The Color of Paradise 天堂的颜色
The story revolves around a blind boy named Mohammed who is released from his special school in Tehran for summer vacation. His father, shamed and burdened by Mohammed's blindness, arrives late to pick him up and then tries to convince the headmaster to keep Mohammed over the summer. The headmaster refuses, so Mohammed's father eventually takes him home.
Mohammed's father, who is a widower, now wants to marry a local girl and is preparing for the wedding. He approaches the girl's parents with gifts and they give him approval. He tries to hide the fact that he has a blind son because he fears the girl's family will see that as a bad omen.
八岁的墨曼(Mohsen Ramezani)是盲人学校里最用功的孩子,视障也没能妨碍他对美妙的自然万物的独特感受力,他时常虔诚地用双手去找寻心中的上帝。然而,命运却喜欢同他开玩笑,母亲离去多年后,父亲(Hossein Mahjoub) 为了再娶,决定甩掉他这个拖油瓶。父亲先把墨曼从盲人学校接回家,在家乡,墨曼从奶奶(Salameh Feyzi)与两个妹妹那里,得到真挚的爱,感受到了秀美风景里所藏的快乐,快乐总是暂时的,他接着就被父亲连拖带拽送到了一个盲人木匠处当学徒…
推荐理由: 本片是《CHILDREN OF HEAVEN》(小鞋子)的姐妹片,同样获得蒙特利尔国际电影节的最佳影片奖,由此马吉迪蝉联了一奖项。伊朗电影的魅力更让世人钦叹。