Abbas' film "Where Is My Friend's Home" feels a lot like an Iranian fable to me. In particular, there is a scene where an adult rides a donkey up the mountain and a child chases after him, which is very similar to the story of Avanti. This film is in cooperation with children's educational institutions, so the content is more like a feature film that highlights the light of children's humanity.
Children are really the purest and simplest. For a very simple reason, in order to return their friends' homework books, they can no longer be scolded by teachers, and they can give away the books three times regardless of their fatigue. They have the purest kindness in them. And he is very firm in his goals, which is very touching. And the little boy actor in the movie has very clear eyes, pure and distressed.
It can be seen in the movie that the status and existence of children are very low. When children ask questions and have demands, adults are almost ignorant and indifferent. Adults are very disrespectful to children. Adults always treat children as children, and feel like they are Laozi, "You have to listen to me, or beat me if you don't." In their opinion, children are naughty and thoughtless. Teachers are also very dogmatic, thinking that those who do not do homework and obey discipline are bad students, do not listen to their inner needs, and do not respect their nature. At the beginning, Lin Ma suddenly burst into tears when he was told that he lied and did not do his homework and could not hand in his homework book. That moment was very resonant and made me want to cry.
The adults here make the children very afraid of them. They only think that it is right to abide by the law, respect their parents, and do more for the family. Any other behavior is wrong. When the little boy is looking for a friend's house, the children he meets on the road will enthusiastically give him directions, which is in stark contrast to the indifferent and indifferent adults around him.
But in the second half of the movie, a very enthusiastic old man takes a little boy to find a friend's house. He is the dawn that the director left to the adults, and the only one who keeps his original intention beautiful. There are many shadows of windows on the way he and the little boy walked at night, which also means the praise of the Holy Light.
There is a paragraph near the end of the movie, the little boy is preparing to do his homework at home, and a cold wind blows in from the window, as if the coldness of all the adult world is blowing in his face, what is the little boy thinking at that moment. When we saw that he came with two notebooks made for friends at the end, a warm feeling rushed towards us watching the movie.
Abbas is really good. His films do not have too much religion and politics, but are more about the natural concern of human nature or the poetry of life. There are a lot of movies that also come from poetry collections. Always gently soothe our injured. All his films are worth watching
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