Synopsis
Mohammad is a blind boy who goes to a school for the blind in Teheran. It? vacation and all his friends return to their families. But Mohammad? father arrives to pick up his son after everyone has left. His widower father is ashamed by Mohammad? blindness, and even hides the fact to his new wife to be. Mohammad unaware of this, is filled with hopes of meeting his grandmother and sister... Director Majid Majidi gives us the most sentimental film among all his Iranian contemporaries. Similar to many other Iranian films, the children are the true angels who give valuable lessons to the adults living in a cruel reality. But Majid Majidi seems to be the most convincing of the pack. The frequent close up of the hand in this film is the spirit of Majid himself, who is trying to touch and feel the pains of this world. A moon reflects upon a pond, and a clouds of mist covers the mountain. The idyllic country scenery not only caresses the pains of the blind boy but also touches the audience? soul. Just like a little bird that falls from the nest at the beginning of the film < The Color of Pridise > is about a painful homecoming of a blind boy. This movie gives us the essence of Iranian humanism. (SHIM Young-seop)