Another beautiful film from Director Majid Majidi. His movies always oozes with such human elements that it's hard to not like them. Few of the themes explored in the movie may have religious undertones, but it's about nature and God in quite a general way, rather than preaching a particular view. The movie is deliberately simplistic in nature, but quite charming and delightful at the same time.
The sequence in the beginning where the blind boy rescues a baby bird, climbs the tree and puts it back in the nest is an amazing scene, and says so much about the character in such a short instant. All the characters in the movie are interesting; there are mainly three - the blind boy (Mohammad), his father, and his grandma.
What might be a burden for someone may be a blessing for someone else. Life is what we make of it. Who is the one actually blind, the boy or the people around him? What do we actually see around us? The absence of one sense makes the other senses so acute. The boy was much more attuned to his surrounding environment than anyone else.
There's no actual background music used in the movie, but it utilizes the sounds of nature to tell about the environment, which is even more effective.
The ending feels a little contrived, but it's upto satisfaction. The last shot of the boy still trying to read the sound of birds, as if in braille, in search of God or Paradise says a thousand words.
The sequence in the beginning where the blind boy rescues a baby bird, climbs the tree and puts it back in the nest is an amazing scene, and says so much about the character in such a short instant. All the characters in the movie are interesting; there are mainly three - the blind boy (Mohammad), his father, and his grandma.
What might be a burden for someone may be a blessing for someone else. Life is what we make of it. Who is the one actually blind, the boy or the people around him? What do we actually see around us? The absence of one sense makes the other senses so acute. The boy was much more attuned to his surrounding environment than anyone else.
There's no actual background music used in the movie, but it utilizes the sounds of nature to tell about the environment, which is even more effective.
The ending feels a little contrived, but it's upto satisfaction. The last shot of the boy still trying to read the sound of birds, as if in braille, in search of God or Paradise says a thousand words.