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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great film from Iran,
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Directed by Majid Majidi, who would later helm the better known Children of Heaven, this Iranian film is set in a working class milieu, and it tells the story of a teenage boy, who after his father is killed in a traffic accident, has to leave school and start working in order to support his family. He is proud of being, at such a young age, the person bringing the bread to his poor family. But things change when his widowed mother marries a police officer. He regards this as a double betrayal, and he tries to make life for his family impossible. After putting his two young sisters in jeopardy (in a domestic oven, in one of the film's best scenes), he flees to a port city. The policeman follows him, and in the road back they found themselves in the desert, in a final chase scene that is among the best thing I ever saw. Eventually, and in extremis, adoptive father and son reconciles. Perhaps the best thing of the movie is the portrayal of the policeman. His manners are a bit rough and unpolished, but in his heart he is a good man; it would have been much easier for the film to portray him as a monster, but happily this was avoided. Another triumph for the humanistic Iranian cinema that surprised the movie-watching world in the 1990s (and which sadly, right now, seems to be going through a bad time, hurt by renewed censorship in the Islamic republic).
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
magnificent,
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majidi is brilliant. he has a finger on the pulse of humanity and and suffering with an eye toward redemption and truth. all of his work is special and beautiful and if you want to cry and be touched then explore his work. you will not be disappointed.
0 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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good,
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When the box arrived, the disk was loose inside and knocked around inside the box when the box was moved. However, I didn't observe any damage to the disk in shipment, and the film viewing was fine.
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