I’m not watching, never would. A friend posted it on facebook. Right off the bat, the very first Oscar, and of course when the scumbag accepting it describes Iran as “a glorious culture, a people who respect all cultures and civilazations, and despise hostility and resentment!”, all the lib swine attending give the POS a standing Ovation. I wouldn’t mind an al Qaeda attack there…
Written and directed by Asghar Farhadi, the domestic drama focuses on a couple going through a divorce and touches on traditions, justice, and male-female relationships in modern Iran.
“A Separation” was regarded as the front-runner for the foreign language Oscar after sweeping the awards circuit in Europe and the United States. It also garnered an Oscar nomination for best original screenplay.
It was the second Iranian film to be nominated for an Oscar, and the first to win.
“At this time, many Iranians all over the world are watching us and I imagine them to be very happy,” director Farhadi said while accepting the Oscar.
“At a time of tug of war, intimidation and aggressions exchanged between politicians, the name of their county, Iran, is spoken here through her glorious culture, a rich and ancient culture that has been hidden under the heavy dust of politics.”
“I proudly offer this award to the people of my country, the people who respect all cultures and civilizations and despise hostility and resentment,” he added.
“A Separation” has received almost universal critical acclaim, gracing many top 10 lists for the best movies of 2011.
Two nights before the Oscar ceremony, Israeli and Iranian artists came together in a show of peace, said Lior Ashkenazi, a star of the Israeli foreign language Oscar entry “Footnote”.
“At the Academy event in hour of the foreign films, we sat, spoke and all the veils came off,” Ashkenazi told Israel’s Army Radio. “They are warm hearted people. We invited them to Tel Aviv and they invited us to Tehran.”
Farhadi, who works and lives in Iran, has been reluctant to entertain theories that his film is a parable for the struggles between Iran’s young dissidents and its paternalistic mullahs, saying it is up to audiences to take from the movie what they will.
Others have interpreted “A Separation” as a comment on class differences, or as a critique of Iran’s justice system, or a clash between modernity and tradition.
Farhadi made the movie under Iranian censors who impose strictures on filmmakers in the name of Islamic morality and national morale. But he has said he was not confronted with censorship.
Award-winning Iranian director Jafar Panahi was sentenced to jail in 2010 and banned from making any more films. Farhadi has spoken up for Panahi, putting himself in the line of fire from hardliners in the Iranian government.
But Farhadi has also criticized fellow Iranians who emphasize state censorship in order to promote their movies abroad, saying they are as morally culpable as the government officials who censor them.
This is just disgusting. It shows the Left’s alliance with Islam.
Leftists are such sick swine.
I think he’s trying to say that *Iranian culture* respects all religions. (He didn’t say this of *Islam*.) The Persians were the ones who let the Jews back into Israel the first time around, and who sheltered the Nestorian Christians against the Byzantine Greeks.
I agree that he was being a douche about the dissident Iranians, but then, America has its dissidents too. It might even be easier to write an anti-Islamic book in Iran than it is in America now.
Zimriel wrote:
In 614, during the war between the Byzantines and Sassanids, the Zoroastrian Persians, upon capturing Jerusalem, established an autonomous Jewish commonwealth, which lasted until 625.