The Separation Of Nader And Simin Essay

Regardless of what country we are from, movies speak to all of us to captivating images in the wonderful stories. A Separation ("The Separation of Nader and Simin") is a 2011 Iranian drama movie that was written and directed by Asghar Farhadi and starring by Leila Hatami, Peyman Moaadi, Shahab Hosseini, Sareh Bayat, and Sarina Farhadi. The main story of the film is about an educated woman (Simin) who wants to leave the country with her husband (Nader) and daughter, (Termeh), but Nader wants to stay in Iran and take care of his old father who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. "But he doesn't know you!" his wife says. "No, but I know him." Nader says. After their separation, he hires a poor woman named Razieh (Sareh Bayat) as a daytime caretaker, who signs one without telling him that she is pregnant. A few days later he fires Razieh and pushes her out the door, and then she falls on the stairs (perhaps) and has a miscarriage and that’s when all of the problems arise. A Separation is “Apparently simple on a narrative level yet morally, psychologically and socially complex, it succeeds in bringing Iranian society into focus for in a way few other films have done” Deborah Young of The Hollywood Reporter says. The opening of the film, shows Simin

Simin is a mother who is worried about her daughter and she wants to raise Termeh in a better place. Termeh is a symbol of Iranian young people who are between two groups of people. A group who want to leave the country to have a better life, and the other group who want to stay and hold the roots and their family. At the end of the film, from the black clothes that Nader is worn, we can understand that his father is died, because in the Islamic country, black is a symbol of death. Also, from the glass partition between Nader and Simin we can realize the depth of the distance between the