According to the FAQ the elderly grandfather is dead at the end- so why are our protagonists still divorcing? The father's main reason for staying was to take care of his father- why not go with his wife and daughter with him gone?
shareVery prideful man--he tells his wife in no uncertain terms that he chooses to face problems and solve them while she chooses to run away. For him to agree to leave the country with her would indicate that she was right and he was wrong, something he doesn't appear to be prepared to do.
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His pride was a huge factor in most of his decisions in the film. He could obviously tell in the end that his wife had known he was probably not at fault but wanted him to pay the family to avoid further stress to the daughter.
This probably represented a betrayal as well as glaring example of their biggest point of contention: how they deal with negative situations. After that I imagine there was little chance of a reconciliation between the two.
Seemed pretty clear the two had fallen out of love assuming they had once been there. The husband was the only one holding up the divorce in the first place.
shareWhat are you talking about? He agrees to the divorce in the first two minutes of the film, they show the wife crying in the car asking how it was so easy for him, why he didn't fight after 14 years of marriage.
I think too much had happened. They were already divorced, they'd been through the entire miscarriage ordeal, they were all in mourning, Nader had a great deal of pride... the only issue left now was custody.
Um, no, they were not already divorced. The legal authority ruled their issue was a small matter and you couldn't get divorced over a small matter. They would only go through with the divorce if Simin could take their daughter away to a foreign country, and Nader didn't give his consent to his daughter leaving until the whole miscarriage controversy.
shareIn the car she meant why didn't he fight the separation, fight for her to stay in the house after 14 years of marriage. They were separated but not divorced.
When you get up in the morning, how do you decide what shade of black to wear? (Shallow Grave)
The grandfather's illness was the reason why they were fighting for custody; not the reason why they were divorcing. They clearly had fallen out of love.
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