on one hand
he is a good warden who wants no escape under his rule(he is supposed
to get a promotion too which this news might just rule it out) and on the
other hand he has feelings for the prison social worker who has sympathy
for the prisoner and is actually backstabbing him.he knows if he catches
the prisoner he will lose the woman.his transformation from wanting to
catch the prisoner to the ending is beautifully told in the course of the
film.
as far as sexual tension i think it was done very tastefully.i did not expect
to see the warden and the social worker have any explicit erotic moments
in this film,that's not even plausible in a 'western' film in this situation(unless
it's a porn).but the director does give you implicit erotic moments when the
warden plays a love song while the social worker is walking out of the prison
and also when he is in civil clothing and the woman compliments him while
an airplane is taking off and we can not hear what they are saying but then
she leans over in whispers in his ears.and also in the sequence when he smells
the pen he got from the social worker.that's film making at it's zenith.
and last but not least the opening and the ending of this film is unmatched by
any iranian film.and what i like the best about this film is that mr. javidi did not try
to imitate any successful iranian directors at all.unfortunately most iranian
directors in recent years are trying to be either kiarostami or farhadi.instead
he chose to do a film with a very low budget in his own style and has created
a masterpiece that sets the bar very high for anyone to match.
now i urge you to watch the film one more time and appreciate it's beauty.