Here I present: مجید مجیدیMajid Majidi , “The Color of Paradise”, 1999 Persian film.
INTRODUCTION.
Director Majid Majidi is the screenwriter of his Persian language 1999 film “The Color of Persian Paradise”. Braille is what protagonist (Mohammad) of the story uses. The antagonist (Hashem) of the story is father of the blind son (protagonist).
“Braille” is the name of system of writing, based upon six raised dots; which, was created in 1821 by French schoolboy Louis Braille. “Braille” is a medium through which visually-blind people can learn to read and write (shown ABOVE in the alphabet table). Louis Braille’s 1821 system of Braille printing allowed for the blind to read.
FILM PLOT.
A blind boy named Mohammad is released from his special school in Tehran for summer vacation. His father, Hashem, shamed and burdened by Mohammad’s blindness, arrives late to pick him up and then tries to convince the headmaster to keep Mohammad over the summer. The headmaster refuses, so Hashem eventually takes Mohammad home.
Hashem, who is a widower, wants to marry a local woman and prepares for the wedding. He approaches the woman’s parents with gifts, and they give him their blessing. He attempts to hide the fact that his son is blind because he fears that the woman’s family will see it as a bad omen.
Meanwhile, Mohammad happily roams around the hills of his village with his sisters. He touches and feels the nature around him, displaying a unique attitude toward it and seeming to understand its rhythms and textures as a language. He goes to the local school with his sisters and reads the lessons from the textbook in Braille, which amazes the other students and the teacher.
