Whether it is the movie "Little Shoes" and the novel "The Kite Runner", Iranian literary and artistic works always have tears. This year's Oscar's best foreign language film has thrown away tears and faced thinking.
The protagonist of the story is not a salesman, his job is a drama actor, but he plays the role of a salesman in "Death of a Salesman". I thought Willie in Push was a double loser—a failed salesman and a failed father. If Willie is put on the hero Amed, he is also a failure - a little actor who is unknown, and a husband who is estranged from his wife. So he is a "salesman" in reality, and he gradually loses himself in and out of the play.
A man, a failed man, dignity is as important to him as life, especially when his wife is violated by other men. This pursuit and protection of male dignity may not be so prominent in ordinary secular society, but in a country where the state and religion are unified, it will appear abrupt. Under the double squeeze of secular and religious concepts, this sense of dignity takes a man from mild-mannered to extremes and lack of morality, and magnifies his own frustration.
Vengeance because of dignity or further loss of dignity because of revenge, I think everyone has their own answer. But after revenge, he didn't get the pleasure he had expected, but he further lost his lover's heart. This kind of failed revenge, like a man's failed life, is not free under the "name of freedom". It's the same way the characters in "Death of a Salesman" shout "Free, free." People pursue a dignified and dignified life, but they don’t know what dignity and decency are, because everyone regards this kind of life as a kind of programmed thing, and the indiscrimination between people is like a product on an assembly line. cookie-cutter, self-righteous, self-righteous. Inferiority under extreme self-esteem is because human freedom is locked in a fixed space. This lack of freedom reflects the current situation of the entire Iranian society in the director's eyes, and it is also a standard answer given by an Iranian film director under Western values.
From this perspective, this is indeed a Western-style "politically correct" movie. But from my personal viewing point of view, I don't want to see an American-style movie wearing an Iranian flag, because what I see is what you want to show me, because it seems too hypocritical.
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