Spoilers below.

On 209 W Houston St, New York, NY 10014, there is a small movie theater called the Film Forum, the place you go to watch independent films. One of those movies is "Fireworks Wednesday," directedby Asghar Farhadi. The whole movie takes place on Fireworks Wednesday/Red Wednesday, the Persian New Year. The movie starts with Rouhi the young bride-to-be, riding on the back of her fiance's motorcycle, going to find work. This movie shows us the life of a Iranian married couple, and their maid who is the bride-to-be and how, for some people, marriage doesn't work out. Mojden, the wife, is convinced that Mortezaher's husband is cheating on her with the lady across the hall. Rouhi, the maid, is the glue that keeps the marriage from falling apart.

When Rouhi gets to the couple's apartment building, Morteza answers the door. He is on the phone talking to someone from work, and the apartment looks like it has been abandoned for many years or they moved there and haven't unpacked in a while. The couple was leaving to go on a vacation. Morteza asks Rouhi to clean the broken pieces of glass on the floor, which we later find out came from the window that Morteza broke when he and his wife were arguing. After that Mojdeh comes home, and the two of them start arguing. After Morteza leaves for work, Mojdeh gives Rouhi money and tells her to go home, but she wouldn’t take it because she didn’t work for it, so she doesn’t deserve it. But she is convinced and takes the money. She doesn’t go home, instead she waits downstairs. Later Mojdeh sees her downstairs and calls her up to help out with the cleaning. Then Mojdeh finds out that Rouhi is getting married soon, so she tells her to go to the salon to get her eyebrows done. The salon is run by Simin in her apartment, who is also the person who Mojdeh says that Morteza is cheating with but Mojdeh doesn’t tell Rouhi that. Mojdeh does this because she has a peephole, she can hear what Simin says from the vent in the bathroom. I think this movie perfectly sums up the troubles married people have in that part of the world. Mojdeh doesn’t trust Morteza, and twice in the movie she has tried to run away with Amir Ali, their child.

Rouhi, the maid and the bride-to-be, is the glue that keeps the couple from splitting even if it is for a day. She does everything she possibly can, even lying. When she came back from the salon, Mojdeh sat her down and gave her some orange juice so she could get out as much information as she could. She did get out something that was very important to the film. In the conversation Rouhi says that they are leaving for the vacation at a.m., now Mojdeh didn’t even know what time they are leaving but Simin the salon owner knew when they were leaving, so that tells us that Morteza might be dating Simin. Rouhi quickly figures out that and tells Mojdeh that she heard Morteza tell the person on the phone that and she overheard it. Then Morteza returns and the both of them start arguing again when things cool off. Morteza offers to give Rouhi a ride back home but after the firework show that Amir Ali really wanted to see. When they get to the park to see the fireworks Morteza quickly runs off saying that he has errands to attend to, he buys some stuff from a vendor. Then he drives to a alley, where he is waiting for Simin to go on a date with but she says that it can't work out and she breaks up with him. Then after the fireworks are over he drives his son and Rouhi back to the apartment to put him to bed. In the ride back Rouhi smells a perfume she smelled in Simin's salon and is conceived that Morteza is cheating on his wife. When they get back to the apartment Morteza tells Rouhi to stay downstairs while he tucks in Amir Ali but Rouhi comes up anyway, when Morteza is away Rouhi tries to tell Mojdeh that she was right, that her husband is dating the lady across the hall, but she doesn't get the chance to tell her. Then Morteza drops off Rouhi where her fiance was to pick her up.

This movie is a work of art. These days you don’t get movies like this. It's always just getting rich, comedy, etc. This movie is unlike anything I have ever seen, showing the life of a married couple in a different country. It's like someone made a movie about my family. With all the constant fighting and arguing or any other family from that part of the world. I'm not saying that it only happens in a particular part of the world, it happens everywhere, but it just felt so real I could relate to it. I do think that the movie ended too quickly - more should have been shown. I know it's not a Hollywood film; it's not inspired by the western world. But still, I left the theater feeling disappointed by the ending, the rest of the movie I liked.