Where Is My Friend's House
1987 / Iran / Drama / Abbas Kiarostami / Babek Ahmed Poor, Ahmed Ahmed Poor
Watched
Jul 25, 2024 5:28 AMA quirky film, made on a shoestring budget, with unfiltered, simplistic visuals that resemble the ramblings of a storybook or an NPC in a game. It features pure, kind, calm, and persistent boys and other children, strangely merging with the bizarre world of adults. The film vividly portrays the hustle and bustle of society, poverty, and a hierarchical system of respect based on false identities, mercilessly slaughtering the development of a healthy personality day after day. The movie intentionally creates a sense of calm; everyone is incredibly calm, peacefully living within this framework, even a child who returns home in the middle of the night after being away for half a day faces no harsh punishment. This calmness is better described as numbness, where anything that happens to anyone is just so. The film is romantic, so romantic that a flower unexpectedly falls out of a crumpled notebook in a dilapidated classroom, a cute little yellow flower that is completely out of place with the soil.
A quirky film, made on a shoestring budget, with unfiltered, simplistic visuals that resemble the ramblings of a storybook or an NPC in a game. It features pure, kind, calm, and persistent boys and other children, strangely merging with the bizarre world of adults. The film vividly portrays the hustle and bustle of society, poverty, and a hierarchical system of respect based on false identities, mercilessly slaughtering the development of a healthy personality day after day. The movie intentionally creates a sense of calm; everyone is incredibly calm, peacefully living within this framework, even a child who returns home in the middle of the night after being away for half a day faces no harsh punishment. This calmness is better described as numbness, where anything that happens to anyone is just so. The film is romantic, so romantic that a flower unexpectedly falls out of a crumpled notebook in a dilapidated classroom, a cute little yellow flower that is completely out of place with the soil.
Watched
Jul 24, 2024 9:28 PM