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Previously, my exposure to Iranian films was limited to "Little Shoes" I watched in junior high school. At that time, the term Iran was not as sensitive as it is now. Movies from places we can't get to in this lifetime are the best way to learn about them. To be honest, if it weren't for such a realistic movie, I would have thought ignorantly how hot the people of that country were, and thought that there were blown up car wrecks or bomb craters everywhere. In fact, under the tension created by the politicians, their days are as dull as ours: the same goes to work and school, the same medical treatment, the same disputes, a middle-class family can afford two cars and a carer, but also suffer from accidents and accidents. trouble. As the film is generally presented, it only touches on the sensitive parts (otherwise it won't pass the censorship), but even that leaves us with a lot to think about and compare: honesty and lies, morality and law, religion and Belief...
Once upon a time, Zhang Yimou also made shocking, realistic films under the so-called strict censorship system ("The Lawsuit of Qiu Ju", "No One Can Be Missed", etc.), not now, Spend money on an absolutely international production team and blindly pursue visual effects. As Lao Mouzi himself realized, since the Olympics, every one of his works has been shot as dazzlingly as the opening ceremony of the Olympics, but none of them have a good story.
The story begins when the hero and heroine want to divorce. The reason for the divorce is that Westminster wants to take the children abroad to get a better education and start a better life, while Nader is unwilling to leave because he has to take care of his dementia-stricken father. Simin moved out of the house. In order not to affect his work, Nader had to hire a carer. If the Nader family represents the living standard of the middle class in Iran, the carer family comes from the bottom. In order to prevent the dementia-stricken father from walking around, the nurse tied him to the bed, locked the door, and went out to see a doctor. Nader, who went home early, saw the scene and kicked the carer out of the house, who was pushed up the stairs and miscarried. Nader was charged with murder.
In front of the judge, the two families staged a "Rashomon", each holding their own words. As the story progresses, we can find out that everyone has lied. Nader lied that he did not know the carer was pregnant, when in fact he did hear the conversation between the carer and the tutor. Westminster didn't really plan to leave the family either. The nurse actually knew that the reason for her miscarriage was not Nader's push, but that she was hit by a car in pursuit of Nader's father. She hopes the settlement will lose money to help her husband pay off his debts. In the end, even Te Mei, who has always played the role of an outsider, also lied against morality in front of the judge, so that she could help her father get out of the crime.
If you put the whole story in a country without faith, it's just an ordinary thing. Let me ask who didn't tell a little lie for their own benefit. Besides, for a family like Nader, the compensation for this accident is only the price of selling one of the cars, but for the carer’s family, it can pay off all the debts, and the quality of life has changed since then. But for a person of faith, the binding force seems to be that there is an invisible person who has been watching your every move. For example, when a nurse was about to bathe an elderly person with dementia for the first time, she mysteriously took out her phone book and called someone to ask if it was okay to take a bath for a man in such an emergency. She only went into the toilet after the other party's permission. And when Nader proposed to her to swear to the Quran, a lie, she knew that it was obviously tens of thousands of times more serious than "bathing for men", and she didn't need to ask, she knew it was not allowed, and she saw Her expression, this situation challenged her limits and made her collapse.
Faith is actually the standard of behavior. Without belief, there is no standard, no limit, and no collapse. When there is no faith, sometimes the standard is one's own conscience. We would say that doing so would be conscientious and guilty. To put it bluntly, you didn't let yourself go. You found a number, called yourself, and asked yourself if I can do this. We sometimes say that there will be retribution for him like this. At this time, we also assumed that the invisible person, assuming that he observed the every move of the people here, he helped us judge what is OK and what is not allowed. And if there is no right or wrong standard in a place, and the people there have buried their conscience, then there is something that cannot be done there, and it is not allowed, and there is no "phone" to make.
I just wish, where I live, there is a "phone" to make.
In the end, although Nader was saved from prison in the murder case, the family that could have been reunited, after such a toss, really built a "glass wall" between each other. It is said that it is the director's daughter who plays the special eyebrows, and the little girl's acting skills are awesome!

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