This Iranian film is destined to be included in film history. During the viewing process, it reminded me of "Marriage Story". After watching the film, I savored the details carefully, and felt that "Marriage Story" is far inferior to the meaning of "A Parting". Rich. This film contains too many implicit texts, marriage relationship, class relationship, religious and secular relationship, parent-child relationship, social system and individual relationship, and more importantly, the film presents human nature in the details of daily life depth. The difficulty is here, using the calmest lens language to stare into the abyss of people's hearts.
The division of national boundaries and differences in cultural traditions lead to different daily life experiences in this world. We can see different life scenes in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and the United States at the same time in the camera. However, in these life situations, the cultural form of individual survival in the region is always only the surface, and what art needs to present is the human nature behind the cultural appearance. Therefore, in "A Parting", we see the strong religious atmosphere unique to Iran, and the sacred religious space shrouds individual life. The absolute estrangement between heterosexual bodies, the tension between religious issues and moral redemption, when Reitz struggled with whether to wipe the body of the protagonist's father, who wets his pants, she was tortured by realistic morality and at the same time. The discipline of religious precepts can only be turned to professional religious personnel. One of the reasons why the movie shocks the audience is that it shows us the huge difference between the daily life of individuals in a religious country in modern society and the daily experience of a non-religious country. This difference is not only caused by whether there is religious belief, but also It is under the immersion of religion, the various "abnormalization" of real human nature in non-religious countries, and tension arises from this.
We thought it was not a problem. In "A Parting", it became a huge problem that individuals could not bear. The physical contact of servants when serving sick subjects was not a problem to us. For Reitz, it was a problem with religion. and the betrayal of her husband. In order to protect our own interests, we often use lies as a means of protecting ourselves, which seems to be no problem. For Reitz, Nader, and Simin, it is an unbearable sin. They do everything possible to maintain a balance in their lives and hope that their daily life can move forward along the established trajectory. However, life is always full of detritus and troubles, and the trivial matter of mustard beans is tortured by the soul and morality, which is enough to make life disorderly and become extremely embarrassing.
At the beginning of the film, Nader and Simin are struggling in a broken marriage. Marriage is always a tug of war. Divorce is the trigger point of the film's narrative, and it is also the film's ending point. In order to complete such a "separation", how much energy was expended, as if struggling in the mud for centuries, the succession of accidents completely shattered the possibility of the couple getting back together. The appearance of Reitz gradually pushes the film to a climax, and a broken family enters an unexpected visitor. Reitz's accidental miscarriage has become a testing ground for human nature. The conceptual opposition, the gap between religion and reality brought about by class differences has become a constant inquiry into the individual's mind. There is not a single villain in the film, everyone is a good person in his circle. The sublime part of the tragedy is that no villain does evil from it. Become a difficult moral test, every step is extremely difficult.
The film contains a lot of details that can be analyzed in depth, which may eventually lead to philosophical questions about human existence. The fate of the characters in "A Farewell" is the common dilemma of human beings. The ordinary and trivial real life, the embarrassing situation, and the small and real moral dilemma we face all the time are all trapping us. Struggling in the world is a long parting.
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