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About a month ago, I watched this gray-green, calm movie on the Internet by touching the small screen, I admit that I Tears were low, many times the tears swirled in the eye sockets, and then quietly flowed down. On Weibo, as long as someone mentions this movie, I recommend it and recommend it again. Until a few days ago, this film won the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the 84th Academy Awards, and it was finally known to the world. I feel like a stone has fallen in my heart, and I feel that this good film can be recognized by more people.
I want to go back to the night I just watched "A Farewell". The initial feeling was not to be amazed at the director's skills, techniques, and the acting skills of the hero and heroine and everyone, but to the film, that we were unfamiliar and even brought a certain A non-mainstream country with a skeptical vision, Iran, has a deep respect in his heart. Although the film is generally defined in the introduction as "showing the estrangement and conflict between the relatively wealthy and Westernized middle class of contemporary Iranian society and the less educated working class who still strictly abide by religious rules", there is no such thing as a In the context of life and society, you can read that today's Iran is definitely a normal country. Its religion and beliefs play a stabilizing role in the social order. The place is also reluctant to lie. Old and young are orderly, loving each other, and willing to help others. The overall living standard of the people is not bad, and even the degree of westernization and openness is far beyond our imagination.
This view was confirmed by my advisor, Huang Ping, director of the Institute of American Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Indeed, in the context of the demonization of Iran and other countries by Western media in the past, "A Parting" can be regarded as a "disenchantment" work, which allows us to see a story that has been misunderstood and distorted. Iran, which breathes and lives normally, has an effective and clean court, and a stable society. Like any country in the world, it is an ordinary country with all kinds of small people's joys and sorrows.
In the film, Nader and Simin are a middle-class couple, Nader works in a bank, and Simin is a teacher in a night foreign language cram school. They decide to take their children abroad and leave Iran. After finishing all the formalities, Nader was worried about his father, who was suffering from Alzheimer's disease, and decided to stay. Westminster was angry and wanted to divorce, but without the support of the court, he had to move back to his parents' house temporarily. The main line of contradictions in the whole play has surfaced. Westminster is gone, Nader has to go to work, and the child has to go to school. Who will take care of the sick old father at home? An ordinary housewife was introduced into their house. This woman, like other ordinary women in Iran, wore a black gauze and even had to call before he hesitated whether to go into the bathroom to change the diaper of the old father. Call a religious advisor to ask if you can touch other men's bodies.
The successive waves and conflicts, with the nanny's "resignation", accidental miscarriage, family claims, both parties going to court, various exploration and communication of the truth outside the court, until the final unexpected result, scene after scene, A long stream of water is presented in front of the camera. I really don't want to "spoiler" boringly, and the countless details that make your heart flutter in the softest and most delicate places can't be replaced by such trivial "spoilers". So, those who are interested, be sure to check it out. You don't need to spend a dime online. There are many resources available for download and online viewing. I also hope that someone, like me, wishes that if it can successfully enter the theaters in China, I will definitely go to make up the ticket and watch it again.
However, what impresses me the most is the lack of sensationalism in this film. In the play, there is a hidden core truth at the end that the real reason for the miscarriage of the nanny was that when he was taking care of Nader's old father, he accidentally did not close the door. The old father slipped out of the door alone and went to the newsstand across the street. linger. In order to find him, she was hit by an oncoming car... However, this detail was finally mentioned in the seemingly inadvertent, ripped-off plot and dialogue. In the movie, from the beginning to the end, there is no such "bumped" picture at all. I can almost imagine that this shot, in the hands of some directors who are pursuing tears and "effects", could have switched from various angles, superimposed various slow motions, and played back scene by scene, pulling your tears out. But not Asghar Farhadi. His other work, "Darbareye Elly," and many of the works he has made about young Iranians, are such a light touch. So much so that in "A Farewell", the only music in the whole film is played slowly in the subtitles at the end of the film.
I don't know what better way to do this than to win respect for my country with this most authentic and pristine film. I am also deeply moved by Asghar Farhadi's speech when he won the Oscar this year, he said : "When Iran is burdened with war and other criticisms in the mouths of politicians, we are here to jump over the political shadow and tell about her glorious, ancient culture. I dedicate this award to the Iranian people, to all those who respect our culture and despise our culture. People who are hostile and resentful." Every nation should be proud of its citizens, who have repaid their imperfect motherland with their talent, sincerity, and love.
Like many other netizens, I can't help but think of our movies that cost $30 million or more. Of course, I don't believe that today's China lacks a story of "faith and righteousness" like "A Farewell". Then, our era recorders, come back to life, take a serious breath, and take a serious record. Money can't make a good movie.
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