 Also, they have encouraged a generation of young Iranians to rethink the war and revolutionary values in general.His ability to translate an American film scenario for an Iranian audience and make it look like the Iran-Iraq war points to the
universality of war, is an issue which overlooked by film critics.However "The Glass Agency" (1998) was dismissed by American critics as nothing more than an attempt to make an Iranian version of "Dog Day Afternoon" (Sidney Lumet, 1975), Hatamikia went on to make other imitations, like "The Red Ribbon" (1999), which looks a lot like "The English Patient" (Anthony Minghella, 1996).