A male teacher tried to embarrass his wife who was accidentally injured in a decent intellectual way, but under multiple constraints, he reversed his active and passive relationship with the culprit. His wish failed, and he eventually lost his wife's love.
Asghar Farhadi's films often depict the "dilemma" of human nature in the face of morality through "Iranian broken families", and the result is often a black tragedy of "good and evil". Most of the characters are not absolutely right or wrong. Whether the choice made by the protagonist is correct, the audience is also in a dilemma and cannot be conclusive.
The two-line narrative of this film, one is the protagonist and his wife rehearsing the drama "Death of a Salesman", and the other is the protagonist's pursuit of his wife's attack after moving. The salesman who overestimates himself in the play is exactly the same as the male teacher who overestimates himself in reality. Farhadi used the way of the literati to make the literati's poverty so clear and subtle.
Husbands and wives sit next to each other, but they are ruthless like cows. The reason is probably hidden in the phrase "Worryless Words" in class: "How did people become cows?" - Over time. "
Dismantling:
Theme idea: Letting go is a better choice than revenge, because a single-minded revenge will cost you three thousand.
Narrative Structure: Positive Narration
Character settings:
① male teacher, ② wife, ③ peeping old man,
Functional characters:
①Theatrical leader (causing the beginning: introducing a new home),
②The original tenant female (unidentified character: creating suspense, promoting development, and a character drawn through descriptions and props)
③ Peeping on the old man's son-in-law (smoke bomb, false target: set up obstacles on the way to the truth)
④ Peeping on the family of the elderly
Inciting Incident: Wife was injured and terrified when she was spied on by trespassers after moving to a new house.
A dilemma: if the real culprit is caught, should the male teacher pursue it to the end?
【want】
1 The wife was injured, and the murderer knew the crime, but he should be beaten
2 The murderer is stealing, but it should be corrected
【do not want】
1 The murderer entered the room by mistake
2 The murderer is old and sick
3 Wife gives up accountability
4 The murderer did not know, the male protagonist of Kochi and his wife were unwilling to break the harmony of each other's family
The climax of the incident: (the ultimate choice of the protagonist in the dilemma) The male protagonist and the murderer are alone in a room, one punch to relieve the hatred, or to hand over the murderer's stealing evidence to his family in disguise, resulting in the murderer's sudden death, but the other's family will never know the truth.
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