Khane-ye doust kodjast (Persian, خانه دوست کجاست, Where Is the Friend's Home?; 1987) \
Directed and written by Abbas Kiarostami
This film is the first of Kiarostami's Koker trilogy. Just like its successors, it brings to the fore the day to day living, beliefs and trappings of a typical Iranian in its poor countrysides. This time, it looks at it from the eyes of a young school boy, Ahmadpoor.
Directed and written by Abbas Kiarostami
This film is the first of Kiarostami's Koker trilogy. Just like its successors, it brings to the fore the day to day living, beliefs and trappings of a typical Iranian in its poor countrysides. This time, it looks at it from the eyes of a young school boy, Ahmadpoor.
He has a big burden on his shoulders. He had brought home his friend Reza's writing book by mistake. And he is worried for his friend. His teacher had specifically told Reza that he would be expelled from school if he persistently neglects to finish his school homework. So, as a loyal friend, Ahmad feels duty-bound to pass the book to him.
The trouble is that Ahmad's overworked mother keeps asking him to mind his baby kid and do chores around the house. His pleas to his busy mother are drowned in the wailing of the crying child. So, when his mother asks him to buy bread, he makes a dash to his friend's house. Herein lies another problem. Reza lives in another area. Nobody seems to know the whereabout, like as if the adults would know about the whereabout of the kids! It is worse when he does not know his surname and his address.
The trouble is that Ahmad's overworked mother keeps asking him to mind his baby kid and do chores around the house. His pleas to his busy mother are drowned in the wailing of the crying child. So, when his mother asks him to buy bread, he makes a dash to his friend's house. Herein lies another problem. Reza lives in another area. Nobody seems to know the whereabout, like as if the adults would know about the whereabout of the kids! It is worse when he does not know his surname and his address.
After much running around meeting different characters, Ahmad returns home disappointed. So as a good friend, he does his friend's homework and passes it to him at school. And saves the day!
It is the same story over the years; the adults think that the kids are having such a cushy time and that they (the adults) had it bad, and the kids think that adults just do not understand their urgency! The adults would say, "small things excite small mind". On the children's end, those little things are the very ones that shape their world. This, my friend, is called generational gap.
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