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Chapter 1628 May all strong people be happy!
"The film is told from the perspective of simple people. Although they live in poverty, they are not depressed, but try their best to make their lives better. People can be poor and endure pain, but they cannot succumb to it."

"Children from poor families can also enjoy happiness like heaven."

“The movie is very simple, but the good thing about it is that it is simple enough, with a simple story and simple characters. Perhaps it is this simplicity that has touched the audience, who are no longer simple, but the audience still simply likes the simple beauty. So we like the simplicity and beauty that this little shoe brings us.

I like the brother who ran desperately to get a pair of shoes for his sister, I like the sick mother who did not forget to make a cup of tea for his tired father, I like the rich grandfather who gave a generous salary to his hard-working father, I like the sister who gave her beloved shoes to another little girl, I like the poor little girl who picked up a beautiful pen but returned it to its original owner, I like the father who spent all his salary on his family but forgot to buy himself a motorcycle.

I like this movie that tells us that the world is still beautiful.”

These comments are all said to be from the first batch of moviegoers!
Of course, since the number of people was relatively small, the number of reviews did not increase until the film had its first special preview screening in China.

In fact, Li Yi's movies often give people the feeling that there is no need to distinguish between language and place.

What’s interesting is that the response to “Little Shoes” in China was very good, and many people did not feel isolated at all.

“Although ‘Little Shoes’ is a film set in Iranian society, its core is universal.

I have seen many movies about poverty, but none of them has such a smooth narrative. In fact, this kind of story is already a common script now, but it is rare to use a child's perspective to enter the world of poverty in a movie.

Children seem to have a stronger sense of idealization than adults.

Compared with the rich, the lower class is already an insignificant existence, and children's bodies are even smaller than that.

This is the composition of the film. While showing the lower-class environment of Iran, the director uses the lines of the dilapidated walls to squeeze Ali and his sister in.

The two children constantly appear in this squeezed and closed composition, which not only shows the poor environment, but also the weakness of the children. When it comes to the rich area, the director prefers to use a larger panoramic view than the poor area to show the wide pavilions in the rich area.

The contrast with richness is not only cleverly used in "big", but also in color. In the environment where the protagonist lives, we can hardly see other bright colors except the colors on the shoes of other children.

The rich area is different. The rich area is much brighter than the poor area in terms of color. In particular, green is used the most. In the poor area, there is not even a plant to be seen. In the rich area, the green plants can surround the protagonist. In the rich area full of green, the vitality appears more active. The film directly gives this contrast to the audience, and a visual message is transmitted to the audience's mind.

The lives of the poor are more tortuous. At the beginning of the movie, the protagonist is doing the same trivial things in life as usual. But an incident happened, which led to a series of annoying things.

The ditch appears many times in the movie, and the dirty water in the ditch also metaphorically represents the dirty living environment of the poor. Later, when the sister was running, her shoes happened to fall into the ditch. The ditch serves as a dual expression of the environment and the dramatic point. In addition, the foreshadowing of this dramatic point is also shown when the father and the protagonist go home after making money in the rich area. Before finding a family with a job, the father checked and repaired the bicycle twice, and the audience may have a hint in their mind that the bicycle will break down. Sure enough, just when they were planning their future life, their idealized life suffered a blow. The bicycle was a blow point that the director had already ambushed. The life of the poor will indeed have more unbearable and twists and turns.

Will the idealized world in the eyes of children come true? The film is not about the collision between the rich and the poor, but about the world from the perspective of children. When they see a weaker blind family, they will choose to help them leave, even if the small shoes originally belonged to them. The father did not steal religious sugar because there was no sugar in the tea. The protagonist does not care about the first place, but feels sad about the loss of the prize. This is the world that is extremely simple in the eyes of children. However, Ali's understanding has changed his identity. With an adult tone, he teaches his sister. But the ending of the movie is also proportional to the innocence of the children. In the end, the father bought new shoes, and this child's adult fairy tale ended.

What’s interesting is that the movie doesn’t vilify the rich, but rather tells a straightforward story. There are good and bad people in it, and this is reality. The movie doesn’t give the impression that the two classes are completely opposed.

The employer in "Little Shoes" was really generous and gave the poor generous rewards.

At first, seeing them being rejected and driven away again and again, I thought it would show that misfortune only favors the unfortunate. However, it turned out not to be the case. Instead, it was shown in a very realistic way: Are all poor people good? Not necessarily. Are all rich people bad? Of course not!

This is the real world.

Rather than conflict for the sake of conflict.

In "Little Shoes", there is no conflict of interest between the poor and the poor, and everyone helps each other. The gap between the poor and the rich is also broken by the playfulness of children.

At the same time, the film shows a kind of love for family and pure kindness, which moved us. Because there is always a child living in our hearts, who is our only safe haven after being hit by the cruel society. Only by returning there can we feel calm and savor the warmth. "

Of course, because the film is set against the backdrop of Iranian society, it can be said to be very interesting to many people who are completely unfamiliar with this country.

“To be honest, Iran has always been seen as a mysterious, backward country full of social problems, but this movie makes me feel completely different.

Maybe it’s because the movie itself was directed by our great Chinese director Li Yi, so many things in it are not difficult for us to understand.

Children from poor families have to grow up early. I think many people in China know this.

The movie shows what Ali did at the beginning. In fact, he only did a few things: go to the shoe repair shop to get his sister Sarah's shoes, buy bread, buy vegetables. He queued up like a group of adults, folded naan bread skillfully and carefully, and bought on credit from the owner of the convenience store. These things should be done by adults, but for Ali, he was doing things within his ability too early.

Later, he did not tell his family about the shoes. Although on the surface the movie makes Ali keep emphasizing that he would be beaten if he let his father know, in fact, through one scene after another, we know that Ali was not afraid of being blamed, but he knew that his father and mother had worked very hard to support the family and he did not want to add burden to the family.

However, because he is just a child, he has no other channels to obtain it, so when he gets the opportunity, he fights for it with all his might!
The second point, which is also amazing, is the devout faith and extremely correct outlook on life!
To be honest, these days, many movies and TV shows, especially TV shows, really destroy our three views. They feature all kinds of money worship, incorrect views on love, etc., which make people unable to help but smack their lips after watching them.

But in the movie "Little Shoes", there are very correct views.

In the movie, Ali's home is a messy shared courtyard and a bare rented house. There are hungry babies and a sick mother in bed. Life should have seemed hopeless, but instead of feeling desperate, it is full of warmth.

Mom asked Sarah to bring a cup of tea to Dad who was preparing sweets for the sacrifice.

When little Sarah brought the tea over, her father asked, "Where's the sugar?"

At that time, I thought, is my father stupid? Isn't there a pile of sweets in front of me?

I think most of the people who watched the movie felt confused like I did. After all, Ali’s father is not blind.

Of course, little Sarah also said this: "Aren't there a lot of things in front of you?"

The turning point was when Dad said: “This candy belongs to the mosque!”

Mom half-lay there and told Sarah directly that there was still sugar in the pot.

Such positive values ​​and such devout faith. Although the family is very poor, they clearly distinguish between public and private, and have no selfishness at all. Only children educated in this way will have a correct sense of right and wrong. So here we can also remind parents: teaching by words and deeds is the best way to educate.

I remember that every time there was a parent-teacher conference, the teacher would warn parents: Don't play with your phone or watch TV loudly while your child is doing homework. We must learn to think from their perspective. Children are already restraining their nature by doing homework, and parents are still playing in front of them. It's like eating pork elbow with five-spice sauce in front of a hungry beggar. What do you think the beggar will think? The beggar's thoughts are the thoughts of your children.

The third point is the enviable neighborhood relationship.

I don’t know when it started, but everyone came to the city, and after urbanization, everyone lived in high-rise buildings.

Many people don’t even know the people who live across the street from them, and they may not even visit them once a year.

Before that, in rural areas, not to mention neighbors, even people from the same village were basically familiar with each other.

We often say that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, but nowadays, this sentence has become less realistic.

And what is shown in the movie is the mutual help in poverty, which is the most valuable thing.

I remember the relationship between neighbors in the street interview in another movie directed by Li Yi, "Time Thieves". In fact, they are similar here. This really highlights the saying that a distant relative is not as good as a close neighbor.

In this film, Sarah returns the aunt's soup bowl and Ali delivers the soup. These make us feel that those winding narrow alleys are not cold walls, but warm neighborhood feelings.

It was these little things that made Sarah reveal that longing yet helpless look when she saw the little girl wearing her shoes holding her blind father's hand.

This is the kindness in the heart. There is a saying that goes: Between right and kindness, I choose kindness.

So Ali and his sister would rather go out in the wind and rain to change shoes than to ask for them back. This is a great kindness. It is not that I give you what I don’t need, but that I know you are in need, so I give you my best. It is this kindness that gave Sarah the courage. Before this, Sarah always envied her classmates’ shoes, but after this, I think Sarah will at least no longer feel inferior, because giving is being rich.

Of course, Ruoya also has good qualities. When she picked up the beautiful ballpoint pen, she also had no intention of keeping it for herself, but returned it to Sarah.

Even though she actually likes it.

But she knew it wasn't hers!

Of course, the movie also has a twist, or it can be said that it provides comfort to a sensible child like Ali.

In order to get the third place prize, sports shoes, Ali ran forward desperately. Even if he fell, he gritted his teeth and continued forward. This kind of forbearance and strength, compared with the tears after winning the championship, can better highlight the helplessness and bitterness behind success. Everyone was laughing and taking photos with the champion. No one asked Ali what he wanted or why he was crying. This crying was a kind of helplessness and despair. Because Ali could no longer think of any other way to give his sister a pair of shoes.

I believe that at that moment, few people would not be moved, especially because he was just a child, and in his innocent and simple heart, he had never had any other bad thoughts.

Some of you just have to rely on your own abilities to get it!

What a wonderful quality this is!
Nowadays, many of our children have improved material living conditions. They cry and ask their parents and grandparents to buy them for whatever they want. It is too easy for them to get things, so naturally, they lose the process of hard work and struggle.

What they don’t understand is how hard it is to get all this. Even though, the school often arranges some activities, such as the “Clean Plate Campaign”, etc., it is difficult for one or two such activities to really make the children understand that all this is not easy to come by!

Because often in the process of obtaining it, all they need to pay is a word!

The touching part of the movie is that Ali took off his shoes that were completely broken due to running, and painfully put his feet with many blisters in the patio to soak. His heart was broken. But he didn't know that his father was coming home and there were two pairs of brand new shoes in the basket.

Also, this is actually a movie that highlights love.

I saw 5 kinds of love. 1. Love between siblings; 2. Love between neighbors: including the children and grandfather who sent soup and the villa area; 3. Love between classmates: picking up a beautiful pen but insisting on returning it; 4. Love between teachers and students: Ali's teacher always gives Ali the most ordinary but most needed help and encouragement; 5. Love between husband and wife: Although there are only a few sentences about the dialogue between Ali's parents in the whole film, and more than half of them are quarrels. But I felt the deepest love. Ali's father blamed his mother for working, asked the landlord who was urging rent to go to him, and the first thing he thought of after getting money for gardening was to buy an electric iron for his mother. If I have it, if you want it, I will give it to you; as long as I have it, as long as you need it, I will give you everything.

Finally, I hope the brave will not be let down, and I hope the strong will be happy! "

(End of this chapter)