In the winter of 2012, a low-cost Iranian film was released in China. In fact, many people still don’t know the existence of this film. If it weren’t for the US$96 million large-scale production film "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" in the Chinese market, it was in the "Olympic bid." On his way, he was intercepted halfway by the small-cost film "A Farewell" of 300,000 US dollars. I believe no one knew about this movie at that time.
After all, Chinese people don’t pay much attention to Iranian films, but this film has swept through major international awards, winning the Golden Bear Award, Best Actress and Best Actor Silver Bear Award at the 61st Berlin Film Festival in 2011. The 69th Golden Globe Best Foreign Language Film and the 84th Oscar Awards Best Foreign Language Film. The movie
is still a classic in the hearts of fans all over the world. If it hadn’t won so many awards, it would be difficult for this low-cost movie to be released in China, but it’s just such a small-cost Iranian movie without even a soundtrack Loved by everyone who has won, the film currently has a Douban score of 8.7. This film is objective and true. It is about the beliefs, life and emotions of the Iranian people. The story is not too sensational, and the performance is very natural, especially open. The ending is intriguing.
Director and screenwriter Asha Fahadi is a theater-born filmmaker with a combination of directors and directors. He studied for a bachelor's degree in theater arts at the University of Tehran. His learning background in theater enables him to skillfully use theater creation He said: “First of all, I like the complexity of drama. When I make a movie, I will assume that my audience is smart enough to follow the complexity of drama writers. Starting to build a story, the tension in my movie often comes from the conflict between the characters."
So how you feel after watching "A Farewell" depends entirely on the experience of the viewer. The film directed by
is a sketch of the entire Iranian society. It indirectly reflects modernity and tradition, morality and law, honesty and lies, marriage and love, parents and children, immigration and stay-behind through a couple's divorce.
Many questions are about "parting"
"A Parting" begins with Nader and Westminster's first litigation in the divorce court, and ends with the divorce of the two in the divorce court. A complete description of the whole story of a couple's divorce At the same time, there are many details in the script. During the unfolding of the story, the divorce between the two was used as an opportunity:
Westminster moved, Nader hired part-time laborer Lazier, while in order to take care of his Alzheimer’s father. Lazier had conflicts with religion while taking care of his old father, and because of the sudden incident of Lazier's miscarriage.
Nader-Lazier-Lazier's husband Hojat...
conflicts between different classes, each character in the film is carefully set up contradictions and conflicts, rich in connotation, this It also allows the audience to interpret "A Farewell" in multiple and multiple angles.
Religious issues
Regarding religion, the film also expresses their country’s religious beliefs very well. Because of the strict religious beliefs, Iranian films are different from those of several neighboring countries. For example, Turkish films are completely European, and Russian films are popular. On the other hand, Iranian films have been influenced by Italian neorealism. They are realistic in style, simple in lens language, pursuing pure image style and simple and crisp narrative style.
Moral stories like "A Farewell" have strong Iranian national characteristics, and will only happen in countries where there are morals and beliefs. The film takes root in reality and uses a lawsuit to analyze the profound relationship between human nature, morality, religion and social class. Proposition. At the beginning of the movie, the mother Westminster said: "I don't want my children to grow up in such an environment." Judge
asked, "What kind of environment?" Westminster did not answer.
In fact, Iran is a modern country, just Islamic religious thought. The government's supervision of the literary industry is very strict. Although women have to be covered with black veil, they have the opportunity to speak freely. However, all these are produced within the government's regulations. In the
movie, Nader and Westminster’s family is a middle-class family with westernized thinking. The wife wants to emigrate, but the husband refuses because there is an elderly demented father in the family.
faced her husband, Westminster asked, "Does he still know your son?"
Nader: "He doesn’t knowMe, as long as I know he is my father. "
In fact, this seriously ill father also has a metaphor, which symbolizes the past of Iranian society, but Nader's thinking is different from that of Westminster. He has hope for his country and his father, and the suffering left by his father's generation. Their generation is also willing to bear and carry, but for the future of "such an environment", just like the open ending of the movie, no one knows.
Secondly, men and women have different inertial thinking, both sides The angle of attention and the way of solving the problem are also completely different, which brings about a gap in communication between the two sides. When Nader clashed with the part-time worker who took care of his father, Lazier had a miscarriage, and Hojat took Nader to court. She kept going to her daughter’s school to make trouble. The mother, Westminster, was worried about her daughter’s comfort and reached an agreement with Hojat, willing to compensate the money and let Hojat withdraw the lawsuit, but Nader believed that Westminster had no right to do so.
He thinks: "If I pay, it means I admit that it is my responsibility and they will not let us go! "
In fact, two people seem to be discussing the same issue, but Westminster believes that the question of whether Nader caused others to miscarriage is not important at all. The important thing is the safety of the daughter. On the other hand, Nader believes that once the same compensation is paid, it is to himself Insulting, I am afraid that the other party will pester himself. So Nader will not let Westminster carry a daughter, based on the same idea: "I don't want her to learn from you as a coward, every time someone yells you are afraid, he knows This trick is used by everyone, why doesn't he threaten me? "
Nader denied that he caused others to have a miscarriage, and in turn accused the maid of tying his father to the bed and going out privately. Once the evidence is conclusive, the maid family will also face jail. In this way, the two sides hold the same word. Fierce confrontation broke out between.
finally dropped the complaint for sympathy with the maids’ family, and at the same time compensated them a large amount of money.
, but the only requirement was to ask her to swear by the Quran and face the " The Qur'an maid did not dare to lie and told the truth: her miscarriage was caused by a car accident, and the car accident was caused by her going to the street to find Nader’s lost father. After the truth was revealed, everyone’s life was restored, but "Farewell" will eventually come. In the end, Nader and Westminster came to the court to divorce again. The film ended with a piano sound. The director gave the audience the right to choose with an open ending...
Although the truth is finally revealed, But what is left to the parties is still an unsolvable life. As a representative of the hardliners, Nader insists on truth, principles, fairness and justice. No matter how much pressure he faces, he will not compromise unless the other party can find a rigorous one. Evidence, he does not want to abandon history, nor does he want to abandon the future.
and Westminster is a representative of the Compromisers. She wants balance and stability. When faced with problems, she will choose the solution to make herself happy. It does not matter who is right and who is wrong. The important thing is to change the current state as soon as possible to avoid getting into greater trouble. No matter which country or nation in the world, everyone will have the freedom of their own choice. Everyone will make any effort to pursue happiness. There is nothing wrong with the struggle. What this Iranian director wants to express is the reality of the society. At the same time, he also used a movie to shatter the world's assumptions about Iran's spiritual and cultural backwardness.
How happy it is to have faith!
don't know how to describe this feeling, this is probably "no sense"!
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