The Salesman

Cohen Media Group | Release Date: January 27, 2017

7.5	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 293 Ratings

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GhiblitHeadMar 1, 2018

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The movie as it went on, became increasingly slow. Too many unnecessary scenes that added little or nothing to the story. This shouldn't have even been a movie to begin with. They had all the evidence to go to the police and capture the rapist. He left copious amounts of blood, his phone, and vehicle. Open and shut case. The ending was also very unsatisfying and infuriating to watch. I would not recommend this to anyone. Save the two hours of your life and watch something else.… Expand

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GreatMartinMar 13, 2017

The only reason I can come up for “The Salesman” winning the best foreign film Oscar was the Academy members voting for it because the director, ASghar Farhadi refused to come to the USA in protest of Trump’s immigration executive order!
TheThe only reason I can come up for “The Salesman” winning the best foreign film Oscar was the Academy members voting for it because the director, ASghar Farhadi refused to come to the USA in protest of Trump’s immigration executive order!
The two leads, Shahab Hosseini and Taraneh Alidoosti, play actors appearing in a stage show of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” and are shown at the theatre performing in front of audiences. Why? I don’t know, except maybe to give the film a title, as it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the film or what takes place. Yes I can give a farfetched explanation regarding the famous line from the play, “Attention must be paid” but that is farfetched!
The film opens with the couple having to move because their building may collapse and sets up for the assault that takes place and brings in a character, Babak Karimi, an actor who works with the husband and wife in the play who may or may not be the assaulter. Also the assault may or may not have included rape.
There were a total of 5 seconds that aroused my interest in the film; the first being where, because of Iranian culture where the movie takes place, a character in the play is suppose to be in a revealing negligee the actress is fully dressed and the second is when someone is slapped unexpectedly.
“The Salesman” runs a little over 2 hours and you can find better things to do with those 2+ hours.… Expand

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mejzamFeb 12, 2017

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I can't even imagine this movie got nominated for Oscar. This movie is far behind "A Seperation" or "About Elly". The plot is a real mess. It is more like a comedy than a drama. An old man suffering from cardiac disease, who cannot even climb the stairs, is the rapist one! Moreover it contains many scenes (such as those in theatre) which cannot help you to understand the movie and lacks many scenes which could help you to understand the movie. At the end, the director wants you to forgive and pity the old man who raped Rana (or at least wanted to rape) and cheated on his wife for no reason! What a logic!… Expand

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AlteMar 24, 2017

The Academy members who voted to give this film an oscar are intellectual midgets. Well, that's stating the obvious, because the whole world knows of their mediocre calibre and their self-conscious and self-righteous, pathetic politicalThe Academy members who voted to give this film an oscar are intellectual midgets. Well, that's stating the obvious, because the whole world knows of their mediocre calibre and their self-conscious and self-righteous, pathetic political 'correctness'. The only reason i landed up to see this film was the false impression my friend at work gave me that it was the screen adaptation of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. The minute i saw all those bearded men and scarved women, i realised my mistake! I never want to see another film from an islamic country because i do not want to legitimise their daily, aggressive actions and symbolisms that declare male superiority over female and islamic superiority over 'infidels'. I don't want to ever act as if this kind of brazenness can be normal behaviour for humans. And the only reason I signed up at this site was to give a thumbs-up to the review of GreatMartin and Shakib_Sheikhi below, the only 2 out of 14 reviews here that I found credible. Btw, this is an idiot site that led me out and away from this review page for verification and registration but did not have the courtesy to bring me back here, instead taking me to their other irrelevant pages. I had to get back here using my search history!… Expand

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MDarwishMay 26, 2018

This movie depicts the Iranian Muslims way more different than they are. The logic is messed up. You forgive your own wife's raper! Unfortunately, these directors are only showing the negatives of Iran, and hell yes, they are magnifying theThis movie depicts the Iranian Muslims way more different than they are. The logic is messed up. You forgive your own wife's raper! Unfortunately, these directors are only showing the negatives of Iran, and hell yes, they are magnifying the issue 1000x! Normal Main Street Iranians have never experienced such stuff. And foreigners (to Iran) give prizes to these movies just because of that; showing the bad side of Iran.… Expand

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KenRNov 18, 2018

So, after watching, I read that I’ve just looked at an Award winning drama – this comes as a great surprise - as there’s little solid ‘Award’ material evident. It seems Awards are now given out to sell a trendy moviemaker or a ‘product’.So, after watching, I read that I’ve just looked at an Award winning drama – this comes as a great surprise - as there’s little solid ‘Award’ material evident. It seems Awards are now given out to sell a trendy moviemaker or a ‘product’. ‘Salesman’ is a vague, dreary movie in every sense – now this can be a good component if used to its full value but, this work is centred around an incident that happens in a very scant time – so scant, that all the elements that make up the largest percentage of the overlong story are left wanting, as in, hardly believable or full of obviously undeveloped character motivation and situations. Seems this is all award-winning works now need...a grim situation, overblown to look stronger than the writing actually sets up. Add to this a background reference to a literary classic (“Death of a Salesman”) to suggest this work must also be intelligent by association but, that ‘association’ can equally be seen as a highly questionable metaphor. The situations that make up the sum of this movies scenario are somewhat pretentious and far from worthy of such high praise (as many other worldwide viewers have clearly noted) Performances are routinely good but the material is just too thin to last the dismal distance. If you’re inclined to think Awards must automatically represent high quality you may be satisfied – conversely, if you see awards as 40% quality and 60% promotion you might join others among the disappointed.… Expand

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