![]() The photography is breathtaking as father and son trek home from the busy streets of Tehran into traders' and jewelry shops, then to the green mountains and fertile plains in the heights of northern Iran. We can see and feel both, the beauties of the boy's surroundings, and his own world where touching and hearing replace seeing. His ability to let the audience experience both the visually impaired and visually unimpaired worlds without ever abandoning one for the other is simply remarkable. This is where writer director Majid Majidi's cinematic brilliancy comes into play. Being told that this is not possible, he reluctantly takes the boy home. Mohammad's dad finally shows up and requests that the school keep his son. ![]() He successfully rescues a baby bird, climbs a tree, and returns it to its nest. While waiting for his dad, the 8-year-old boy, although filled with anguish, did not shut himself down from the outside world. In fact, he shows up so much later than everyone else that Mohammad had almost lost hope of ever seeing him again. Hashem (Hossein Mahjub), Mohammad's father, is not eager to see him. The school is closing for the summer and students are being sent home to their parents most of them eagerly await their kids at the front gate just outside their dormitories. Mohammad attends a school for the blind in Tehran. He is filled with compassion and has unlimited abilities to reach out to the world around him. The lead character is a blind 8-year-old boy named Mohammad (Mohsen Ramezani). It is about faith and belief, unconditional love and compassion, hardship and hope and is both powerful and effective. ![]() His new motion picture "The Color of Paradise" is a real treat. He shows audiences that his country is not just a place where reform movements, revolutions, and embassy seizing take place but also where beautiful films are made. Majid Majidi, director and writer of the much-acclaimed "The Children of Heaven" has again proven to the world that he is able to demonstrate weighty ideas through simple depictions of everyday life in Iran. ![]()
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