The battle between affection and reality

Clarissa 2022-04-21 09:03:48

The teacher told me that God loves everyone, he loves blind people more, but no one loves me. Muhammad finally couldn't hold back and cried. In the short 90-minute film, the first scene touched me deeply. When Mohammed was the only one left on the campus, his attention was drawn away by the rapid sound of birdsong. His keen hearing let him know that the sound was unusual. There are young birds, there are adults, and they are very fast. It was the newborn bird that fell, he thought. Another stray cat meowing. This is a threat. Muhammad used his voice to frighten the kitten away. Then he groped for the source of the bird's sound. Every step was trembling, and he stretched out his hand and walked forward. When he was almost there, he groped carefully among the fallen leaves with his hands. Even more unimaginable is that when Mohammed actually touched the bird, he actually put it back on the tree! Even more incredible, he did it. When Mohammed tapped the bird's beak with his finger, he laughed. I think he imagined himself as the little bird, and finally returned to the big bird's side, his uneasy heart was comforted, and he stayed quietly under the wings of his parents. In fact, this scene uses an ironic method. Because of Muhammad in reality, no one sent his fallen "bird" back to the warm "nest". In the end, he could only go to heaven, look for his grandmother, and see the color of family affection. A father is an important role in a child's life. However, in Muhammad's life, it was a cruel character. When the father appeared for the first time, he didn't hug Moman directly, but looked at him from behind the bushes. His wife died and he wanted to continue the string. The blind child became a burden. How to deal with this child? Facing a choice for the first time, the balance turned towards his own happiness, and his father applied to the school to keep Murman in school. Of course, the choice did not come true. His father took Moman back to his hometown. The matter of the continuation forced him to make a second choice soon, a bride or a blind child? The scales still turned towards him. But this time, there was more hesitation. The scene on the beach and the director's malicious setting always made people misunderstand that Mo Man's life would be ruined here. The father's heart is a little redeemed here. The grandmother was forced to die, and the father faced the third choice, which was different from the first two. At this time, his marriage contract had ended. According to common sense, there should be no other concerns about bringing back Moman, but the road went deeper and deeper. The woods were dead, and the director began to simulate the moment before death. The scene was so realistic that there was no doubt: this time, Murman should be dead, right? This is the question I asked when I saw this. It's a pity that Moman didn't die in his father's hands. God blesses the blind man and wants to take him back to heaven. Murman fell into the water, and his father faced a fourth choice: let him go, the devil said. When the father held Muhammad's body, was he repenting? What will he think? I wonder if my father treated the blind child Muhammad in the same way when my mother was alive. In the director's arrangement, the father's first appearance set the tone for the entire father-son relationship. Those complicated eyes, the father's negotiation with the principal, and the interaction with Muhammad, did not show at all the responsibility and affection a father should have for his son. Throughout the film, the four choices faced by the father are the most cruel tests of the soul. When the plot was in-depth, I was always worried about which scene, whether Dad would suddenly throw Mohamed away. Yes, such a child would be a burden to ordinary families. Father is not easy, the pressure of life, the distress of life, he has nowhere to tell. However, none of this constitutes a reason. I cannot accept his choice. Because, Muhammad, is a child. A child is a child, and when the sun shines in, all the haze disappears. This is the color of heaven. When he ran in the field, hugged his grandma, and gave gifts to his sisters, all the unhappiness and doubts disappeared. When he embraces the sun, touches grains, strokes grandma's face, and presses the protruding Braille with sensitive fingers, when he is learning knowledge, it is the most childish time. Grandma, in the film, is a crucial role for Muhammad. She should be the one who will always stand by Muhammad's side when he recalls it. Even if he can't see it, Muhammad knows that grandma's hands must be white and beautiful. Even if he can't see it, Muhammad knows that grandma's smile must be the most beautiful. Grandma is the best grandma in the world. Fortunately, he still has a grandmother. The tape that recorded grandma's voice should have been listened to countless times by Muhammad. When you are homesick, when you are wronged, when you are alone, you will feel at home when you hold it. Mohammed was excited to finally be able to see his grandmother. When he found out that his grandmother was working in the fields, he resolutely decided to find her by himself. The mischievous Muhammad also wanted to hide behind a big tree with his grandmother. But he was afraid that his grandmother could not find him, so he couldn't hold back his anger and panicked. Although Grandma had walked beside him, he couldn't see it. So he shouted loudly, "Beautiful grandma, I'm here!" Beside grandma, Mohammed was a child. And he has to pretend to be an adult, a mysterious, cute child. Standing in front of three large water jugs, his grandmother told him to make a wish with God before spreading flowers. What was Muhammad's promise to God? What does he want God to give him? A father who loves him? Grandma is always young and always by his side? Sisters grow up happily? learn more knowledge? Too much too much, am I being too greedy? But looking at Muhammad, I really want to give him a lot. Because he really has too little, too little. In the end, grandma was unable to defeat the power of God, and left Muhammad to go to heaven where good people will go. What does it mean for a family to have a child with disabilities? Children with disabilities are still children after all. Great family love, in the face of reality, is it really so vulnerable? Is reality really so cruel? In the whole film, there is no mention of the support given to this family by other social resources, such as the government, the community, and the school, are they all absent? If they could get a little support, wouldn't the Mohammed family not have come to such a situation? The family is a part of the society, but the society is the last support of the family. The society should take responsibility for the families of children with disabilities and support them, so that families can support the children. Standing in front of three large water jugs, his grandmother told him to make a wish with God before spreading flowers. What was Muhammad's promise to God? What does he want God to give him? A father who loves him? Grandma is always young and always by his side? Sisters grow up happily? learn more knowledge? Too much too much, am I being too greedy? But looking at Muhammad, I really want to give him a lot. Because he really has too little, too little. In the end, grandma was unable to defeat the power of God, and left Muhammad to go to heaven where good people will go. What does it mean for a family to have a child with disabilities? Children with disabilities are still children after all. Great family love, in the face of reality, is it really so vulnerable? Is reality really so cruel? In the whole film, there is no mention of the support given to this family by other social resources, such as the government, the community, and the school, are they all absent? If they could get a little support, wouldn't the Mohammed family not have come to such a situation? The family is a part of the society, but the society is the last support of the family. The society should take responsibility for the families of children with disabilities and support them, so that families can support the children.

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  • Leonel 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    The ending was abrupt and short, and the sense of collapse came with a bang. Two times to pick up the child and go home, but it is a completely different end point. Awesome ambient sound.

  • Camylle 2022-03-24 09:03:50

    The child said the part about the blind man and God brought tears to his face... The ending is so good...

The Color of Paradise quotes

  • Mohammad: [crying] Our teacher says that God loves the blind more because they can't see. But I told him if it was so, He would not make us blind so that we can't see Him. He answered "God is not visible. He is everywhere. You can feel Him. You see Him through your fingertips." / Now I reach out everywhere for God till the day my hands touch Him and tell Him everything, even all the secrets in my heart.

  • Mohammad: [crying] Nobody loves me because I'm blind.