Won the Best Art Film Award at the Cannes Film Festival, Abbas's famous work "Where Is My Friend's Home" is a work that ignores the indifference of the adult world from the perspective of an eight-year-old child. In this simple film, the little male protagonist embarks on a series of journeys to find a friend's home because he is afraid that his classmate will be scolded by the teacher because of his mistake. As the little boy shuttled back and forth, running in the two villages in the mountains, he saw the living conditions in Iran and how the adults who were busy surviving ignored the children's voices. Abbas used his usual realistic approach, through the sincerity of amateur actors, and with a lens similar to a documentary, to tell us what Iran looks like in his eyes. Through the dialogue between young boys and various adults, it is possible to construct the Iranian education system in which everything needs to be "disciplined", and the children's main focus in life is to help their families make a living. Even if the teacher repeatedly taught that the first thing to do when going home is to do homework, the child's first task is to read, and the second is to help their parents with work. However, there are still children who can't do it. There are many reasons for not doing homework well, but the reasons All because of poor living conditions. I like that this film uses a naive, but not tragic, narrative to interpret a very heavy story. From the resolute eyes of the young male protagonist, his unyielding pursuit, and the scenes brought to Xiaohua at the end, one can feel that in Abbas' heart, he still has good expectations for the indifferent Iranian society. #Want to reread Abbas' book#The opening ten minutes were moved to the point of crying
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