Ethics Getting Problematic in Iranian Cinema: The Transition from the Text to the Social Context: A Case Study of the Movie «Separation»

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Arash Hasanpour 1
Vahid Ghasemi 2
Ehsan Aqababaee 3
Ali Rabbani 2
1 literature and humanities, university of Isfahan
2 social science department, humanities faculty, Isfahan university, Isfahan. Iran
3 university of esfahan
10.22034/jcsc.2020.82418.1558
Abstract
Art is the most important sphere of everyday-life representation, and so as influenced by history and Results showed ethics attributed to characters such as Nader, Simin, and Termeh is consecutive-oriented. Although streaks of task-oriented and virtue-oriented ethos are also visible from them in some minutes of movie, ethics attributable to the character Razieh as representative of the lower-class is non-profit-oriented, task-oriented, and sharia-oriented. It is also necessary to mention that existentialist reading of the movie showed that in this film the issue of selection, responsibilities, election, and power and value worlds are problematic, and the issue of choosing between ethics and minor conditions raised by the position so that as the cases in terms of being in the tough stance of selecting moral choices were put in a terrible, frightening, anxiety-making, and responsibility-awarding situation. This position has also a tragic outcome for the character, and this would cause them to suffer anxiety and isolation. In the world of the text, the issue of morality is not polarity-building, but it observes the possibility or refusing of a moral life and even questioning the nature of morality in modern times. In the end, using the theory of cultural materialism, the issue of possibility of the cultural texts such as separation was analyzed.

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Cultural Studies & Communication
Volume 17, Issue 62
Spring 2021
Pages 51-84