Poster for the movie Song of the Sparrow
The film "Sparrow Song" is a feature film directed by Majid Majidi, a director known in Iran as "Spielberg of Asia", which was released in Iran in 2008. At the 58th Berlin International Film Festival, actor Mohammed Amir Najib won the Silver Bear Award for Best Actor for his role as father in the film. The film has a high score of 8.6 on Douban, and only less than 6,000 people have seen it, which is a niche film.
The film tells the story of a father who works on a farm, because when he was working at the ostrich park, he learned that his eldest daughter's hearing aid accidentally fell into the mire, so he rushed back to the mud pond to find the hearing aid, and when he arrived, he found that several little boys were helping to find it, and the father hurried down to the mire when he saw it.
The boys looked at their father, who had hurried in
The boys tell their fathers about their ideals, only to receive sneers and curses from their eager fathers. Because it is almost impossible to raise fish in a blocked quagmire, and it is full of sewage poured by people, as well as the silt formed, how to discharge these sewage is a problem, and it is impossible to raise fish here.
The little boy told his father about his ideals
In addition to the father's sneering and scolding, the hearing aid was finally found by the children. After returning home to bring it to my eldest daughter, I found that I had been soaked in the sewage in the mud pool, and I still couldn't hear anything after putting it on. The eldest daughter was about to take the exam, and the father had to take the hearing aid to repair. When I went to the clinic, the doctor said that this repair was not good, and he could only buy a new one, but the doctor did not know that their family could not afford to buy another pair of hearing aids.
The eldest daughter looked helpless after putting on a hearing aid that soaked in water
For this reason, the father had no choice but to leave the clinic and go back to the ostrich park to go to work, he wanted to go back to the owner of the ostrich park to pay her salary in advance, so that he could buy her a new pair of hearing aids before the eldest daughter's exam, but who knew that in the process of moving the ostrich, the ostrich was suddenly frightened and out of control. When the father saw this, he rushed to help, but forgot to close the fence of the ostrich park, and without people noticing, an ostrich secretly ran out.
When the workers found that the ostrich had gone far, they quickly chased it out, but how could people run past the ostrich, and finally lost the ostrich.
The crowd chased after the ostrich that had run out
At this time, his father was discouraged, and not only did he not advance his salary, but he also lost his job at the ostrich park because of the ostrich running out. When it gets dark, my father comes home and tells his wife that the ostrich park job is not suitable for him, so that his wife does not worry, he can find a job that suits him more. On the way to school the next day, the father told the eldest daughter not to worry, he would take the hearing aid to the city to repair.
His father came to town alone on a motorcycle, but the doctor in the city said that he could not fix it, so he had to return to the motorcycle in frustration and prepare to leave. At this time, he was treated by a person as a motorcycle for solicitors, and the introverted father looked at the "rich man" who was rushing to talk about business and did not have the embarrassment to explain, so he mistakenly began his journey of soliciting in the city.
Father counting money
Father spent a day in town as a guest, counting the money in his pocket, and found that it was more than his salary at the ostrich park. When he returned home, his father did not forget to buy some fruit for the children at home
Who ever thought that fate always loves to tease people, on the way home, the father did not pay attention to the fruit placed on the tail of the motorcycle sprinkled on the ground, and the fruit brought to the children after returning home was also very little.
Guests who take the car without giving money
After that, my father started a job as a solicitor in the city, and every day before returning home, he would pick up some waste products along the way and go home to subsidize the family.
Father who picked up scraps to go home
The more and more waste in the family, the sympathetic wife will always give some waste generously to the neighbors, and every time the father finds out, he will scold his wife and go back, and the wife feels humiliated and wronged.
Father picked up the scraps from his home
The father removed the waste products sent by the neighbor's wife
Under the scorching sun, his father carried the scraps torn from the neighbor's house
In order to get a higher income, my father followed others to the family power plant to deliver refrigerators. Unfamiliar with the route in the city, my father had to follow the line that delivered the appliances. But my father's motorcycle suddenly broke down, and when my father repaired the motorcycle, the team pulling the goods was long gone. Father did not know where to send the refrigerator, so he had to pull the refrigerator back home.
At night, my father could not sleep for a long time, sitting in the courtyard looking at the refrigerator that did not know where to send it, or felt that it should be returned, after all, no matter how poor a person is, he cannot be without dignity.
Early the next morning, my father came to town on a motorcycle with a refrigerator and looked around for a shop selling refrigerators to see if he could find a model match. Along the way, his father ran into a vendor who bought a refrigerator at a high price, but this did not make him shake his decision, he simply refused, and continued to ride a bicycle to find it.
Travel the city in search of his father, who sells refrigerators
The refrigerator shop owner appreciated his father's honest virtue and rewarded him with a tip when he paid the delivery fee
On the way home, the father found that his wife and children were selling flowers on the side of the road, and he angrily ran to accuse the children, punched and kicked the children, so he also felt humiliated, thinking that he did not need children to help make money no matter how hard he worked.
The angry father blamed his wife
The wife explained to the child that the son just wanted to raise money to buy goldfish, but the father could not understand that he felt that such a young child could have any ideals, but it was just fun.
The angry father took a pickaxe and prepared to smash the mud pond, but when he went to the mud pond, he found that the mud pond had been made by the children into a clear pond, and there were several sparrows flying freely on the water, and even built a nest.
Once a nest built by sparrows on a muddy waterhole
When my father was sorting out the waste when he returned home, he accidentally fell and fell, resulting in the inability to work. The children gathered around their father to pray for his father,praying that his injuries would soon be cured.
The father gradually understands the ideals of his children, and he also blames himself for not giving his children a good life, and wants to stifle their dreams.
The next day the father and the children went to the hospital in the city, and the friends were in the car and told their son the good news that they had bought the goldfish and put it under the flowerpot in the car. Soon, the children found that the plastic bucket containing the goldfish had broken a hole, and the children hurriedly moved the flower pot pressed on the bucket out of the car, and several children worked together to lift the bucket containing the fish to guard the bucket of hard-won goldfish. Probably because the children are too anxious, the goldfish in the bucket are all scattered on the ground, and the children's long-held dreams are completely shattered here, and they are no longer energetic and stunned.
After a few seconds, the children could not bear to see the goldfish all dead on the ground, so they pushed the goldfish into the small ditch next to them as quickly as possible, and the goldfish gradually swam to the distance, carrying the children's future and dreams to the distance.
On the way home, the father changed his usual serious image and sang songs to the lost children, and the children gradually showed their own smiles.
A few children put the only goldfish into the fish pond, into the once rotten quagmire, the birthplace that carried their dreams and qi ji.
Life is often like this, how can it be satisfactory? Even if it is a chicken feather, we must face the difficulties and dare to fight against all this injustice.
A few cute children in the Iranian countryside are unlikely to become millionaires, but they have dreams and dare to fight and work hard for it, which many of us cannot surpass.
I hope that everyone has a starry sky and composes extraordinary stars for this starry sky.
May everyone be able to stand up after being scaled by the ravages of life, haha!