(film 123 minutes)
Rating: 3/10 | Yaser Tohidi
August 15, 2019
A middle class family is at the verge of breaking up, why? Wife wants to immigrate because, among others, she wants to raise her daughter in a better place but the husband feels strong attachments to his home-country especially because of his ill father. They find the only way is divorce but the judge finds the couple's problems insufficient to warrant divorce. So the wife leaves the house although their daughter decides to stay with her dad. The husband hires a person to manage the house and to take care of his old father who suffers Alzheimer. This is the beginning of a chain of incidents which put the husband in a difficult situation. Everybody is lying or at least hiding the reality at some point during these incidents except the wife who tries to resolve the problems by offering money, forgetting that the money cannot solve everything when moralities come into place. Moralities from persons who lied before! Finally, the parents file another divorce application -although the grandfather is dead this time and the man's excuse is irrelevant!- and this time it’s accepted and the judge leaves their daughter to choose with whom she would like to live.
A Separation is forming a social drama but is unable to stick to its original question: should the daughter leave her home-country or not? Majority of the time spent on the incidents and small details. All the characters are gray and there is no protagonist. They are locked in their situation and cannot select between putting moralities on top or going after an easy life. Nothing new, as we are facing with these situations in our life and probably it has been always like this in human societies. Analogously, the scenario line is not clear and therefore it reduces to a melodrama between two families from two different levels of society and the hates that they have towards each other, although sometimes they love each other! As you see, whatever you start saying about this movie is not true! This is coming from a scenario with no clear direction in mind.
The movie throws questions about morality but leaves them unanswered and makes the viewers busy with chain of incidents till the next question. There is no effort to answer those questions. Therefore, there is no aim or message for the ending. At the end we are faced with more questions than answers.
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