is actually not that outstanding.
"Marriage Life", "Revolutionary Past", and "Perfect Stranger" are all excellent works to describe married life. Whether it is from the relationship between husband and wife or from social relationship, the angle of selection of these films is very good, and the degree of completion is also very good. , Which leads to the fact that it is difficult to speak new ideas on this topic.
's "Marriage Story", which was recently hit by the fire, is also well shot, but you have to taste it carefully, and you will find that it is about the relationship between husband and wife, discussing what we should do in marriage, what role we should play, and so on. Without jumping out of the family framework of marriage, this kind of story setting has an advantage, which is to create a cramped sense of space and create tension, but the disadvantage is also obvious: the pattern becomes smaller.
Excellent small-format movies pay attention to drama conflicts. When and what to do, they are all set. Every minute and every second in the movie is very important, even for literary films, such as "Marriage Films such as "Story" also leave most of the time for quarrels between the protagonists to strengthen their style, because there are so many things you want to talk about, and you have plenty of space to use, so small patterns tend to be particularly creative. s work. The tension of the small pattern of
is obtained by compressing the space.
But once the pattern is opened, the tension is diluted.
"A Farewell" is a "diluted" work.
As a country of faith, Iran should be regarded as a controversial country. It is located in the Middle East. The first time I learned about the Middle East was in "The Kite Chaser". From the peaceful years before the Afghan Revolutionary Army's insurrection, I have seen the fragmented war years. In just a few decades, the vicissitudes of life, the vicissitudes of life, the cruelty of war Depriving too many people of the right to live, it also keeps this place in the shadow forever.
And Iran is a neighboring country of Afghanistan.
They have common beliefs and common customs. These things are the roots of the Middle East. You cannot bypass it to tell the story of this place. The reverse is also true. The stories on this land cannot exist alone without faith.
The 18 years of "The Breadwinner" and "Humiliation", one talks about Afghanistan and the other talks about Lebanon. They all start from trivial things, and slowly link up with the contradictions in the general environment, bringing out sections of dusty scars. These The story is that the mine is buried under the ground. It may not be seen now. When people step on it, everything is too late. The same is true of "A Farewell", which uses a simple marriage story to tell the dogmatic social system of the Middle East.
is a country that is extremely dependent on religion. Iran’s social rules consist of two parts, one is legal provisions, and the other is religious dogma. One represents progress and the other represents tradition. These two seemingly contradictory terms Putting them together, they form Iran, and the theme of "A Farewell" is also this kind of contradiction. On the surface, it looks like it is telling a marriage story, but in fact, most of what it wants to tell is outside marriage. Some things. The
film concentrates on the marriage relationship in three parts. One is at the beginning. The male and female protagonists are sitting together and the judge is in front of the judge. The two discuss divorce, but they disagree and break up. The second is the hourly worker hospitalization. When the two came to the hospital together, the third time was at the end. After the two divorced, when the child chose whom to live with, the two sat together again. These three fragments of
say they talk about marriage relationships, but they don’t make it clear. They only tell us a certain stage of marriage, but they don’t explain how such a transition will affect the marriage relationship. In fact, if If you continue to look back, you will find that the appearance of these fragments is actually completely service-oriented. Their function is not to clearly show the essence of this marriage, but to show the essence of society, as I said before. : Let’s talk about things outside of marriage.
This is also the reason why the film pattern is big.
In a simple quarrel in "Humiliation", hidden behind it are contradictions and conflicts that are difficult to calm. These films did not tell at first, but as the story tells later, the conflict gradually became clear. What "Farewell" wanted to pursue, This is also the effect.
The contradiction here is no longer a dispute, but a physical contradiction. The hero acceptsDue to an impulse, De pushed down the part-time job, causing the latter to fall and have a miscarriage. His family came to ask for justice. Nader was accused of murder. The two families became incompatible with fire and water because of such an accident. , All the contradictions are revealed.
On the surface, this may be just an ordinary dispute. This kind of thing is occasionally seen around us, but in fact it is not that simple, and the film does not stop there. When Zhongdiangong appealed to the court, It is already telling us that all the details of this contradiction will be completely exposed under the sun. Only by seeing those details will we know the complexity of this case.
has a few details in the movie that are very interesting: when Zhongdiangong brought her daughter to the home of the protagonist Nader for the first time, the daughter hugged her mother’s belly, but did not hear the fetus playing; later, Nader’s Father urinated his pants. The hourly worker was afraid to change his pants for fear of violating the precepts, so he could only change it by himself; the hourly worker was hit by a car in his stomach in order to chase the old man who sneaked out; the hourly worker called the doctor and got pregnant. The matter was told to the tutor, Nader overheard the conversation between the hourly worker and the teacher... and so on. The above details of
are very detailed. Some occurred before the hourly abortion, and some were told after the protagonist told us. These details make the whole story intricate and complicated, and also make the whole story entangled by two words, one It is the precepts, and the other is the Quran.
Two scenes where I was impressed with the "Quran", one was when the hourly worker's husband asked the tutor to swear to his testimony (to the "Quran"), and the other was when the hourly worker himself was about to swear to the "Quran" The reason why these two scenes impressed me is mainly because they are the two turning points of the story.
"The Koran" is a classic of Islam, and its status is equivalent to the Christian "Bible". The status can be seen. To swear to the "Quran" means to swear to your faith. Every word you say will be God's test. In a country of faith, such an oath is very important.
The precepts in the "Quran" require some differences and rules between men and women in dress and behavior. Therefore, at the beginning of the film, the hourly union did not change clothes for the elderly because they were worried about breaking the precepts; Nader’s daughter would also be exposed to the public. Panic and being pointed, these are unavoidable things, especially in a society with such strict dogma.
Here, there is no concept of equality and inequality between men and women, only whether you can, and whether you should, naturally there is no discrimination, because in this kind of society, they think you should do it, and you can only do it: obey the precepts , Wrap the gauze tightly, there are differences between men and women, and there is no lie in front of the Quran, so everything you say is the truth. Is
really like this?
I don't think so. Even before the "Quran", there were lies. The most vivid segment of
comes from the testimony of the tutor I mentioned earlier. When the hourly husband asked her to swear, she did not know that her testimony was false, so she gave false testimony. Although it was unintentional, perjury is perjury and can never change the original nature, so she finally lied.
is a very ironic clip. Just like Nader and the hourly worker each had a ghost, they both concealed part of the truth and did not tell the truth before the judge. In this country of faith, there are actually countless lies behind the scenes, especially when When Nader hopes that his daughter has become part of the lie, it means that the lie will never be forgiven and will be passed on forever. Up to this point, it is the cruelest and most pathetic fragment. The
tension is also diluted because of this. When the conflict is sandwiched between the two and squeezed back and forth, what is left is not the conflict, but the opposing two.
Nader is like Iran sandwiched between the past and the present, full of struggling with life. Here, there is kindness and hypocrisy; there is justice and bias. This is what "A Farewell" talks about. The state of struggling, sadly, the more struggling, the deeper the sinking, and in the end, it may never come out.
