From the name, the movie starts and focuses on a small thing, but in fact it is also a reflection of the whole society of Iran by what happened in a family. The scenes of the story include: home, school, courtroom, the characters include teachers, children, couples with broken relationships, a father with Alzheimer's, and a family of three at the bottom. The story in the movie is completely based on an ordinary middle class, reflecting this. The problems of pension, education and husband and wife faced by people of the class also highlight the helplessness and despair of the people at the bottom.
Around the middle class, they face at least the following problems:
1. The couple’s expectations and plans for the future
The husband and wife who have lived together for more than ten years have no life-and-death promise in the period of passionate love, but only realistic plans for the future for the old and the young. When there is a huge conflict with the other half, the contradiction occurs. The heroine in the play wants to leave the country wholeheartedly, in order to allow future generations to receive better education, have more room for development, and reduce the harm that the society of this country may cause to her daughter, so she is willing to leave her homeland and her parents at all costs. And the male protagonist is out of filial piety, and will not abandon his sick and unattended old father no matter what. He did not give sufficient attention and feedback to his wife's desires and expectations. In essence, he still lacked sufficient and effective communication. As a result, his wife decided to leave and no longer fulfilled the obligations of his daughter-in-law, mother and wife.
The education of daughters
In the play, we can see that the daughter was born in the middle class, with a superior material life, kind-hearted, diligent and eager to learn, and her parents put a lot of energy into her education, and her own requirements are also very high, English Arabic and Persian, etc. studying. However, her parents' emotional breakdown gave her a huge shadow and pain in her heart. Her parents realized that when the men at the bottom came to harass her school and teachers, they felt that they were being held down, and they only hoped that their daughter would not be affected. But the daughter realized that her father had concealed the facts. The father decided to tell the truth and put the right to make a righteous decision in the hands of the daughter. The daughter also helped her father to avoid prison and lied, so she felt another huge disappointment in reality. In this chaotic family, the single-minded goal of a high-level education will surely be disturbed, and even the boundaries between good and evil will become blurred.
The issue of caring for the father
The male protagonist's father suffers from Alzheimer's disease and cannot take care of himself. On the one hand, he involved a lot of energy of the male protagonist to take care of it, which became the biggest fetter of the male protagonist's unwillingness to develop abroad; on the other hand, the male protagonist still lived in his father's house and had almost no savings. He had to work every day, so The need to find someone to take care of his father, instead of sending him to a nursing home for careful care, also reflects the social problems of the middle class with less disposable income and less social welfare, and the elderly rely on their own social problems. In the play, the male protagonist faces the pressure of the old and the small, and he is exhausted, and he needs to worry about everything. In the end, he adds mistakes, causing himself to be entangled in lawsuits, and causing even greater shaking to the originally fragile family.
4. Issues of Law and Tradition
In this play, there are accusations by both sides, and the judge has great power, but he also acts on the basis of evidence and rules, and also has the professional ability to distinguish right from wrong and investigate the truth. But to send people to prison at every turn is devastating to every vulnerable family, showing that the law is ruthless. Furthermore, the people at the bottom are very devout in their religious beliefs. They firmly believe that good and evil will be rewarded in the end, and they do not allow themselves to do anything wrong, no matter how cruel the reality is. Leaving aside the legal decision to be private, leaving aside other confrontations between men, the huge unequal status and differences between men and women, these are places that conflict with modern asymmetry and contradictions.
This play reflects several problems facing the society at present, or a microcosm of each real person. But from the perspective of people from another ethnic group, we are easily attracted by their piety, kindness, justice, what to say, diligence, and even the unique temperament of handsome boys and beautiful mushrooms. We all think that they can live better and make their smiles more charming. They still have a long way to go. I hope this process will provide some buffers for good and devout people, and minimize the damage and loss. lowest.
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