What is with these Iranian films which question the modern aesthetics of film making? They seem to question us unintentionally, but as a movie lover, it’s hard to ignore them. Asghar Farhadi’s ‘A Separation’ which won the ‘Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film’ amidst ‘The Artist’ which was rewarded for being silent and ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ was victim of bad luck.
The film starts with passport and visa documents getting scanned and later a still shot of two couple who are in the front of a judge arguing about divorce. Later we are presented with an old man who needs help, a daughter who is in the middle of her parents who have applied for divorce and a simplistically simple plot.
The screenplay of the film is brutally honest and it dips the viewer into the plot with ease with series of conversations, accusations and emotional reasoning. The reference of religion, the trauma of the families, the shaking thought of absolute morality and the provocations of love are so neatly executed that it’s hard to get distracted even for a second. Goodness is sometimes asked to pay its price for just to pass the test of innersole, the conscious opportunism is juxtaposed with the burden of morality, and trying to create passionate symphony of emotions is beyond brilliance.
