After the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iran put on the "face scarf" again, withdrew from the stage of modernization, and drew a clear line with the Western world. The repressive political and religious integration system in China has imprisoned and blocked the free will of the people, and this isolated development has also attracted misunderstanding and demonization from the outside world. Director Abbas Kiarostami's "Where Is My Friend's Home", filmed in 1987, brought the most ordinary day of a little boy in the Iranian countryside to the screen, and the camera followed the movement trajectory and perspective of Ahmed , calmly presents the simple and natural rural scenery of Iran, leading us to kiss the real sky of Iran.
The film tells the story of the little boy Ahmed who was afraid that his good friend Muhammad would be fired for not writing his homework in the workbook, so he went to look for a friend's home to return the workbook, but he didn't find it in the end. The viewing process is actually more like peeping at a little boy's spiritual diary. In this "journey", there are no ups and downs of storylines; no conventional tear-jerking moves; and no pretentious preaching. In the children's clear eyes, we admire Ahmud's little heroism; think about the causes of violence and mistrust; question school, family and social education.
Political and cultural tyranny subtly affects the value orientation of the ruled class, leading to the dislocation of warmth and freedom. If the purpose of children's growth education is only to be better embedded in the fixed grid of society, then the individualized way of thinking will be considered "wrong" and forced to be obliterated, but this kind of violation is initially hidden in the family In the love of family - in order to cultivate the child into a "personal useful to the society", violence education is carried out, and the subjectivity of the child is ignored under the pretext of "love for the child". This kind of education that deprives individuals of freedom in the name of love is deformed in itself, and it is even more powerless for children to resist.
In this journey of search, the ups and downs and difficulties are not due to the failure of every expectation. What restrains Amud and the audience and makes it hard to breathe is that under the absolute control of the family patriarch, the child does not have the right to return the workbook at the same desk. And the mission that the child had to return came from the oppression of the school's rights. In this double confrontation, Ahmed's short escape was not only a fearless courage to choose and face alone in the process of growing up, but also a sense of "freedom". another interpretation.
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