At the beginning of the film, the director left this suspense. When the judge asked Westminster what was wrong here, Westminster did not answer. When the judge asked whether it was better for the children to live with their parents here or go abroad to live as a single-parent family, the answer It seems obvious-seeing this, the audience will even feel that Westminster is inhumane, her husband is a good husband, her daughter is a good daughter, but she wants to break up a good family. At the end of the film, when the couple was waiting in the court corridor for their daughter's decision, I, as the audience, was at a loss as to whether to stay or leave, and the answer was no longer so clear.
Because this may not really be a good living environment.
Conflicts between the poor and the middle class are everywhere, ranging from misunderstandings about moving the piano to an extra floor, to disagreements in court. We can see that the poor class is powerless, as Hodjat said, I am not as articulate as you, that is to say, the right to speak is entirely on the side of the elite, and because of this, they must always be wary of these people who arm themselves with knowledge Unite to bully yourself, which is why Hodjat completely distrusts the governess. But the elites are also powerless. For a compensation equivalent to RMB 130,000, they have to sell a car. In order to avoid prison, they even have to take out their real estate as a guarantee. This is an economic embarrassment. In the confrontation with the poor class, their opponents have only one bad life, so they always feel insecure about being targeted by terrorists.
When living conditions are bad, beliefs and morals are unreliable. Nader has always tried to be a good example to his daughter, teaching her to be strong and have the courage to fight the world, but once his life was threatened, he was still cowardly, he lost the courage to face the truth and lied . Hodjat is proud of his religion. The Koran was his magic weapon when he went to the governess to make trouble, but in the end, facing the pressure of debt, his beliefs could no longer stop him from acting contrary to the canon.
Stay or leave? The director uses a realistic photography method to put the audience into the story, and to appreciate the difficulty of people's choices in the play. $300,000 investment, handheld photography, sensitive topics, passed strict Iranian film censorship, but let people all over the world know what he wanted to say.
At least I don't have such a hard time choosing between going to the cinema to see a bad movie and watching a good one like this at home.
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