When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.
Asghar FarhadiI always feel that a viewer has an expectation about every moment of the film and where it's going, so if I act against that, I've created a twist. In fact it becomes a kind of game with the expectations of the viewer. This is the superficial appearance. In the layer beneath there is a hidden theme. The result of each twist is that the judgment of the audience member is challenged.
Asghar FarhadiI feel itโs important to talk about the complex issues affecting us. And these are complex issues. I think itโs insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.
Asghar FarhadiIt was important to me to make a film where I don't show the past but where the spectators can see the past.
Asghar Farhadi