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Disturbed me...

posted 17 years ago by TerribleAngelRosary
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..That adults didn't care for Ahmed. Expecially when he tries talking to who might be his friend's father (he doesn't answer) and then follows his donkey to the other village and still doesn't get noticed. The only "positive" character, besides the protagonist, might be the old man near the end, all the other seem to forget the little boy or consider him a threat. Some scenes gave me chills and made me feel uncomfortable, the long scenes of Ahmed trying to be understood are like a punch in the stomach. Btw a brilliant movie with a hopeful and meaningful ending.

Discuss.

[–] zitla 17 years ago

I think the point was that adults don't care about children's opinions and worries and they don't take them seriously. The film shows life as it is, and I think it's supposed to be a wake-up call for adults because in this film we're all identifying with the little boy and are forced to be in the child's place again.

And sometimes even as adults we're in the same position with "more important" persons: nobody's listening to us...

[–] geordiebianconeri 15 years ago

I can't believe what an ignorant bitch his mother is - for most of their conversation she responds to every sentence with 'do your homework' and is completely oblivious or unperturbed by the fact that the kid might get expelled. Then eventually she half listens and says 'give it to him tomorrow'

And yeah, for a while I thought his grandfather was Abe Simpson with his rambling, seemingly pointless stories, but it helped reinforce that 'adults know best' belief. Incidentally, did the kid really ask his mother to look for the cigarettes? I'd have thought that she'd be asking him where the hell he's been and why they haven't got any bread yet - and has he finished his homework...

"Wait till they get a load of me!"

[–] treccles 10 years ago

I'm not very good at finding "meaning" in movies, but it was pretty clear to me that this was a commentary on something, probably how the Iranian government treats its citizens.

I've seen a bunch of Iranian movies and at first, it drove me insane how people don't seem to listen to each other, like when the guy is saying he doesn't want a new door and the door maker just won't take "no" for an answer, or after the mother says the boy can't take the notebook to his friend and he keeps saying over and over, "I picked it up by mistake." How do these people ever get off high center?

But this sort of back-and-forth appears in all sorts of Iranian movies and I assume it's just a way they communicate.

[–] prplayer 8 years ago

yes, it was very realistic (a common trait in the director's style of film making) how the adults simply didn't care about the kid's problems

so many movies, so little time