“The tree” in Babak Khaje Pasha’s film is actually the mother and the support of the members of a family who have deep emotional and emotional relationships with each other, although the children of the story express these feelings more easily and clearly towards each other, and even the teenager who loves the story Also, by buying perfume and girls’ accessories for his lover, he expresses his feelings better and more than his older brother who is planning to break up.
Perhaps the denial and hiding of these true feelings by the main characters of the story is the main reason for the subsequent disputes and troubles of the family of four. The author of “In the embrace of the tree” shows well the effect of not facing and not treating a mental disorder such as “distance phobia” that was formed due to a bitter memory in the past; Perhaps, if the psychological knots resulting from that bitter memory were resolved and opened sooner, this kind and loving family would experience a better quality of life and the unfortunate incidents caused by this issue would be resolved sooner.
One of the remarkable points of the story is the very good attention to the pure and innocent world of children. Regardless of the sadness that children of divorce experience when facing the separation of their parents, putting a distance between them and their co-stars is not at all understandable and acceptable from the point of view of children, and this is a point that the audience fully feels in the semi-final sequences of the film.
One of the bitter features of divorce is the silence of feelings and emotions between family members; Although divorce may be effective as a last resort in some cases, it can be very costly for the children and at least one of the spouses. In the movie “In the embrace of the tree”, we see that the decision to separate and the counselor’s recommendation to divide the children between the parents threatens the relationship between the mother and the father with one of the children; Perhaps it is not so strange that the parents’ feelings towards their spouse and one of their children are turned off, but the parents’ efforts to turn off the children’s pure feelings towards their brother and co-star are unbearable for the movie audience.
The turning point of the story is the silencing of the emotions and feelings of the parents and the unbearable separation of the brothers from each other, but the author punishes the parents in a way at the end of the story, and they spend one night until the morning, compensating for the pressure and pain on the children’s hearts. They give back what they put in! The mother understands that she should have faced the bitterness of a memory in her life earlier and treated it, the father understands that he should have more commitment to his wife and children, and finally, although perhaps the children running away from the family and taking refuge in the embrace of the tree is a work of imagination. It seemed and was illogical, but the connecting point was the separation of the members of a dependent family.
If we liken the family to the rosary thread and the family members to its seeds, the necessity of the rosary thread becomes clear to us;
It seems that the choice of the film “In the embrace of the tree” to participate in the Oscars, because it is a family-oriented and Iranian film, and because in the “West” the meaning and concept of the original family has been lost for a long time and day by day
Its importance is fading, it can be a worthy representative of our country Iran and once again express valuable concepts such as family, love and affection of father and mother, brother and sister with an expressive voice to different societies.