THE STORY OF FATHERS AND SONS
“Your father has Alzheimer’s disease. It doesn’t matter who takes care of him. He doesn’t even remember that you are his son…” – this is what they say to Nader, the main character in Asghar Farhadi’s moving drama, the Oscar-winning Iranian film “A Separation” (2011). The man, who does not leave his sick father and cries like a child while bathing him, replies: “But I remember that he is my father…” It is possible that once in a thousand, Nader’s willpower may fail and an undignified thought may cross his mind regarding the care of his father but despite all this...