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Is There No Redemption?

posted 8 years ago by time_bie
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This film was a film about miserable people with a miserable circumstance that
gets progressively worse and worse to the point of no return. Where is the
redemption?

The film did it's job well in making you feel isolated and almost alone, in that
everybody in this film seemed to be fighting for themselves in their own right.

I couldn't get into it because of all the depression and upset. I felt like a fly on the wall overlooking their issues instead of feeling a part of the story. It just gets to you after a while.

BUT the best you can hope for is to feel moved by a movie, and I hope this one did that for many others.

[–] PoppyTransfusion 8 years ago

Where is the redemption?

At the end Termeh is able to choose who she wants to live with rather than try to manipulate her parents reuniting. Equally they are not present to manipulate her feelings when she makes her choice. There's the redemption. The question is what redemption, if any, will there be for the other daughter, Somayeh?

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer

[–] melinda2001 8 years ago

Termeh is free to manipulate her parents by making her choice. She already said she knew her mother would not leave if she stayed with her father.

To the OP, the only redemption I saw was what Nader got by asking Razieh to swear on the Koran, but I don't think the movie was about redemption.