It is from the same director as the film "A Parting", which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film last time.
Personally, I prefer "A Farewell", I think it covers all human emotions and conflicts: country, government, Muslim intellectuals, cultural conflicts, family, husband and wife, parents and children, poor and rich, love, helplessness, deception, kindness, etc. ...really a great movie.
But the film feels a little too hard on the subject of Muslims. The heroine's carelessness is certainly wrong, but the price paid by the heroine is too great for a female Muslim who will feel unchaste when other men see her hair. Not only does she suffer from mild PTSD, but she also has "sympathy" from someone in the know -- a constant reminder of the pain and shame of that night, as well as the shame of being humiliated by her husband , in the end, he may even feel guilty because his husband caused the bad guy who had hurt him to have a heart attack... If the director wanted to use this to complain about the unfair treatment of Muslim women, he did it.
But are there only issues of gender inequality and patriarchal ideology in Muslim countries? Obviously more than that.
I'm a little disappointed that I can't write.
Maybe it's my expectations for Iranian films that are too high.
View more about The Salesman reviews
