Asghar Farhadi’s super-modest yet supremely ambitious chronicle of class
conflict in Tehran is a massive deconstruction project that strikes right at
the heart of systems that define us. Accumulating detail upon detail and
soaking the film in the ambiguity that characterizes the real world, A
Separation reveals the utter failure of binary logic – which not only forms
the foundation of institutions such as justice but also permeates and petrifies
our imagination – in dealing with
human dilemmas. Farhadi’s centrism is not a
form of bourgeois neutrality that plagues many a war movies, it is a
recognition that truth lies somewhere in the recesses between the contours of
language, law and logic. Working with unquantifiable parameters such as
irrationality and doubt, Farhadi’s film is something of an aporia in the
discourses that surround cinema and reality and an urgent call for revaluation
of approaches towards critical problems in general. Rigorously shot, edited and
directed, A Separation is a genuinely empathetic yet highly intelligent
slice of reality in all its messy complexity and breathtaking grace.
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