Representation of women and Intrafamily Relationships in Iranian Movies of 2000s

Family is a widespread Social institution that understanding of the early universe and its phenomena through it. It seemed that family and its intrafamily relationships have changed these years and shaped as a new form. Iranian cinema by creating stereotypes of relationships, personality and positions have an important role in Iranian people mental construction of family and its relations. In this regard, this research seeks to describe the representation of vertical and horizontal relationships of family members in the movies, interpret the actions of family members in crisis situations and problem solving and interpret the link of family on movies with social and political conditions in 2000s. The method used in this research was narrative analyze with Chatman theory. Five films named The Last Supper (1380), Fever (1382), Wet Dream (1384), Canaan (1386) and Seven minutes to fall (1388) was selected from the 2000s. The results indicate that represented family, is in crisis. Family crisis rooted in individualism and unclear roles and relationships between family members and in most cases leads to divorce. Meanwhile, Iranian cinema in a crisis situation instead of solving the problem, by Returning to its tradition delay for a temporary time or By creating ambiguity in the relationships and roles reinforce the crisis.