Abbas has always liked in-car shots, and most of his works will have a large number of in-car scenes. And this film seems to be a piece of play (pure speculation) that Abbas shot to satisfy his own habit. But for Abbas, even if he plays, he has to play with depth and criticism.
From the beginning to the end of the film, there are two fixed shots from the inside of the car. It records ten conversations between a middle-class divorced woman and friends, relatives, and strangers who ride in her private car in her life.
1. The hostess talks to her ten-year-old son about her new husband, but the son is firmly opposed to seeing the stepfather, because the stepfather is not the real father. The female driver tried to persuade her son's prejudice, but the excited son finally got out of the car angrily.
2. The hostess and the sister talked about each other's children's education and the sister told the female driver to let her son live with his biological father at ease, because men have more common interests.
3. The hostess caught up with an old lady who was going to the mausoleum to pray for others. The old lady lost her husband and daughter. She didn't want others to suffer the same suffering, so she prayed for strangers and gifted her daily necessities to an old man with 12 children.
4. The hostess carried a drunk prostitute. The female driver asked the prostitute why she took this road, with contempt in her tone. They discussed the topic of sex and freedom. The prostitutes said that they had loved men, but after losing their love, they found that Ye Ye Shengge might be better.
5. The hostess carried a strange woman. The woman said that she loved a man, but the man was hesitant to get married. This made her very distressed. She has been waiting for her boyfriend's reply. She thinks this is the arrangement of fate, everything will be There is a fixed number, but it is only a matter of time. She always believes that happiness will eventually come, and for this she will pray regularly.
6. The hostess catches up with her son again, and this time they talked about her son's stepmother. The son said that his stepmother is very family-friendly, can cook and do housework, and stay at home when everything is fine. Unlike my mother, who is always busy, works a lot and has very little time at home.
7. The heroine carried a female friend of her own. The woman cried bitterly because of a broken love. The female driver continued to comfort her, saying that women always depended on others, when they were young, they depended on their parents, and when they grew up, they depended on men. The big breasts and hips are the label of a woman, and a woman lives without self.
8. The hostess carried her son, and the son complained that the mother who picked him up was late without telling him the reason, and complained that the mother always ignored the family because of work. When the mother planned to live with her son at grandma's house, the son said that he did not want to live with his mother and got out of the car angrily.
9. The hostess caught up with the woman who had been waiting for her boyfriend to reply before. The woman discovered that her boyfriend hesitated to get married because she had another woman. This was so similar to the experience of a prostitute before, so she had her hair cut to resist this fucking masculine world.
10. The heroine catches up with her son, and the film ends.
Family, affection, faith, life and death, sex, patriarchy, feminist rights, and the inefficiency of conversation, Abbas used simple images to explore and show the life of ordinary people.
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