"Children of Heaven", also known as "Little Shoes", and "Colors of Heaven" are both works directed by Majid Majidi. The most famous "Little Shoes" is full of children's innocence and simplicity; I prefer "The Color of Heaven", which has more life contradictions and stronger emotional tension. It is a film that explores human nature.
"Colors of Heaven" starts from the school life of a group of visually impaired children. They cannot see the color of the world, only black without color. The world they can feel is the sound that their ears can hear and the touch that their fingertips can feel.
During the summer vacation, only Mohammed was left in the school, and he had been waiting for his father to pick him up and return to his real home. Finally, the father took his son home, but he was hesitant to get rid of his son's oil bottle. His father's heart was full of depression. The loss of his father since childhood, the early death of his wife, and the heavy responsibility of supporting the family left him nowhere to vent his emotions. His intention to remarry was to obtain emotional happiness.
After returning home, Muhammad only enjoyed a brief reunion with his family. Even if he did not want to, he was sent by his father to a blind carpenter to learn carpentry. From my father's point of view, it was a good arrangement to learn a skill that would keep Muhammad alive. The grandmother, who loved her grandson, ran away from home when she found out, and was persuaded by her father to go home, but fell ill and died. After his father's remarriage was annulled, he went to pick up Muhammad home, and Muhammad unfortunately fell into the river on the river bridge in the fog forest on the way. Still hesitant, the father finally decided to jump into the river to save Muhammad. It was a pity that it was too late. At the end of the film, the father cried with guilt while holding Muhammad on the shore, and Muhammad felt the light that God gave him—father’s love at his fingertips.
Whenever my father hesitated towards Muhammad, there would be a terrifying voice from the depths of the forest, a warning and judgment of his dangerous desires.
The most memorable dialogue in the film is Muhammad's cry when he was abandoned by his father.
Ali the carpenter asked, "Why are you crying? Men shouldn't cry. Are you feeling homesick?"
Muhammad said, "No. You know no one loves me, not even my grandma, 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. A school for the blind, it's like on the other side of the world. The teacher said that God loves the blind because they can't see. But I said if that's the case, God won't let us go blind, so we can't see God. The teacher replied, God is invisible, he's everywhere, you can feel him, you know him with your fingertips. Now I keep reaching out until one day I feel God's presence and tell him everything, even me inner secret."
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