A Separation: how to control without physical violence

A separation starts with a couple about to be ripped apart, as the wife left the marital home and seeks to offer their daughter a better life, and as the father has to take care of his disabled dad and get involved in an imbroglio with another couple and their daughter.

In countries where cultural and religious pressure dictate the daily lives of people, and intrinsically the interactions between men and women where superiority of one gender over the other primes above all, one usually imagines a kind of abuse that is physically and psychologically showing. However, instead of the usual trope of fanatics wielding their justified will onto helpless women, the film shows a more subtle image of how men impact the lives of their female counterpart as their will is imposed and immutable. As the movie progresses, we spiral into the inevitable for women who, despite their efforts and cunning, cannot escape their fate as they lie in the wake of men's selfish tyranny. But boy do we see them fight, fight to survive as well as combat the crushing layers of authoritative judiciary and executive powers, where ultimately flight to another more open country is vital. Ultimately, Mixed with the more assertive excess of strength, the strategy of subjugation highly effective through using emotions of fear and culpability.

Their disregard for women does not breed voluntary maltreatment to inflict sorrow on them. Even for those they deeply care and love and would do anything for, they don't seem to be able to get out of the eternal of long time traditions and instead resort to using sly tactics and manipulations undermining and eroding the truth they will ultimately set as their own.