The second half made me laugh happily.
This movie reminded me of my grandparents, and of many funny stories I witnessed or heard about people in old age, and their own unique naivety, clumsiness and sloth. But all these negative traits give a sweet touch to a character, especially when you look back with an open minded nostalgia, just like the following notes in a piece change the whole feeling the song gave you until that moment.
And this is what I see Kiarostami putting into frame. Also, the playful solution the children found for the situation grandpa put them in shows another world alomost apart from the first one, that of the children. But it's a curious thing to notice how the children and the elderly have a peculiar relationship among each-other.
Where I'm from they say "Old age is like childhood."
This movie reminded me of my grandparents, and of many funny stories I witnessed or heard about people in old age, and their own unique naivety, clumsiness and sloth. But all these negative traits give a sweet touch to a character, especially when you look back with an open minded nostalgia, just like the following notes in a piece change the whole feeling the song gave you until that moment.
And this is what I see Kiarostami putting into frame. Also, the playful solution the children found for the situation grandpa put them in shows another world alomost apart from the first one, that of the children. But it's a curious thing to notice how the children and the elderly have a peculiar relationship among each-other.
Where I'm from they say "Old age is like childhood."