Children of Heaven

       Children of Heaven is a perfect movie for both adults and children, as far as I am concerned. It is written and directed by same person Majid Majidi in 1997. This Iranian family drama movie tells a story of a brother and sister and their interesting and adventurous things over a lost pair of pink shoes. 
      
        The film starts with Ali bringing his little sister’s pink shoes to be repaired. He leaves them on the grocer’s counter to buy some potatoes. While he is not paying attention on the hoes, a garbage man accidently took the pair of shoes away. In order to find them, the young boy Ali brought down over the grocer’s vegetable baskets. The grocer was deadly mad then chased Ali away from his store. He got home with guilt to his younger sister and with fear to his parents. Ali tells his sister about the shoes and begs her not to let their parents know and promise that he will find them back for her. During the days she doesn’t have the pink shoes. They decided to share Ali’s Converse sneakers walking back and forth from school to home. The whole movie is on a quite slow pace. But the plots go up and down quite often based on the pair of pink shoes.

        My favorite two scenes made me cry. When Ali’s sister sees his shoes are wore by a little girl in her school, she follows her and finds out how bad situation the family is and as well, the great communication they have in the family members. They give up asking her shoes back. The other scene is when Ali tries his great effort to get the third place in the running race only for getting the prize --- a pair of sneakers for his little sister. Unfortunately, he gets the number one. He is so upset and feels guilty when facing his sister back home. They are very cute couple of brother and sister. And the story between them is BEAUTIFUL!