The main purpose of this article is to understand epistemological and ssociological indications of ‘A Separation’ directed by Asghar Farhadi, an Iranian director, the winner of 2012 Oscar award for best non-English language film.
This Qualitative Research, based on methodology of Semiotics, aims to decode a number of underneath and hidden layers of the film.
The study shows that the film - in a dramatic way with artistic delicacy - induces a message that “Iran is not a place to live”. The arguments raised in the film are to that end and are trying to push the audience to sympathize with it.
The message of films is a mirror of the sociological and sociological problems of modern Iran, which is shown normal by filmmaking using techniques such as the limitations of the Long Shot, closed space entropy and the mum of music.
Indeed, one of the functions of visual arts is the naturalization of the conditions constructed by ciphers and symbols in society.
In the film, moral themes in the Iranian society are depicted as being in a condition of collapse, which has epistemological definitions.