It can be seen that the overall style of Director Farhati should be based on the neo-realistic narrative. The true pursuit of life, the grasp and use of details, and the training of actors’ performances are all based on realism. of. Scheduling and mirroring are very smooth, there is no obvious stylization, and no very technical means are used, but occasionally hand-held lens shooting is used to increase the realism of the story.
What I admire most is the director's polishing of the script. Whether it is "A Farewell" or "Salesman", the presentation of the script, the establishment of the character's personality, and the story line are very sophisticated, and they will not appear too fragmented and become a chattering narrative; nor can they be simplified or simplified. The establishment of hidden characters’ motivations, as a whole, his grasp of storytelling and conflicts appear to be very friendly to the audience. There will be no such thing as director Cheng Er said in the "Romantic Demise", "This is a film for people in the next century." "The awkward feeling. From this perspective, it can be seen that the director is a person who talks or argues better than performance. He wants to output a value rather than an emotion.
I have only watched these two films of Fahadi, but from these two films, I can also outline the portrait of the director. He is probably a middle-class, literate man, with high literary literacy, but he is not lacking in rationality. When he is in an Iranian society where religion and secularization coexist and there is no mutual oppression, he may always feel incompatible. On the one hand, the middle class can ensure that they have a better quality of life. After solving the problem of food and clothing, they can Further pursuing the perfection of the spiritual world, he is inevitably influenced by Western popular culture and Western values; but on the other hand, due to his own background and understanding and understanding of the bottom, he can also feel that Iran is secularized In the process, the conflicts between modern Western civilization and traditional values brought about all kinds of fragmentation and pain. Powerful religion and social secular ethics made him subconsciously identify with them, but his pursuit of self-worth and recognition of personal value made it difficult for him to accept the various constraints and ethics of traditional secular society.
In the movie, her husband Yin Mede teaches cultural classes and is a representative of the middle class and the Iranian cultural class. When he encountered the incident of his wife being sexually assaulted, on the one hand, he was able to understand and consider his wife Lena's various reactions after suffering the scourge, and there was no outburst of male chauvinism, venting his anger on the woman who had lost her virginity. But on the other hand, when he heard Rena used her client's money to make food, he couldn't help being nauseous and instinctively disgusted with the humiliation and humiliation. His first reaction was Western-style, to hold accountable and solve the case through the formal means of the police; when he encountered the cold reception of his wife, he could understand and agree with the point of view that he hoped that things would pass and return to a normal life trajectory. But the performance of anger at school exposed the true thoughts in his heart.
I can understand Rena's position and thoughts. She knows the reality of Iranian society, and she is afraid of neighbours making irresponsible remarks, she is afraid of all eyesight, and hopes that things will pass sooner. After experiencing unacceptable stages of struggle and pain, she overcame the shackles of traditional ethics with the concept of modern civilization, hoping to forget the past and rebuild the future. The arrival of the children not only represents her desire and vision for a new life, but also a shift in her focus. But her husband Yin Maide's performance after being humiliated made her watch her and her husband get deeper and deeper and more entangled in this story of secular revenge, which eventually led to a tiring and helpless situation. Her forgiveness was not really forgiving, but just letting go of herself, letting go of this incident, and wanting to forget these painful manifestations as soon as possible.
The husband’s revenge encounters the setting of a loyal husband who is obsessed with his heart for a while, as if he punched the cotton, depressed and vomiting blood, but had nowhere to vent his resentment. Previously, when my husband checked the phone recordings, he found that the troupe’s boss was cheating and prostitution. Later, he found the perpetrator and found that an honest and loyal husband was also prostitutes and cheating. Whether it is a middle-class man or a low-level man, it is inevitable that they will become derailed. Iranian men not only have a very strong desire to control women's chastity, but they also continue to derail and infidelity in reality, which reflects the fragmentation of Iranian society in secularization and religious conflict. The traditional values can no longer be recognized by these men, but the values of Western civilization cannot penetrate into their bones and blood, so the bakery owner will be very worried about failure and a heart attack in the end, and Yin Maide also cried resentfully.
The setting of the play in the play, on the one hand, provides an outlet for the husband’s emotions, on the other hand, it may show the protagonist’s dilemma, but it feels that there is no intertextuality with the story. The irony of the character to the prostitute was established in the front, just to bring out the absent person in the small room at the back. The personality of the girl in the red dress is too functional and has no great value. At first, I thought it was the girl in red that was the prostitute, who had a relationship with the director and lived there with the child. But the children's performance seems to negate this. What is the critical performance of setting a beauty-loving woman to lead a baby as a prostitute? What is the value? Did not make it clear. Other neighbors, students’ personal settings are also reduced to functional characters, there is no way to have enough influence when the protagonist’s mood changes and behavior changes.
The image of the mirror has appeared several times, which should imply the moral dilemma of the character. The character is trapped in the self and it is difficult to come out. The cracked building and the demolition also symbolize the conflict between tradition and modernity, the conflict between the new and the old, but I haven't seen more content. Generally speaking, because the story is too strong and the contradictions are too obvious, it is difficult for me to give more expectations. In addition, from the beginning of "A Farewell", I felt that Fahati liked to establish a strong motivation at the beginning, and then set a strong motivation for a character in this motivation. "A Farewell" is the opening divorce, with the nanny falling down in the middle. "Salesman" is the opening set for the demolition of a new house, with rape or sexual assault in the middle. This kind of setting is good or bad. Too strong contradictions and conflicts will weaken the charm of the story, weaken the flashing of the characters' arc, and reduce the expectation of the follow-up plot. But from another perspective, it is also customer-friendly. Tell you what happens anyway, you will build a good biography on your own, set up the story in your mind, if there is a flip, it will appear to have a greater impact.
The performance part is very exciting, no problem. Just one thing I want to say, Iranian beauties are so beautiful, so beautiful, especially the heroine, too much like Tong Liya, there is a feeling that Yang Rong and Tong Liya fit together.
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