1. The Apple is concerned with the impact of veiling and the tension between the public and the private. How is this tension represented in the style and setting of the film? How does the film use style to communicate a sense of privacy and enclosure? How does this change over the course of the film?
2. In line with the veiled film style of Iranian cinema, The Apple makes use of several different symbols. What objects do you repeatedly see in the film? How are they being used symbolically?
3. Like a number of Iranian films from the period, The Apple uses children to tell its story but the issues that itengages with speak to larger social concerns, in this case, the status of women. How are women represented in this film? Where do they spend their time? How does the status of woman intersect with the idea of disability?