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The Salesman

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The Salesman	label	The Salesman
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The Salesman	comment	The Salesman is a 2016 Iranian drama directed and written by Asghar Farhadi.It tells the story of husband and wife Emad and Rana, an artistic couple (he teaches literature, they both act in the theater). They are currently performing in a production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, from which the film takes its title.When their apartment building nearly collapses, they're forced to move. Their new apartment was previously occupied by a prostitute who serviced her johns there. Emad and Rana do not find this out until after a shocking moment of violence. The movie then explores themes of trauma and revenge.This film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Oscars.
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The Salesman / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Despite having a large impact on the story, the prostitute who rented the apartment before Emad and Rana never actually appears.
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The Salesman / int_1f0f3d6f	type	Cute Kitten
The Salesman / int_1f0f3d6f	comment	Cute Kitten: Is a resident of the apartment complex.
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The Salesman / int_280333d4	type	Hollywood Heart Attack
The Salesman / int_280333d4	comment	Hollywood Heart Attack: The Old Man suffers this twice. He recovers from the first one, but the outcome of the second is up to the viewers' interpretation.
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The Salesman / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
The Salesman / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Emad quickly stops eating the macaroni Rana made after learning that she bought it using the money left by the attacker. Near the end, Emad even repays the money spent to the Old Man.
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The Salesman / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Salesman / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Emad never quite manages to put the Old Man to justice after seeing that doing that will break his family apart as well as the possibility of Rana leaving him. Then it's rendered moot anyway when the man experiences a second heart attack, from which he may not recover. Either way, everyone is left worse off than they are at the start.
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The Salesman / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
The Salesman / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Discussed by the Ebtisams' neighbor, who praises Rana for not reporting the incident to the authorities, because they would only ask her about countless trivial things, prolonging the investigation and spending so much stress and money without actually doing anything worthwhile. Whether this is actually true or not is unknown, since the characters opt not to contact the police.
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The Salesman / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
The Salesman / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: We never do really find out if the old man deliberately assaulted Rana, or if she jumped from fright after she saw him and smashed herself into the glass, as the old man claims. And we don't find out if the old man died of his heart attack, either.
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The Salesman / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
The Salesman / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Evil is very stretched out here, but Emad ultimately decides to let the Old Man go after seeing that he means everything to his family, especially his pitiful and worried wife.
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The Salesman / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The Salesman / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Majid is not Rana's attacker. His father-in-law is.
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The Salesman / int_8200637f	type	TragicFlaw
The Salesman / int_8200637f	comment	Tragic Flaw: Emad has two. Both of them lead to the above Downer Ending. The first is self-absorption, focussing on his own wants and needs over his wife's, and the second is a particularly bad tendency to lash out at others in rage. The first destroys his marriage, the second causes him to potentially kill a man.
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The Salesman / int_820133fd	type	Tragic Hero
The Salesman / int_820133fd	comment	Tragic Hero: Emad.
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The Salesman / int_823c6e3e	type	LargeHam
The Salesman / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: In-Universe, the theatrical characters indulge in some scenery-chewing pleasures as required by the play. One particularly funny scene is when Sanam is conversing with Rana about her taking her son behind the props, alternating between a hammy voice and whisper while doing so.
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The Salesman / int_97d97c28	type	Revenge Before Reason
The Salesman / int_97d97c28	comment	Revenge Before Reason: Emad does his own little investigation to Rana's attacker, distancing himself from everyone else, despite the fact that all Rana wants is to move on.
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The Salesman / int_b2af79fb	type	Leave the Camera Running
The Salesman / int_b2af79fb	comment	Leave the Camera Running: The home invasion scene, as detailed below.
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The Salesman / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Salesman / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: See Police Are Useless above.
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The Salesman / int_b75b35ac	type	Forgiveness
The Salesman / int_b75b35ac	comment	Forgiveness: Emad ultimately decides to let the Old Man escape persecution. Rana as well, but then, she doesn't seem to hold a grudge at all.
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The Salesman / int_c06ec61e	type	Corpsing
The Salesman / int_c06ec61e	comment	Corpsing: Non-laughter example, Rana and Emad each go off the script at separate times due to their stress. Rana breaks down crying after a while and excuses herself from the theater, while Emad unconsciously adds rather insulting dialogue directed at his co-star.
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The Salesman / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
The Salesman / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. The characters in the film wind up playing their character's roles in real life.
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The Salesman / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
The Salesman / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: The scene where Rana leaves the door open, which leads to the home invasion. The camera is left lingering for an uncomfortably long time as the audience is left wondering what would happen, then it abruptly cuts to Emad outside, entering the complex and seeing blood on the staircase leading to his room...
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The Salesman / int_d965507b	type	Tragic Mistake
The Salesman / int_d965507b	comment	Tragic Mistake: Whatever chance Emad had of saving his marriage disappeared the moment he demanded that Rana "stay out of this." This, in context, being his emotional torture of the Old Man while a horrified Rana, the victim, pleads with him stop since she has already forgiven him. That one line exposed Emad's selfishness and anger to everyone present, and his and Rana's marriage would never be the same again.
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The Salesman / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
The Salesman / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: The previous owner's belongings, which get repeated mentions due to the owner's strict order for anyone not to touch them. They don't contribute anything, since the source of the conflict is not the owner, but her client.
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The Salesman / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
The Salesman / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: Emad is nicknamed "The Salesman" by his students, based on his role in Miller's play.
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The Salesman / int_e11e88b6	type	Thousand-Yard Stare
The Salesman / int_e11e88b6	comment	Thousand-Yard Stare: Since the home invasion, Rana frequently retreats to her world and does nothing more than just stare.
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The Salesman / int_feea44a5	type	Fully-Clothed Nudity
The Salesman / int_feea44a5	comment	Fully-Clothed Nudity: Discussed and lampshaded. The nameless woman from Death of a Salesman who is in Willy's hotel room when Biff arrives is supposed to be half-naked. But due to Iranian censorship Kati, the actress playing the woman, has to wear a raincoat, while her character is talking about being almost naked. The actor playing Biff dissolves in laughter.
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