Director Asghar Farhadi is a master storyteller. He is particularly adept at painting characters in deep shades of gray.
A Separation
Fuse Commentary: All Cultural Things Shining at the Oscars
The core claim of the book is that the contemporary culture is nihilistic in outlook, but unnecessarily so. The authors believe there to be a remedy to our debilitating amnesia —- to integrate our lives, in some ways, into the world as perceived by our cultural forefathers.