Did anyone catch Simin's main reason for rebellion?

Nader clearly will fight for his beliefs and his principles but he won't fight for his wife. He seems too proud to admit that he loves his wife and will put her happiness first.

Limited,

Who knows what really goes on in any marriage, right? In the case of this movie, the viewer is only shown the relationship between the two after things have already gotten bad. How long had they been fighting? What was the intensity of their fights? What heated exchanges could they have possibly had? We shall never know. We only see them after their separation.

In a relationship with endless bickering, intimacy will suffer. The husband will get tired, and so will the wife.

Nader didn't ask her to stay because by then, all he saw was a woman who was Hell bent on leaving with or without him and breaking up the family. If he had told her not to go would she have listened? Maybe he knew she wouldn't, so he didn't bother. Maybe he was angry with her and didn't feel like telling her to stay (men are entitled to have hurt feelings too).

She was very adamant about leaving and raising her daughter in a better country and providing her with a better future. As far as I could tell, Nader provided for his family quite well, and he took very good care of them. He was a very loving and caring father, and I'm sure he was a much more attentive, caring and loving husband, before all the fighting started.

You say that Nader only cared about "what was right". Simin was the same way. For her being "right" was moving the family to some other country. For Nader, it was not abandoning his ill father. "What was right" was different for both, and neither was willing to make a compromise at the time.

Frankly I'm not even sure a compromise would have been painless for either of them. It would have involved not so much making the "right" decision, but rather choosing the "lesser of two evils" - staying in Iran and taking care of the father.

I'm not sure if this is the reason for Simin's "rebellion" as you called it. One could find more fault with Nader than with Simin, or vice versa. What I do know is that in the end, despite being together with her husband for 14 years, she's the one that left.


"Old man look at my life, I'm a lot like you were."

I think the key was in what Simin told him: "you can have everything, just give me my child and let me go."
It shows that Or it seems that she has no care for him. If he gave her Termeh, she would have been in the airport the next day.
Nader seemed to have taken that as Simin's lack of interest of continued life with him. Why would he tell her that he wants her to stay while he has already told her that if leaving the country is more important than leaving her husband he is not going to force her to stay.

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