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A Separation, the title, carries many meanings. Moving beyond it's common understanding as a listing of marital divide, the actual separation between the focal husband and wife, is merely a fraction of what this story's trying to express.
In fact, A Separation doesn't pay much attention to the mechanics of marriage in the end, employing the fractured union as a bookend device to reinforce the delicate emotional state of these characters. It's really about Nader, a man who makes a grave mistake and shoves a woman out of his house under the pretext that the woman has harmed his Alzheimer's stricken father. Peyman Moaadi plays Nader, a breathtaking performance of someone losing his sanity, maybe even regretting the decision not to leave with his wife and daughter and leaving his father behind.
The woman in question who suffers the brunt end of Nader's shove is surrounded by sin, and eventually ends up doing something admirable in the end. Her husband plays a man grieving and self-righteously stubborn, for good reason though. These characters seem all too real, in a land of oppression and lies. This story could've been another film about two people, not so amicably, divorcing but instead tells an original story that I'm sure will linger with you for weeks to come.
All In All, A Separation is a story of convoluted half-truths, unrelenting argumentative behavior, a terrible justice system, and families suffering consequential aftermaths. And it's never been so beautiful. A
A Separation
A Separation, the title, carries many meanings. Moving beyond it's common understanding as a listing of marital divide, the actual separation between the focal husband and wife, is merely a fraction of what this story's trying to express.
In fact, A Separation doesn't pay much attention to the mechanics of marriage in the end, employing the fractured union as a bookend device to reinforce the delicate emotional state of these characters. It's really about Nader, a man who makes a grave mistake and shoves a woman out of his house under the pretext that the woman has harmed his Alzheimer's stricken father. Peyman Moaadi plays Nader, a breathtaking performance of someone losing his sanity, maybe even regretting the decision not to leave with his wife and daughter and leaving his father behind.
The woman in question who suffers the brunt end of Nader's shove is surrounded by sin, and eventually ends up doing something admirable in the end. Her husband plays a man grieving and self-righteously stubborn, for good reason though. These characters seem all too real, in a land of oppression and lies. This story could've been another film about two people, not so amicably, divorcing but instead tells an original story that I'm sure will linger with you for weeks to come.
All In All, A Separation is a story of convoluted half-truths, unrelenting argumentative behavior, a terrible justice system, and families suffering consequential aftermaths. And it's never been so beautiful. A