The furthest distance in the world is when we are separated by air, but we can't hear each other breathing.

The emotional climax started when Lucy and Ahmed talked about her mother's fiancé with an emotional breakdown. Halfway through the plot, it is discovered that Ahmed, who opened up Lucy's heart, is not her biological father, but one of her mother's ex-husbands. Of course, the result of Harty’s movie is only "random". The open narrative of "A Farewell" makes his movie seem to never reach the end. For him, the movie is just a scene, not the essence of problem solving. The truth is not in the direction he wants. You can think that a mother who has put her married life into a mess is not worthy of her daughter’s understanding, or a man who has left his sick wife to live with another woman is a scum, but it seems that Ahmed, the moral judge, also They did not end up innocent. The characters were caught in a dilemma again and again in the process of adjusting the pieces again and again, which is the process of getting closer to the truth. As for the cultural conflict between the West and Islam, it was completely reduced to a background trapped in "accent" and expressions. The layered narrative rhythm is very similar to "A Farewell", but the sharp and accurate emotional pain points are far away. I even believe that "A Farewell" is Fahati's babble during half a dream, which cannot be copied. Or we are all greedy movie viewers, a simple story is not enough to feed, if the culture, religion, gender and all kinds of spices are downplayed, we refuse to swallow it. As at the beginning, Maria and Ahmed communicated completely silently through the glass.
The furthest distance in the world is when we are separated by air, but we can't hear each other breathing.

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