a separation (2011). directed by asghar farhadi.

this story is layered. of husbands and wives who can't/don't know how to show love to each other that they are willing to let it go without a fight, wrongly holding on the principle that if one should stay only if one wants to. are they too proud to admit that they still care for one another but waiting for one of them to say "please stay?". it is not right. in the course of their fights, they put many people in the path of their destruction - their daughter who is staying with the father as a way to keep her mother around, the poor housekeeper who is not willing to lie for the fear of retribution, the unemployed housekeeper husband who is self destructive at how hard life is. we can't fault any of them, but they all have a hand in the mess. life's a bitch? an understatement, really.