This movie is not long, but it makes me a little anxious. The little Iranian boy Ahmed struggled to find his friend Mohammed, but his original clear and single goal was constantly disturbed by unrelated emergencies, and the unknown destination also added secrecy to the whole film with uncertainty. The film gives me the feeling that there is a fog blocking my eyes from beginning to end, and this fog hinders the meeting between Ahmed and Muhammad, and also hinders the effective communication between people (the film between Ahmed and Muhammad in the film). The communication between the adults - including the teacher and his mother - was basically ineffective, they hardly listened to what he was saying, but just repeated their words domineeringly, is the director here alluding to Iranian education? The question?) Compared to the physical distance from Muhammad's home, Ahmed's spiritual distance from others (excluding his friends) is so far away, and when will this barrier of spiritual communication be broken?
What made me relieved was that Ahmed's almost "naive" patience and tenacity made him never flinch due to difficulties from beginning to end. This is the stubbornness and simplicity of a child's mind without distractions. In order to save his friends from the bad luck of dropping out of school, he sacrificed his sleep to finish the homework for two people overnight, drawing a warm ending to the film crookedly.
May every story in life end like this.
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