https://movies.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/movies/a-separation-directed-by-asghar-farhadi-review.html?ref=arts
It is a rigorously honest movie about the difficulties of being honest, a film that tries to be truthful about the slipperiness of truth.
In Hodjat’s eyes Nader and Simin are part of a corrupt and entitled elite, arrogant and irreligious and full of contempt for an ordinary working man like him. And their attempts to be reasonable, compassionate and polite betray an unmistakable condescension, which Mr. Farhadi tacitly endorses by making Hodjat such a brute.
The film is remarkably deft in capturing the petty, cumulative frustrations of modern city life
Most of the characters’ behavior is viewed with sympathy and skepticism, and the frequent bouts of legal wrangling invite endless interpretation of every aspect of the story. Somehow it is all perfectly clear, and yet at the same time tantalizingly and heartbreakingly mysterious.
rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). A lot of difficult grown-up stuff.
—- then What the heck! Maybe just a perfect way of conditioning the next generation —- life simply sucks? Nonetheless, always enjoy a well-written review!