The Color of Paradise 天堂的顏色
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.
八歲的墨曼(Mohsen Ramezani)是盲人學校里最用功的孩子,視障也沒能妨礙他對美妙的自然萬物的獨特感受力,他時常虔誠地用雙手去找尋心中的上帝。然而,命運卻喜歡同他開玩笑,母親離去多年后,父親(Hossein Mahjoub) 為了再娶,決定甩掉他這個拖油瓶。父親先把墨曼從盲人學校接回家,在家鄉,墨曼從奶奶(Salameh Feyzi)與兩個妹妹那里,得到真摯的愛,感受到了秀美風景里所藏的快樂,快樂總是暫時的,他接著就被父親連拖帶拽送到了一個盲人木匠處當學徒…
推薦理由: 本片是《CHILDREN OF HEAVEN》(小鞋子)的姐妹片,同樣獲得蒙特利爾國際電影節的最佳影片獎,由此馬吉迪蟬聯了一獎項。伊朗電影的魅力更讓世人欽嘆。