Has anybody here watched the movie, what did you think of it? - Forooshande (2016) Discussion

[–] Aunt-Peg 8 years ago

His worst to date. Lets face it few directors have ever made a film as powerfully compelling as A Separation. It remains the best of the decade so far.

The Past & Fireworks Wednesday are also affective. I need to revisit About Elly as I was disappointed in it.

The Salesman was pretty much a failure all round. Clearly there were meant to be some influences of Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman but I couldn't find anything. The film has a startling set-up and doesn't know what to do with it.
Such a shame.

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[–] fahimevishka 8 years ago

well i disagree with u on the matyer that this movie didnt know where it wanted to go. the thing is it seemed as if farhadi was critesizing the main charecter, emad the role played by shahab hoseni. he was a well educated person of the society , he was a teacher of nothing else but the literature . he was supposed to have more of an open eye to morality and humans framework, as in the start of the movie it got mentioned about a very popular movie named cow which is very simbolic in iran, one of his students asked him sir how can sb becomes a cow ? and he answerd slowly... by that he meant u can easily lose urself and lose ur human identity . and as the movie got near to the end we saw how this person who was supposed to be a high educated person made the bad decision ? the guy who was full of Slogan most of his life became a faliur when it came to himself..
it was wrong of him to become the judeger, the policeman and the Executioner himself. he shouodnt have done what he did to that rapper, even if they guy wouldnt have get alomost physicly in a dying state , he killed him memtally right there in front of his family . as u saw how his wife looked at him like she was disapointed and told him if u tell on him i don want to do any thing w u any more .. so the main charecter himself... was slowly becoming the cow and i think this was a massage farhadi was transferring...how u can step by step lose it and it doesnt matyer who u are as long as the essenve of ur choives controls u

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[–] LordElrondd 8 years ago

Watched it today actually. It's my second favorite of Farhadi's films after About Elly.

I think he did a really good job in creating a sense of anticipation and mystery just like in About Elly. I do believe there are plot points that really don't go anywhere which just leaves things hanging to be questioned, but I did enjoy it nonetheless.

The acting is fantastic and it's probably the best thing about the film. I also enjoyed the subtle parallels between the story we're seeing and the Death of A Salesman play which they're playing.

I also liked the way its shot. There are few scenes with very low light which makes it seem like he only used natural light. (I'm not sure on this but it sure looked like natural light!)

Overall, I'm pretty happy with it. Lots of people are bashing it for some reason but I think its worth seeing.

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[–] Goodbye_Ruby_Tuesday 8 years ago

Some spoilers ahead, overall:

When looking at it from afar, the movie is basically a rape revenge film. Farhadi is a genius at showing ordinary people dealing with huge moral dilemmas, and he is able to flavor it with a lot of deeply complex emotions, but he also falls into similar trappings of that genre, that more attention is paid to a vengeful husband than the recovering wife and her own set of newly complicated feelings. Farhadi avoids the usual plot contrivances--the couple refuse to call the police to report the assault--in order to focus solely on the emotions, and there casual victim blaming of the wife is something completely universal to Western audiences despite or supposed better treatment of women. The supposed parallels to Miller's Death of Salesman are too strained to be profound. The film doesn't nearly pack the wallop of A Separation, but then, few films do.

There's something I know when I'm with you that I forget when I'm away

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[–] vitinha_abu 8 years ago

*Spoilers*

Where have you seen the rape?i tink there was no rape,she was ashamed to be seen naked and touched by the old guy,if she was touched by him she would act differently when she is in front of him,for her to be seen naked by another man brought her a shame, such as, if she was raped,its a different culture,i dont think she was raped,but i would love to have some people to discuss this,if the guy raped her,he would have a lot of cold blood,he wouldnt run ,leaving car keys,socks,and everything behind,i'd love to have some response from you.

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[–] itsahoverboard 8 years ago

I saw it tonight. Thought it was great, not at the level of A Separation or About Elly on first viewing but definitely better than The Past. It is his most creative work so far story wise, the best looking and filmed. And it still has some of those super intense dramatic sequences that he is known for.

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[–] Jes' Sayin' (6361) 7 years ago

Couldn't stand it at all. There's nobody to like because over and over again they behave stupidly, from A to Z.

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