"Colors of Heaven" tells the story of how an eight-year-old blind boy, Mohammed, felt nature to find God. The movie starts with three minutes of darkness and various voiceovers. It turned out that the children in a blind elementary school messed up their tape recorders, and they could only tell by hearing with the help of the teacher. This scene makes people feel the helplessness of the blind world from the very beginning. Muhammad, an eight-year-old blind boy, questioned God because of his own experience: "No one loved me, not even my grandmother. They all left me because I was blind. If I could see If I could see, I could go to school like everyone else, but now, I have to go to a school for the blind, just like on the other side of the world. The teacher said that the Lord loves the blind because they can't see. But I say if it is true , God won't make us blind, so we can't see God. The teacher replied, 'The Lord is invisible. Omnipresent, you can feel it. You know with your fingertips.' Now, I keep reaching out, Until one day I feel God's presence. I'm going to tell him everything, even the secrets of my heart." He kept reaching out and putting the fallen bird back into the nest, feeling it with his touch. The faces and hands of fathers, grandmothers, and sisters, and the flowing wind, smell beautiful flowers, and hear birds, especially woodpeckers. Seeing this eight-year-old child so persistently looking for faith, I couldn't help but be moved, and at the same time, I suddenly felt very puzzled, what are we doing all day long?
His father also faced the same problem. He lost his father at a young age, lost his wife in middle age, and took care of three children and an old mother alone. The pressure of life made him no longer have faith. He even sees Muhammad as an obstacle to his remarriage, and does everything he can to get rid of him as a burden. He didn't pick him up after the holiday, and deliberately took him to a more dangerous place where he worked. Although some insurmountable boundaries were set, there is no doubt that in the heart of my father, some accidents happened. . In particular, the terrifying roars of wild beasts that came from the forest from time to time seemed to symbolize some dangerous desire in the father's heart. Those scenes, especially the brooding extension of the father, are really terrifying. Suddenly I found that if people were not afraid of anything, it would be really scary.
Later, due to the ruthlessness of his father, Mohammed was sent to the carpenter's house. The old grandmother left home on a stormy night to look for her grandson, but fell ill from the rain and finally died of the disease. His father's marriage also fell apart. The father came to the carpenter's house, hesitated at the door, and finally took Muhammad away. They were walking on a road that went in the same direction, and both father and son were silent. When passing a wooden bridge, his father's subconscious wish suddenly came true, the wooden bridge suddenly broke, and Mohammed fell into the rushing water. The father hesitated, but finally jumped into the water in an attempt to rescue his son. But in the end, this wish was difficult to achieve, and only the cold body of his son was retrieved.
In the film, the grandmother said that she was not worried about her grandson, Mohammed, who could not see, but was worried about her son, who had both eyes intact. Adults often lose faith due to the pressure of life and the cruelty of reality, turn a blind eye to the world and God, and become dangerous to themselves and others. Kafka said that you can avoid the misery of the world, you are completely free to do so, it is also in your nature, but perhaps it is this avoidance that is the only misery that can be avoided. Although it is human nature to crave pleasure, it is human nature to avoid suffering. But sometimes it is possible to escape into greater or even irreparable misery.
At this time, the child often appears as a savior, such as Joshua in "Central Station", who uses his own innocence to impress the old man Dora's forgetfulness, so that she learns to miss, learn to remember, and learn how to love and Believe. When adults are lost in the lost river, and can't find their way back in the dark, children stand by the roadside and guide the way home.
Heaven, I think, has always been one of the central concerns of this film. Whether it is the son's belief and search, or the father's doubt and return, it all reflects people's yearning and expectation for heaven. I can't help but think of the "Heaven Now" I watched before. The film is about two Palestinian men who are recruited to be human bombs. The two were allowed to spend their last night with their families, but in order to keep it absolutely secret, they were not allowed to tell the family anything related to the mission. The next morning, the two were taken to the border and bombs were planted, hidden and undetectable. The operation didn't go as planned, however, and the two friends were separated, each with a bomb on them. So they had to face their own destiny, and had deep doubts and hesitations. Maybe only when life is really facing a desperate situation, people must create a paradise by themselves to resist the cruelty of reality.
Shi Tiesheng said that what one cannot do is to be disabled. Probably because of their various "disabilities", people have to build a heaven, so that they can resist the various darkness in the statement, see the color of heaven, and finally walk through life. In "Life is Like a String", the old blind man said to the little blind man that if you break a thousand strings, you can use the broken strings as medicine to cure your eyes. Just as his master told him that he could regain his sight by snapping off 800 sticks, he built a visible paradise in the heart of his apprentice through a white lie. If we don't know if heaven has changed because of our change, the only thing we can do is find a heaven of our own.
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