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the color of paradise.
generally a cool film, beautifully shot, about a blind kid and his family. the village the family lives in is astonishingly beautiful. and because the main character is blind, the film makes interesting use of sound. it is basically a deeply religious film...
in this case this sensibility results in both moments of extraordarily balanced quiet--which are at times quite magical--punctuated by bizarre musical interludes.....i think there are moments when the film wants to give the impression of Big Illumination----this state of quasi-mystical vision is marked by everything slowing down and big goofy major chords being played by an orchestra hidden off camera, one that is much bigger than you could imagine.
and it is a shame. it is like the director does not trust the audience to follow the filmmaking and has to be forced into a cliche at critical moments. but it never reaches the levels of patronizing that are the particular "forte" of steven spielberg film.
another installment in our (extended) iranian film jag.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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