The first Iranian director I came into contact with was Majid Majidi. Then, after reading the overwhelming comments about Abbas, I went back and watched his film.
Abbas' films are for seasoned moviegoers. Because the first-time moviegoers choose American movies with twists and turns, distinct characters and exaggerated scenes, American movies are visual and spiritual stimulation. . So back to Iranian movies, there are warm feelings between people and real life pictures. Sometimes I feel that this is a real presentation of life, not a movie. So everyone commented that Abbas's films are semi-documentary, and it is true, watching his films, there is not much isolation from reality, although his lens is aimed at the poor and isolated Iranian countryside in the early 1990s.
It is said that Abbas is a poet, but I haven't had time to read his poems, but there are always one or two old people in his films who ramble about expressing their emotions about life, which is quite poetic. For example, the little boy's grandfather is sitting at the entrance of the village, and the old man who makes the window to guide the little boy in the dark, their appearance makes the film have a deeper meaning and gives the little boy a deeper philosophy. Life is spent in a fruitless search, and in the end it is hunched over in an unnoticed corner to summarize the past years.
Abbas' films are so slow that they can clearly reproduce even a bowl of water. This is very familiar to people who have lived in rural areas. There is no media interference, sparsely populated villages, adobe doors, and families with nothing but walls, every move is slow and leisurely, as if every time A sound can be remembered in my mind. Abbas's films are so real that there is nothing contrived. So, who said that a poor and blank life has no meaning and value? After watching this movie, the little boys are helping their families with housework and housework after class. Their simple and pure hearts and monotonous and simple interpersonal relationships, let us These people who are used to seeing the big city with feasts and feasts can't help covering their faces and sighing. Abbas uses his movies to remind us where is our real home. We are like that little boy in the dark night looking for the last ray of hope. Even if we don't give up, we can't find it in the end. He gives us reveals the meaning of life.
However, he didn't say anything from beginning to end. He was just documenting the process. Let us see through the picture poor Iran, clean children, monotonous work, no ups and downs and twists and turns, but like the little daisies in the written workbook, so beautiful and so pure.
In a small village where a tree is rarely seen, such a meaningful film was made. No wonder people call Abbas a master director.
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