Meta Mazaj Guest ColumnistFor Variety‘s Writers on Writers, Meta Mazaj pens a tribute to “A Hero” (screenplay by Asghar Farhadi).
In Asghar Farhadi’s films, the institutional boxes his characters live in, seemingly solid structures of any society — justice system, civil law, family, religion — crumble in the face of the complexity of human situation.His latest brilliant drama, “A Hero,” opens with the protagonist, Rahim, in just such a box, a prison, where he is serving a sentence due to unpaid debt.
Upon his two-day release, we watch him ascend, breathlessly, the steep stairs at the Tomb of Xerxes — an apt visual metaphor for a character whose each step on an uphill climb will plunge him deeper into the abyss of irresolvable ethical.
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