Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Review of "Children of Heaven"

Just finished watched Children of Heaven, the story is about an unintentional loss of Zahra shoes by Ali which is her elder brother. Ali which is on his way home, loses her sister just repaired shoes. The loss of the shoes cast gloom of concern on the innocent face of the siblings who do not want to share the news with their monetarily distressed, faithful parents.
After much pondering, they come up with a plan, Zahra to wear Ali's shoes in the morning and hand them off to Ali for him to attend his evening classes.
The whole movie revolves around this inexpensive footwear which is not of much significance to countless resourceful. To Zahra, its a disgrace to her for wearing a boy sneakers in a girl's schools where others like her were wearing fancy colourful shoes.This uncomfortable arrangements resulting in some anxious moments, delightful mishaps and one adventure after another.

In need of getting a new pair of shoes for her sister Zahra, Ali entered a competition, a marathon competition to be exact which the third prize is a pair of new sneakers. Despite some problems, Ali's only ultimate wish is to see Zahra smile, in order to do so, he tried his best to win third is the competition but accidentally, he finished first.
In a strange twist of fate, he wins the first prize which is something different from sneakers.