Director : Asghar Farhadi
Written by : Asghar Farhadi & Azad Jafarian
Elly a kindergarten teacher accompanies middle class Iranian group of friends to a picnic. The friends consists of three couples with their kids and a single man Ahmed. Elly knows only Sepideh in the group and comes for the picnic as Sepideh forces her to. Sepideh is trying to link up Elly and Ahmed.
Elly initially hesitant is attracted to Ahmed and Ahmed also likes her. The group stays in a deserted villa on the beach of Caspian Sea. Elly wishes to go back home next day as she has lied to her mother about the picnic. But Sepideh forces her to stay back. In the afternoon one of the lady asks Elly to keep watch on the kids playing on the beach. After some time one kid is found drowning in the sea and men in the house save him. After sometime they realise that Elly is missing. They start looking for her. They are not sure if she left or she drowned in the sea. They can't go to police has she and Ahmed are single and they lied the owner of the villa that they are married. The lie will bring disgrace to Elly and her family. Everyone starts blaming each other for the disappearance but the things are not the same as they seem.
The film earlier seems to be boring but after the drowning incident becomes a mystery. Mystery surrounding the identity of Elly and what is the truth Speideh is hidding from everyone? Suffocation due to social taboos is the main character in the film and it plays the role well.
It is very normal for us to meet or date someone but the concept seems to be taboo in Iran. The unmarried couple can meet only under parental guidance. Why government has to decide on how we live our life? Why their should be moral policing? This is not case only with Iran, but even in India many political parties resorts to moral policing as per their liking and convenience. They should understand that they are because of us and not vice versa.
Recommended.
Written by : Asghar Farhadi & Azad Jafarian
Elly a kindergarten teacher accompanies middle class Iranian group of friends to a picnic. The friends consists of three couples with their kids and a single man Ahmed. Elly knows only Sepideh in the group and comes for the picnic as Sepideh forces her to. Sepideh is trying to link up Elly and Ahmed.
Elly initially hesitant is attracted to Ahmed and Ahmed also likes her. The group stays in a deserted villa on the beach of Caspian Sea. Elly wishes to go back home next day as she has lied to her mother about the picnic. But Sepideh forces her to stay back. In the afternoon one of the lady asks Elly to keep watch on the kids playing on the beach. After some time one kid is found drowning in the sea and men in the house save him. After sometime they realise that Elly is missing. They start looking for her. They are not sure if she left or she drowned in the sea. They can't go to police has she and Ahmed are single and they lied the owner of the villa that they are married. The lie will bring disgrace to Elly and her family. Everyone starts blaming each other for the disappearance but the things are not the same as they seem.
The film earlier seems to be boring but after the drowning incident becomes a mystery. Mystery surrounding the identity of Elly and what is the truth Speideh is hidding from everyone? Suffocation due to social taboos is the main character in the film and it plays the role well.
It is very normal for us to meet or date someone but the concept seems to be taboo in Iran. The unmarried couple can meet only under parental guidance. Why government has to decide on how we live our life? Why their should be moral policing? This is not case only with Iran, but even in India many political parties resorts to moral policing as per their liking and convenience. They should understand that they are because of us and not vice versa.
Recommended.
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