Just as "A Farewell" finally ended in "The Koran", this movie actually ended in "Tolerance". But I feel that Farhadi is not trying to discuss "tolerance", but to show a uniqueness of Islamic society. Whether it is "A Farewell" or "The Salesman", if these things happen in non-Islamic countries, there are very process solutions, but it is these extremely small and insignificant stories in life that can be solved in Iran. Seeing the big from the small, let us see a world with completely different values.
The heroine of "Salesman" faced the "poor" old man and said to her husband, "If you tell them, we will divorce", just as the woman in "A Parting" faced the collapse of the Koran several times, these two Everything is unique to the Islamic world, even puzzling. The heroine is in an unprecedented self-contradiction throughout the film. On the one hand, she is very honestly afraid of staying at home alone, and on the other hand, she is reluctant to call the police because of social pressure. Shows unreasonable sympathy for criminals. This kind of "kindness" is almost a derogatory term, because it is this kind of forbearance and so-called "kindness" that condones criminal behavior. Men's use of women's chastity not only restrains women's physical freedom, but also their spiritual freedom. Even if she defends her rights, she has to face a mountain that she cannot cross.
The old man's "confession" that seems to "shoot straight to the heart" is probably like a drug addict who says he will never smoke again in tears. But the behavior of the old man is not important, such ordinary criminals abound. But this criminal can finally get forgiveness and even sympathy from the two parties involved, which is ridiculous in Iran. People live under the multiple pressures of religion, morality, and society all the time, and cannot simply solve a simple matter. Even the very westernized intellectuals, as the pioneering artists of Iran, lectured at universities and performed on stage, they were still stuck in the face of life. This is probably the Iranian society that Farhadi wants to show. This society has a seemingly vibrant side, and even Iran's favorability in the Middle East is much higher than that in the Arab world, but it is just a good-looking skin, ideology, religious constraints, and social constraints that are truly rooted in people's hearts. Can break free overnight. Iran still has a long way to go.
Such a grand core can actually be told in a very everyday story, and I have to obey Farhadi!
One of the reasons why this film won the Oscar is probably because the judges felt that such strange values need to be remembered in the history of the film, so that younger generations know that human beings were once so stupid?
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