"A Separation" begins with a middle-class couple who are about to divorce, and corresponds it to another poor couple who come to their family to help. The director only omitted two scenes, and calmly constructed a simple and trivial family life story into a Hitchcock-style suspense: how did the pregnant woman who came to be a maid fall and miscarry? Did she take the owner's money? As the director moves meticulously and slowly, we see the protagonists struggling against each other, thinking there is no harm, thinking they can break free. Almost everyone is caught between the lie and the truth, as if the hero taught his daughter that she would rather offend the teacher and read the right words, but he himself lied to the judge: everyone has a good reason to tell a lie, Feeling like a victim who should be sympathized with. Under the lens of peaceful life, a breath of anxiety, doubt, calculation, and despair in the society secretly came.
"Separation" in the English title means separation and isolation. The film shows a separation between belief and modernity, a separation between the middle class and the common people, and a separation between law and morality. But the director uses the most authentic documentary style to let the audience participate in it, to experience it, and to think about it, so that it is possible to break the isolation.
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