We know that because of the harsh political censorship and religious taboos, Iranian films, both in terms of content and subject matter, tend to shy away from the subtle and even slightly "light" women and children It is precisely because of the difference in the subject matter and angle of concern that Iranian films are always full of unique flavor and charm - not only a prehistoric, pure and quiet idea, but also a strong third-world philosophy of suffering.
In "Colors of Heaven", natural elements, whether they are physical plants, flowers, mountains, crops, thatched huts, or dynamic wind, flowing water, birds, and human activities, are deeply primitive, quiet, and beautiful. Mindfulness, these beautiful things call for clear eyes to scan it with "high imaging", but the blind boy Muhammad could not use his first sense to understand the world he lives in. What is valuable is , he has a keen and kind heart, and despite the abandonment of the Lord and his father, he can still build a beautiful kingdom in his heart. In this country, you can have a heart-to-heart bond with your grandma and sister, and you can measure it with your hands and ears "with your heart" - the poetic habitation of life and all things.
However, different from the poetry and beauty of the external world, the misfortune of human beings in this world is a kind of eternal existence of noumenon. For the poor and miserable father and the blind boy Muhammad, they were both deep in the quagmire of bitterness and questioned the Lord about their fate in the abyss. My father refuted my mother:
Why can't your Almighty Lord help me out of this predicament? Why should I be grateful? For something I didn't have? For my predicament? For my blind child? For my lost wife? ... The
blind boy Muhammad also complained to the teacher:
No one loves me, not even my grandmother. They all left me because I was blind. If I could see, I could go to school like everyone else, but now, I have to go to school for the blind, just like on the other side of the world. The teacher said that the Lord loves the blind because they cannot see. But, I said that if this is the case, God won't make us blind, so we can't see God...
Can the Lord hear people’s questioning, calling, and wailing? In the film, the Lord is absent, and, for the unfortunate father, grandmother, and Muhammad, the Lord and the religion of the Lord are not even the opium for pain relief. Lord and heaven, when will it be necessary to leave the throne and bow down to the unfortunate people? In the film, only after the blind child is drowned by the flood, he is willing to cast a bunch of golden heavenly colors, giving people a slight imaginative comfort.
The philosophy of suffering in the third world mentioned above is exactly what it means to express, that is, how frivolous the existence and preaching of religions seem to the profound suffering of the world! Maybe it's just a little imaginative soothing.
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