Movie: Children Of Heaven
Year: 1997
Director: Majid Majidi
Language: Persian
Synopsis: Ali takes his sister Zahra's shoes to the cobbler for repairing and loses it on his way back. What follows is their attempt to hide this fact from his dad who is a labourer and cannot afford a shoe immediately. Zahra has morning school and Ali has day school so as per Ali's advise they share a pair of shoes. Small adventures and mishaps keep happening during the course of the days and finally a window of opportunity comes when there is a race that Ali takes part to win the third prize which is a pair of sneakers
My own take: When we were kids and our elders used to tell us stories and there was this particular story which we found so amazing that everytime we would want to hear the same story. The elders would be bored yet we wanted to laugh exactly the way we had last time. and it was a genuine laugh that would start everytime we heard the story :) Children of Heaven leaves you with a very similar feeling. Its a story of nice people, who do the right thing always. there is a dad who instills the right values in his kids at every point. There is a brother who cares for his sister's comfort, his dad's problems, and his neighbours. The story leaves you with such a warm feeling that you actually feel the emotions of the movie moving you completely. The beauty of the story lies in its simplicity and the narration. A must watch if you like heart warming stories.
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