The whole film revolves around his sister's little shoes. The story tells that Ali accidentally lost his little sister's only little shoes when he was shopping, but the poor family couldn't bear the pressure of buying another pair of shoes, so brothers and sisters had to rotate. Wear shoes to class. In a sports competition, Ali promised his sister the third place to win a new pair of shoes for her, but she won the championship by accident. The story construction of the whole film is simple, and the camera movement and actor scheduling are also the simplest and the least skillful. A gluttonous feast, accompanied by the play, the audience travels back to the past and returns to the purest self. Later, Wang Xiaoshuai's "Seventeen-Year-Old Bicycle" handled the loss of bicycles and small shoes in the same way.
Everyone has an id in their heart. The director tries to let the audience follow the little actors in the play to wake up the ego in our adult heart. The essence is the process of finding ego. The world in the eyes of children is always beautiful, and they are so enthusiastic and childlike about everything that happens. When Ali told her sister that she lost her only small shoe, although her sister would be very sad and worried about going to school. However, I will still consider the situation of my brother Ali and the actual situation of the whole family, and choose to go to school in boys' shoes that are worn out, relatively dirty and still relatively large. Every time the two brothers and sisters are in class and after class, they are running in exchange for each other's class permissions. Although the two sometimes complain about each other's faults, they still persevere considering family factors. Perhaps what infects our viewers is the non-stop running time and time again, the two brothers and sisters who gave up their childhood wishes that were not a dream because of the difficulties of the family. Occasionally, when the teacher gave a lecture after class, the younger sister found the pair of shoes she had lost. She tried her best to take her brother to find the girl for it, but when she saw the girl's blind father and the same suffering family, the child's heart instinctively The kindness finally chose to give up. In the process, the girl gradually had an intersection with her sister, especially when the girl picked up the pen she accidentally lost and returned it to her sister. It may be because of luck, the girl's father bought new shoes for the girl, but the old pair of shoes still did not return to her sister's hands. Adult or not, everyone's world is full of variables.
The film also uses the contrast of behavior in adults and children to provoke viewers to think. What is more impressive is that my sister accidentally dropped her shoes into the water in the street because of the large shoes when she was running home. In the process of the younger sister chasing the shoes, the viewer's heart also fluctuated with the younger sister's running. The shoe was eventually stuck in the waterway, and the younger sister was helpless and could only cry on the street alone. When the shoe was retrieved with the help of an adult, the viewer's heart finally let go, even though it was just a shoe. Although most of this scene is a children's scene, when returning to innocence, I still think about how adults deal with it? In the scene where Ali accompanies his father to build a garden for others in the bustling city, out of the dignity of an adult and social experience, at first the father was ashamed to be a gardener for others, but the young son Ali was in There is no shame in this. Under the leadership of his son, the father successfully got an opportunity to tidy up the garden and made a lot of money. The obvious contrast between Ali and his father shows that our adult society will have various restrictions and differences, and these so-called regulations no longer exist in childhood. The director uses this setting to show his deep understanding of the adult world. thinking. In the games, Ali's wish was the third place, just for that pair of shoes, but God did not satisfy Ali's wish but let him win the championship. After it was over, the principal and teachers of the school took photos with the trophy and leaders, and no one cared about Ali crying. The end of the film is the most sobering. For children, fame and fortune are not so important to them. What they want is the pair of small shoes in their hearts, and they don't care whether it is the champion or the third runner-up. Adults, on the other hand, put more emphasis on fame and money.
Iranian director Majid Majidi brings some deep thinking to the poor region of Iran with the refreshing film "Little Shoes", and brings some deep thinking to this complex adult society.
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