an Iranian film in which the protagonist is a 9 year old boy that comes from a family with very little resources. One day he went to pick up his sister's shoes that were in the shoe back home and stopped for bread and some potatoes, and issues of fate is the stray shoes. Due to the few resources they have they were the only pair of his sister, and this is concerned as it will go the next day at school. The truth is that devised a plan so they can go to school and not have to tell their parents because Ali understands that his father had no money and most likely is finished bother hitting them both. The film goes on the journey that the child lives to get a pair of shoes to his sister, his parents have no more worries of which already have and it should continue with their daily activities.
maturity of the child's character is well developed, and is very hard to see which way gives balance to the family and as a struggle with everything that is in their power to make everyone happy, even at the expense of their own happiness. There comes a time when what he wants and is not important, in fact has never been important, the only objective is to get a pair of new shoes to her little sister.
film director Majid Majidi is also the writer and is simply a genius. Really the story is simple and straightforward, yet becomes so deep, touching and exasperating. The mastery of the script is not very complicated to tell a story, but that takes time to show family and social conditions in which it develops and makes you understand the position of absolutely everyone. With a single scene understand why the sister asks her not to tell the mother, but with another insistidera understand because the sister to get him a new pair, and another understand why he does everything he does for make happy her sister, and because of great achievements rather than get all that was important was her sister nothing, neither better nor worse. The footage of the city are very natural, at times actually feel like you're looking for a small hole to run through the streets Ali, or his sister after school. The director does wonders for the actors as well, the last scene, without any kind of dialogue is a work of art.
The film was nominated for an Oscar in 1998 and gave to her for purely accidental nature of life, after seeing it was that I learned of this fact. It is the first and only nomination for Iran in this category and should not care and if you win. I am loyal fan of life is beautiful and is one of my favorite movies, but this year was so great for the foreign category, Central Do Brasil, Tango, never leave me: Life is Beautiful and Children of Heaven ( still do not see the English "El Abuelo", which is the fifth nominee that year). Each film has some excellent, Central do Brasil is the perfect movie. And indeed I do not know who I would give it the Oscar, La Bella Vita is for me a classic but not if you compare with the realism and the "cruelty" of Central Do Brasil, or Children of Heaven. I think I finally give it to Children of Heaven, I really have to see this movie.
Best: the end, all really
Worst: that nobody knows. The little impact that can have a film of such high level, only for reasons of low budget films or for not being in English.
Note: 9.5 / 10
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