History Film / TheSalesman

This film won the UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestForeignLanguageFilm at the 89th Oscars.

* {{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.
* CuteKitten: Is a resident of the apartment complex.

** When something bad happens to your loved ones, take note of what ''they'' need, not yours.

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 Creator/ArthurMiller's ''Theater/DeathOfASalesman'', from which the film takes its title.

* AnAesop: When something bad happens to your loved ones, take note of what ''they'' need, not yours.
** Also, revenge is bad and keeping them will only make you alone and isolated.

* {{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.

* HonorBeforeReason: Emad quickly stops eating the macaroni Rana made after learning that [[spoiler: she bought it using the money left by the attacker.]] To be fair, Rana stops as well, though it can be attributed more to trauma. [[spoiler: Near the end, Emad even repays the money spent to the Old Man.]]

* PoliceAreUseless: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] by the Etisams' 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.

* ShowWithinAShow: Arthur Miller's DeathOfASalesman. The characters in the film wind up playing their character's roles in real life.

* TragicFlaw: Emad has two. Both of them lead to the above DownerEnding. 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.
* TragicMistake: 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.

** 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.

''The Salesman'' is a 2016 [[UsefulNotes/{{Iran}} Iranian]] drama directed and written by Asghar Farhadi.

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 film then explores themes of trauma and revenge.

The film won the 89th UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestForeignLanguageFilm.

It tells the story of husband and wife Emad and Rana, an artistic couple (he teaches literature, they both act in the theater) who experience a turbulence shortly after their move to a new apartment. Their room has previously been occupied by a prostitute who had some conflicts with her clients that led them to visit her often. The film explores themes of trauma and revenge, layered by a play of Creator/ArthurMiller's ''Theatre/DeathOfASalesman'', from where the film takes its title.

It tells the story of Emad and Rana, an artistic couple who experience a turbulence shortly after their move to a new apartment. Their room has previously been occupied by a prostitute who had some conflicts with her clients that led them to visit her often. The film explores themes of trauma and revenge, layered by a play of Creator/ArthurMiller's ''Theatre/DeathOfASalesman'', from where the film takes its title.

* AffectionateNickname: Emad is nicknamed "The Salesman" by his students, based on his role in Miller' play.

A 2016 [[UsefulNotes/{{Iran}} Iranian]] drama directed and written by Asghar Farhadi. It tells the story of an artistic couple who experience a turbulence shortly after their move to a new apartment. Their room has previously been occupied by a prostitute who had some conflicts with her clients that led them to visit her often. The film explores themes of trauma and revenge, layered by a play of Creator/ArthurMiller's ''Theatre/DeathOfASalesman'', from where the film takes its title.

* {{Forgiveness}}: [[spoiler: 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.]]

A 2016 [[{{Iran}} Iranian]] drama directed and written by Asghar Farhadi. It tells the story of an artistic couple who experience a turbulence shortly after their move to a new apartment. Their room has previously been occupied by a prostitute who had some conflicts with her clients that led them to visit her often. The film explores themes of trauma and revenge, layered by a play of Creator/ArthurMiller's ''Theatre/DeathOfASalesman'', from where the film takes its title.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: 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.]]