Children of Heaven

If you haven't watched Children of Heaven, you have to! This Iranian movie is one of the best movies I have ever seen in my life...it was beautiful. Subhanallah,this movie will shake every bone in your body! The whole movie is about a pair of shoes.... If you own tons of shoes, you will really feel bad after watching it.

The story goes that Ali happened to lose his sister's shoes during an errand run, and coming from a poor family, that spells disaster. Not wanting to be punished for it, given that both understand the predicament they're in, and not wanting to trouble their parents with yet another expenditure, they devise an ingenious, somewhat mad hat plan, to share their shoes - Zahra goes to school in Ali's, before running back to exchange them so that Ali could attend his classes.

Subhanallah, you will cry just watching Zarah run from her school to meet her brother barefoot and give her the shoes, and how big the shoes look on Zahra's feet, how poor this family is, how innocent the kids faces are, how they understand their parent's circumstances and never tell them,knowing that it would add to their miserable financial circumstances!After watching this movie, seeing a story where a pair of lost shoes can be so important, you realize that you are very lucky to live in a time and place where you have never gone without such basic items as shoes. This film shows us a place where people may not have much, but they have what they need most of all, each other.

Here's the movie's trailer

Weekend Sumary

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This was me on Friday on our way to the movies.We saw Changelling, the new movie starring Angelina Jolie.The story is about a woman who returns home one day to find her son missing. She informed the police and a few months later the police return a child to her. The woman keeps on telling everyone that this child isn't her son, but the police keeps on claiming that it is her son and is calling the woman crazy. The worst about all this, is that the movie is inspired from a true story! Once can only imagine what that mother had to go through. Just imagine all the emotional rollercoaster from your son disappearing, the police trying to persuade you that a random boy is indeed your son, then you're transferred in a mental facility because the cops beleive that you're crazy and delusional for not wanting that little boy in your house.The film is emotionally gripping, and at times very disturbing.

On Saturday, we went to see Saw V. I don't like horror movies at all but I've always been amazed by the charachter of the Jigsaw Killer in the SAW series. Jigsaw is a mysterious person who kidnaps people he sees as wasting their lives and attempts to "save" them by administering various inhumane tests. As opposed to other killers, Jigsaw does not actually intend to kill his subjects. The purpose of his traps is to see if the subject has the will to survive, and thus inflict enough psychological trauma for the subject to appreciate their life and save themselves from their own demons. Unfortunately, the tests are so severe that hardly does any of his victims survive. The movie begs the question of how much pain we would be willing to take in order to survive! I pictured myself being one of the victims of jigsaw and wondered if I'd have enough strenght to pass the test or if I would just give up and die right there and then. What would you do if you were kidnapped by a serial killer? Would you just recite your suras and wait for death? or would you fight for your life?