Charming "MacGuffin"

Conrad 2022-04-23 07:05:24

1. The mother didn't listen to the little boy Amud's story at all, but just thought that the child just wanted to play without doing his homework. And Ahmed has been persistently repeating that one of the characteristics that distinguishes children from adults is repetition, and explains why he thinks it is important. This was also reflected in the subsequent questioning.
2. When discovering Muhammad's workbook, the director expressed Amud's astonishment and entanglement, and also expressed that he was the only one who knew about it and ignored it by outsiders, which easily triggered the audience's empathy.
3. Ahmed's obsession reminds me of the same obsession as a child. The teacher lied to my father that he didn’t pay the tuition fee, so I kept chasing after my father who didn’t notice me and left on the motorcycle; I helped the kindergarten teacher distribute the snacks that day, because a classmate forgot to take it, I thought he should get the snacks , and kept chasing him to his house to give him snacks. Like Ahmed chasing Muhammad's suspected father.
4. The Iranian wasteland is the background, the fixed depth of field lens, and the tiny Amud skips it.
5. The old man who had cigarettes but asked Ahmed to take them. From his conversation with another old man, we can see the failure of traditional Iranian family education.
6. The adults are delaying Ahmed without knowing the importance.
7. The complexity of the world is just as there are many Muhammads in this world, and there are also many children in brown pants.
8. The door is the memory of the old craftsman about the Iranian city. The old man walked with Amud in vain. It can be seen that the old man, like the child, likes meaningless things.
9. The flowers in the workbook at the end become the witnesses of friendship. "Last Minute Rescue" mode.

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Extended Reading
  • Margarita 2022-02-03 08:04:25

    Running back and forth many times, tirelessly, if you were an adult, you might have been impatient, especially the third time Amud ran behind with the donkey rider, a burst of sadness. Indeed, a child's innocence and pure heart are the most precious things in the world. Abbas used a simple, ordinary and ordinary story to describe a very extraordinary childhood experience, which also hides many worthwhile things. The small details that have been remembered for a long time are in it.

  • Freda 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    Great Abbas! Always be able to use a light story, a little bit of justice to the complexity of the adult world. If Majid Majidi's "Little Shoes" makes people see the golden innocence, then this film makes people see innocence, and at the same time digs into the "social system and human ignorance crushing personality and beauty". It was the tip of a knife that licked blood - if you didn't say it well, you would be sealed, and even become an enemy of the world, but Abbas did it easily. On the bright line, children must find a friend's home, and on the dark line, the elderly must live in the countryside, keep their own craftsmanship of making old wooden doors, and use "good-looking and different wooden doors (personality)" and "solid and homogeneous iron doors (commonness)" "As a collision, it is a metaphor for the system's oppression of people, whether it is family education, school education, or social education, the oppression exists, and it seamlessly transforms people, and people also obediently hold hands, obliterate their individuality, and blindly submit to the system. From the victims of the system to the supporters of the system. Naturally, the flower that the old man picked for the child, which symbolized simplicity and individuality, was also compressed and air-dried to become a specimen. So, where is my friend's pure and beautiful home for mankind?

Where Is the Friend's House? quotes

  • Grandfather's Friend: What I mean to say is, suppose the kid did nothing wrong. What would you do? What then?

    Grandfather: I'd find an excuse and give him a beating every other week. So he wouldn't forget.