9.11 (a special anniversary) I watched the movie at Che Lisi Space in Shenzhen: From a micro level, this is a story about two Iranian families, but from a macro perspective, this is a story about Iranian society that is fully realistic story. Because it is too realistic, you can connect many angles to analyze the details of the film.
The main external conflict in the film exists between the two families with employment relationship, and the main internal conflict exists in the two families with different rich and poor. The internal and external contradictions are sharply and realistically portrayed, and behind the scenes, we can see the influence of Iranian religious beliefs and social customs on the two families.
The family is at a very micro level, but the small becomes the big one, which reflects the many conflicts and acute problems behind the Iranian society: family relations, family education, pension issues, and religious and moral issues in Iranian families where Shiite Islam is the mainstream. , as well as the macro-social level, the gap between the rich and the poor, women's rights and so on. Aside from the family, there are also issues of individualism: in the war-prone Middle East region, whether to choose to be or not to be, to leave or to stay, to resist or to compromise. (This point is rather obscure, and can be considered in conjunction with the Iranian animated film "I grew up in Iran")
The story ends with an open ending. I think I can also understand the director's intentions. Because contradictions and contradictions with deeper meanings may be unresolved in a short period of time. The tastes of life, the miscellaneous grains, the joys and sorrows of separation and reunion that it brings are unavoidable and must be endured. Exactly how the story will unfold also arouses people's deep thinking about the society and life in Iran and surrounding areas in the Middle East.
After watching the movie, I had a lot of chats with a few friends who stayed to discuss the couple’s handling of conflicts in the employer’s family. Innocent, but in the face of legal investigation, he chooses to lie and conceal clues that are unfavorable to himself and his family; one chooses not to face the problem directly, and uses money to indirectly compromise to resolve the conflict between the two parties, and minimize the major issues, but still take the facts as the benchmark. We all shared our opinions (like a debate match) and disagreed. There were people on both sides.
And I think the problem actually happened from the beginning. If at the beginning, everyone is honest, respects the facts (this is required by the Islamic faith and is also a universal value), respects and is friendly to each other, communicates ok, and the society is also friendly to women, and the status of men and women in family relations is more equal and harmonious If so, the male and female protagonists would not be so stiff because of disagreements, and the pregnant woman who was hired would not deliberately conceal the truth of her pregnancy and miscarriage because of fear and fear, and why the male protagonist's father was tied up while he was sleeping. the truth.
In fact, behind the family problems are far-reaching social problems. Just because society is not perfect, people's morals are not perfect, and the water is clear, there are no fish, we can't believe it should be like this. Truth, goodness and beauty exist in the hearts of people. How people choose is relatively free, which also corresponds to the cause and effect of Buddhism.
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