Looking for resources for this movie was also twists and turns. At first, I searched everywhere to no avail. Then I gave up the unsubtitled version that Soybean Oil sent me. In the end, an old friend showed me the way without missing this good movie.
Many films in Iran are produced in "hand workshops", which has a lot to do with the scarcity of local film and television creators, lack of production funds and simple shooting equipment. Many of Abbas's works are done by himself. Behind the scenes of the production, the unpretentious documentary approach and the performance of non-professional actors still touched my heart.
My childhood was also a world without the right to speak. We thought about other things (returning Lin Ma’s workbook), but we had to abide by the rules specified by adults (take care of the crying younger brother, help grandpa with cigarettes), every time A mistake and a lie are both dissatisfaction and challenge to the rules of adults (to buy bread to grandpa), and when he was a child, he was exposed by adults because of his panicked expression (grandfather asked him what to do in Boston), and finally he resisted the pressure and slowly Grow up (deceive the teacher and get 'excellent' homework reviews).
As a viewer, I should maintain a rational and objective attitude towards watching movies. The director shaped how the child obeyed his mother in the early stage (handing diapers, making sugar water, and taking care of his younger brother). At that moment my heart turned to the children. He tried to tell his mother how important this workbook was to his deskmate. If he didn't return it, Lin Ma would be expelled tomorrow (adults know that the teacher scare the children for the power system), but the children were very scared.
The mother began to disbelieve the child's words, and decided that he wanted to go out to play. The child's right to speak with the adult has been seriously inclined to the adult side. The child will not give up. His behavior has his own logic. Mother and mother still disagreed. Finally, the head of the family moved out and asked the father to clean him up. The child was still determined to run to the classmate's house while buying bread and carrying the homework book.
At the end of the film, the parents don't care what he did, they just think it's a very ordinary and boring afternoon, and in the eyes of the child, he has experienced a big adventure today, it's a long unknown and hard adventure , the final result was still so unsatisfactory, so his mood was as depressed as the gust of wind outside.
There are many contrasts in this film, the contrast between innocent children and indifferent adults in cognition of the world, the contrast between the struggling old man and the vigorous child, the contrast between ancient civilization and industrial civilization.
The little flower on the final workbook is the blessing of the old man to the child, the help of the weak, and the warm ending.
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