In countries where etnic diversity is present more powerful one is always good guy, center of attraction and the hero in the movies. Other one(s) is the bad guy. I know of this from Turkey because for years they used the suppressed nation as the symbol of evil, ignorance and anti civilization. In this movie, I am not talking about whole Iranian cinema because I could not know, as I realized that character Babak(who was having affair) and the older guy with heart problems (who caused main character to be wounded on the head) are Azerbaijani Turks. Taking out a group of one ethnicity and turning them into negative symbol of everything that I talked about is very dangerous. It should be eliminated as soon as possible. May be that was not the issue at all and that was a coincidence but I felt that way. I like these kind of movies which is about normal life events not surreal and Utopias, lies etc..
Review of The Salesman
